Habits Quote by Frank Herbert

“Perhaps that is the greatest crime of conquest--that a civilization is denied the right to evolve beyond its own embarrassment.”

— Neal Shusterman

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

— Will Durant

“We have conquered everything, and everything has slipped out of our grasp.”

— Victor Serge

“One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas. a”

— Victor Hugo

“For over twenty-five centuries we’ve been bearing the weight of superb and heterogeneous civilizations, all from outside, none made by ourselves, none that we…

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

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

— Herman Bavinck

“The Empire is a force unprecedented in any age, poised to end history itself. No one should confront it alone.”

— Alexander Freed

“Right now, is not the time to strike at the Romans, but it will come, and we will all rise and wipe out the…

— Michael G. Kramer

“It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built up upon a renunciation of instinct…”

— Sigmund Freud

“There’s no better sign that a civilization has reached its height than the awareness, in its members, of the futility of all effort, given…

— Fernando Pessoa

“Land, domination, pre-emptive attacks - all just excuses, mundane justifications that do nothing but disguise the simple distinction. They are not us. We are…

— Steven Erikson

“Though our survival system doesn’t always work to our advantage, it is a mistake to think we should conquer the primitive self completely.”

— Kelly McGonigal