Arrogant Quote by Mary Summer Rain

In the long run, the aggressive civilizations destroy themselves, almost always. It's their nature. They can't help it.

— Carl Sagan

All the civilizations we know have been created and directed by small intellectual aristocracies, never by people in the mass. The power of crowds…

— Gustave Le Bon

Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt, environmental crisis,…

— Muhammad Yunus

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

This civilization is such that one has only to be patient and it will be self-destroyed.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I think human arrogance will be the demise of civilization.

— Adam Ferrara

No civilization, no matter how mighty it may appear to itself, is indestructible.

— Niall Ferguson

Civilizations are built by the ceaseless toil of a succession of generations. With softness and sloth, civilizations succumb. Let us beware of decadence.

— Rajiv Gandhi

Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Most societies wipe themselves out and it's interesting to read about the last days of past civilizations. You'll note that the last days of…

— Rush Limbaugh

Civilization is only a series of victories against nature.

— William Harvey

Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.

— Amos Bronson Alcott