Buddhism Quote by Frederick Lenz

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“There is no correlation between the degree of comfort enjoyed and the achievement of a civilization. On the contrary, absorption in ease is one…

— Richard M. Weaver

History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?

— Christian Lous Lange

Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt, environmental crisis,…

— Muhammad Yunus

Civilization may progress, human nature will remain the same throughout all ages.

— H. P. Blavatsky

For many societies, the journey to modernity has been painful and costly.

— Elliott Abrams

For you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrificed in the turbulence of change.

— Will Durant

Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

— Henry George

Humanity is moving in a circle. The progress in mechanical things of the past hundred years has proceeded at the cost of losing many…

— G. I. Gurdjieff

Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

“The innumerable losses of industrial civilization’s collapse will, over time, bring forth a new story and a new relationship with people, resources, things, and…

— Carolyn Baker