Collapse Quote by Gail Bradbrook

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

Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed.

— Henry A. Kissinger

The West may collapse very suddenly. Complex civilizations do that, because they operate, most of the time, on the edge of chaos.

— Niall Ferguson

In the end what will happen will be what has happened whenever a civilization breaks up. The people who have brains and courage come…

— Margaret Mitchell

All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.

— Carl Sagan

No civilization on the brink of collapse has ever changed fast enough to avert collapse.

— Joel Salatin

When civilizations collide, it usually isn't the more primitive one that prevails.

— Rick Yancey

That's what History teaches us, I think, that life goes on, even though individuals die and whole civilizations crumble away: The simple things last;…

— Philip Reeve

Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Each succeeding civilization forgets its predecessor. Civilizations are ghouls.

— Gutzon Borglum

“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

“Sometimes, a society can see its end approaching from afar and still not be able to adapt, like the Maya; at other times, the…

— Douglas Preston