Civilization Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

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

— Freya Stark

Every great civilization has crumbled, but their knowledge still remains - Kalyani Rajalingham

— Kalyani Rajalingham

Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Each succeeding civilization forgets its predecessor. Civilizations are ghouls.

— Gutzon Borglum

Civilization has always been a bust.

— Peter Fonda

A civilization is always judged in its decline.

— Melvin B. Tolson

“And that through all the ups and downs, nothing really worthwhile is ever permanently lost, even though its creators may be long forgotten. When,…

— Paul Kriwaczek

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

There is one great fact, characteristic of this our nineteenth century, a fact which no party dares deny. On the one hand, there have…

— Karl Marx

It is clear that every civilization undergoes a process of historical change. We can see that a civilization comes into existence, passes through a…

— Carroll Quigley

We do not have thousands of years to unlearn the wrong patters that were established over thousands of years. The exponential speed-up of these…

— Rosemary Radford Ruether