Civilization Quote by Lester R. Brown

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

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

“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

There is nothing more fragile than civilization.

— Havelock Ellis

Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed.

— Henry A. Kissinger

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

Civilization in its present form hasn't got long.

— James Lovelock

for civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized

— Rod Serling

I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills.

— Arnold J. Toynbee

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

— Joel Salatin

Nations, like individuals, live and die; but civilization cannot die.

— Giuseppe Mazzini

No true civilization can be expected permanently to continue which is not based on the great principles of Christianity.

— Tryon Edwards