Above Quote by James A. Forbes

Ignorance, poverty, and greed must disappear so that light can prevail in all places.

— Helen Keller

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

— Niall Ferguson

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 will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend…

— Winston Churchill

I do believe that the future of civilization belongs to those who would lay emphasis on working together instead of talking about clash of…

— Manmohan Singh

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

“Sometimes, a society can see its end approaching from afar and still not be able to adapt, like the Maya; at other times, the…

— Douglas Preston

We find the light only after total defeat of our attempts to deceive and outwit it.

— Vernon Howard

I don't actually believe in a clash of civilizations. I believe in a clash of the civilized and the noncivilized.

— Madeleine Albright

Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.

— Abdelaziz Bouteflika

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

— Lester R. Brown