Suicide Quote by Jared Diamond

“But what factor, or combination of factors, may have caused the famine(s) in the Eastern Mediterranean during these decades remains uncertain. Elements that might…

— Eric H. Cline

“offers numerous cautionary tales of kingdoms, cultures, and empires that squandered their soil and found themselves with nothing left to live on. From the…

— Judith D. Schwartz

“They ruined their environment, and their civilization collapsed. You'd think their descendants would have learned not to kill the earth that feeds them, but…

— Nancy Farmer

“Surely it is obvious enough, if one looks at the whole world, that it is becoming daily better cultivated and more fully peopled than…

— Tertullian

“On re-entering cultivated lands, the agitation, perplexity, and turmoil of civilization oppressed and suffocated us; the air seemed to fail us, and we felt…

— Évariste Régis Huc

“The first plague-spot is the accumulation of wealth in few hands, and the selfish withdrawal of its possessors from the life of the community.…

— Alexander MacLaren

Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and their lack of public spirit made their excellent private…

— T. E. Lawrence

“they had thrived on Earth for millions of years, but their own waste killed them.”

— Philip Plait

“This suggests that Palestine already had begun to suffer the soil erosion that during the centuries of Arab cultivation reduced it from the one-time…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“In the nineteenth century, one hundred years before a country called Qatar existed, Emile Durkheim, the French sociologist, wrote of “anomic suicide.” It’s what…

— Eric Weiner

“As historian Arnold Toynbee (1889–1975) noted, civilizations rarely die simply from external assault; they are first hollowed out by internal moral decline. “Civilizations,” Toynbee…

— Carrie Gress

“from its beginning, Egypt was a densely settled agricultural community. Its soil was rich, and because farming necessarily ceased during the months of the…

— Norman F. Cantor