Civilization Quote by Herbert Hoover

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

— Henry George

Each civilization has its own kind of pestilence and can control it only by reforming itself.

— Rene Dubos

Every civilization depends on the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness-they cannot work…

— Frank Herbert

Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

“Highly organized complex societies are delicate machines. It does not take much to bring them to ruin. ‘For want of a nail…the kingdom was…

— Paul Kriwaczek

My historical reading of the situation is that these great monolithic empires developed, Rome, Turkey, and so forth, and they always break down when…

— Timothy Leary

In the end, what brings civilizations down is when the elites lose confidence in the rightness of their cause.

— Charles Krauthammer

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

On this showing, the nature of the breakdowns of civilizations can be summed up in three points: a failure of creative power in the…

— Arnold J. Toynbee

Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

In the long run, the aggressive civilizations destroy themselves, almost always. It's their nature. They can't help it.

— Carl Sagan

A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of…

— Sigmund Freud