Last forever Quote by Lindsey Fairleigh

“We have been shirking too long, and that's unworthy of a great civilization. To see off the new Dark Ages will be tough and…

— Mark Steyn

“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

“[I would] rather discover one cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.”

— Democritus

“He tells us how the Persians were felled, how the Romans collapsed because their rulers forgot how their parents gained them an empire. He…

— Pierce Brown

“I loved that the Iranians never quite did what you thought they were going to do, or even, what you wanted them to do.…

— Lois Pryce

“The advent of civilization--an overly optimistic word--didn't change things as much as one might think, because no matter how large a city or empire…

— Gene Doucette

“Their history wasn’t so far off the mean track, they were going through what a thousand other civilizations had gone through, and no doubt…

— Iain M. Banks

“What history gives us leaves upon us, on the contrary, the impression of decadence rather than of an advancing civilization.”

— Herman Bavinck

“Civilization was a relentless war that man was doomed to lose eventually.”

— Robert Harris

“I wondered if we could ever truly understand each other, and if not, did it matter? Maybe that was where we had been going…

— Lois Pryce

“We are ready to accept almost any explanation of the present crisis of our civilization except one: that the present state of the world…

— Friedrich A. von Hayek

“All culture, whatever significance it may have, just as all education, civilization, development, is absolutely powerless to renew the inner man.”

— Herman Bavinck