Behinds Quote by H. G. Wells

If the case be such indeed, that all mankind are by nature in a state of total ruin, then, doubtless,the great salvation by Christ…

— Jonathan Edwards

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.

— George Bernard Shaw

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

Near the gates and within two cities there will be scourges the like of which was never seen: famine within plague, people put out…

— Nostradamus

Ruin is when man-made has become part of nature.

— Marco Casagrande

Mankind has survived all catastrophes. It will also survive modern medicine.

— Gerhard Kocher

Human societies as temporally and spatially far-flung as the Mesopotamians, Mayans, and Easter Islanders likely came to ruin by expanding beyond the capacity of…

— William E. Rees

The effect of civilization is to impose human law upon environment until it becomes machine-like in its regularity. The objectionable is eliminated, the inevitable…

— Jack London

...What will the present chaos lead to? How will it all end? It can only end in one way. Mankind will be sick of…

— Meher Baba

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon…

— Anonymous

Civilization is a disease which is almost invariably fatal.

— William Ralph Inge