Chaos Quote by Niall Ferguson

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

The thing about the end of the world is that not just the West collapses, the whole world does.

— Douglas Coupland

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

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

For 200 years, the West has been so dominant in the world that it's not really needed to understand other cultures, other civilizations. Because,…

— Martin Jacques

It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is…

— Samuel P. Huntington

Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed.

— Henry A. Kissinger

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

In the West you have every opportunity for civilization to triumph.

— Joseph Brodsky

“Do you think Western Civilization has come to an end? "We are clearly going through a cultural crisis at the moment. It's a phase…

— Krzysztof Kieślowski

The civilization of the West, which was brilliant by virtue of its scientific perfection for a long time, and which subjugated the whole world…

— Hassan al-Banna

In the end, what brings civilizations down is when the elites lose confidence in the rightness of their cause.

— Charles Krauthammer