Civilization Quote by Henry A. Kissinger

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

The precedent is that civilizations collapse, and everything's stacked up for this one to go, and it's a mess when it happens.

— Gail Bradbrook

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

— Joel Salatin

“Civilization is faces, "appearances": when these collapse, civilization collapses as well.”

— Joyce Carol Oates

All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.

— Carl Sagan

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

— Niall Ferguson

“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

No civilization has survived the ongoing destruction of its natural support systems. Nor will ours.

— Lester R. Brown

Every empire eventually falls.

— Michael Douglas

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

Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Civilization has always been a bust.

— Peter Fonda