Quote by Greg Breining

“With people like that we needn't despair of civilisation,”

— John Dos Passos

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

— Bruce Charlton

“We were now in the midst of dangerous abstractions which might once more threaten further embarrassments of the kind I hoped to avoid.”

— Anthony Powell

“The tide of human desire, the desire for more and better, would overwhelm them. It would take control and drive events, as it had…

— Margaret Atwood

“Civilisation, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit.”

— Gregory David Roberts

“As civilisation advances, so does indifference.”

— Matt Haig

“Civilsation is the sleight of hand that conceals our natures from ourselves.”

— Salman Rushdie

“If we desire a certain type of civilisation and culture we must exterminate the sort of people who do not fit into it.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Wars over lands or resources that later meant nothing. The worst, over religious beliefs, which were nothing more than emotional ideas being systematically forced…

— Michael C. Grumley

“I've seen more trouble come from long engagements than from any other forms of human folly.”

— Virginia Woolf

“The most obvious and the most distinctive features of the History of Civilisation, during the last fifty years, is the wonderful increase of industrial…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

“Permanent and pervasive explanations for adversity turn minor complications into major catastrophes. They make it seem logical to give up. If,”

— Angela Duckworth