Great saying by great authors Quote by Ezra Pound

“As historian Arnold Toynbee (1889–1975) noted, civilizations rarely die simply from external assault; they are first hollowed out by internal moral decline. “Civilizations,” Toynbee…

— Carrie Gress

Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Fortunately, at the last hour, there were always a few soldiers to save Civilization.

— Oswald Spengler

They said their sufferings were great on the passage, and several of their number had died.

— Lewis Tappan

Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.

— Joseph Wood Krutch

This is our world now, and those ancient people are dead.

— Chuck Palahniuk

... it is a matter of civilizing everyone or not being civilized at all: the decay has always come from a partial civilization.

— Freya Stark

“They ruined their environment, and their civilization collapsed. You'd think their descendants would have learned not to kill the earth that feeds them, but…

— Nancy Farmer

It seemed to me,' said Wonko the Sane, 'that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a…

— Douglas Adams

They were all too tightly bound together, men and women, creatures wild and tame, flowers, fruits and leaves, to ask that any one be…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Of the twenty or so civilizations known to modern Western historians, all except our own appear to be dead or moribund, and, when we…

— Arnold J. Toynbee