Dystopia Quote by E.M. Forster

What I am asserting is that in this particular epoch a conjunction of historical circumstances has led to the rise of an elite of…

— C. Wright Mills

“Rather than a great tragedy, the fall of Rome was the single most beneficial event in the rise of Western civilization.”

— Rodney Stark

“Men delude themselves into thinking that the events in which they participate are of particular significance to history, but they rarely are. One empire…

— Paul S. Kemp

To deal with the true causes of war one must begin by recognizing as of prime relevancy to the solution of the problem the…

— Elihu Root

We now face the prospect of a kind of global civil war between those who refuse to consider the consequences of civilization's relentless advance…

— Al Gore

“Militarism has been by far the commonest cause of the breakdown of civilizations. The single art of war makes progress at the expense of…

— Arnold Toynbee

“The Decline of Western Civilization Part II”

— Anonymous

“Even allowing for the imperfection of myths, it is enough to make us question, for that time and ours, the excuse of progress in…

— Howard Zinn

“The community of today is the planet, not the bounded nation…patterns of coordinated agression can only break it into factions”. We are in a…

— Joseph Campbell

“Throughout the history of our civilisation, two traditions, two opposed tendencies, have been in conflict: the Roman tradition and the popular tradition, the imperial…

— Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin

“It has been said that Earthling civilization, so far, has created ten thousand wars, but only three intelligent commentaries on war—the commentaries of Thucydides,…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“The central government was a despotism tempered by military rebellion and assassination and replacement of one scurvy lot of ruling dynasts by another. But…

— Norman F. Cantor