Civilization Quote by Fernand Braudel

“Civilization is but a thin veneer stretched across the passions of the human heart. And civilization doesn't just happen; we have to make it…

— Bill Moyers

“It goes without saying that a civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has…

— Sigmund Freud

“What history gives us leaves upon us, on the contrary, the impression of decadence rather than of an advancing civilization.”

— Herman Bavinck

“Civilization could not be said to have truly ended until there were no restaurants left.”

— William Kowalski

“Civilization is perhaps nothing but a process of finding out what you cannot have.”

— Sherwood Anderson

“Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.”

— Johann von Goethe

“Civilization was like a mad dash that lasted fie thousand years. Progress begot more progress; countless miracles gave birth to more miracles; humankind seemed…

— Liu Cixin

“A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within”

— Will Durant

“Behind every civilization lies a vision and a worldview, and none is greater or more lasting than the strength of its vision.”

— Os Guinness

“Overall, it seems that we have to accept that Western civilization will decline. It is, essentially, inevitable.”

— Bruce Charlton

“No civilization has survived forever. All move toward dissolution, one after the other, like waves of the sea falling upon the shore. None, including…

— Douglas Preston

“A nation’s level of civilization can be measured by the way it treats its oldest and weakest citizens.”

— Hendrik Groen