Culture Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed.

— 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

“When civilization is strong and widespread enough, "culture" will appear and take care of itself.”

— John Lukacs

“the veneer of civilization is exceedingly thin”

— Karin Tansek

“Civilization is but a thin veneer stretched across the passions of the human heart. And civilization doesn't just happen; we have to make it…

— Bill Moyers

A civilization that only looks inward will stagnate. We have to keep looking outward; we have to keep finding new avenues for human endeavor…

— John L. Phillips

“The veneer of civilization is extremely thin.”

— Charles Cook M.D

The possible signs of a coming collapse are the same as the greatest strengths of Western civilization: democracy, capitalism, the generally peaceful linking of…

— Arthur Demarest

Civilization must stand up and combat the current collapse of governance, the rise of violence, and the spread of chaos and fear in many…

— Rudy Giuliani

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

In the end, the character of a civilization is encased in its structures.

— Frank Gehry

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