Civilization Quote by Ralph Adams Cram

It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

Theories of art carry the seeds of their own destruction.

— Steven Pinker

The process by which civilization, as an abstract entity distinct from the societies in which it is embodied, dies or is reborn is a…

— Carroll Quigley

Creation, like destruction, always seems to get a little out of hand; otherwise it could hardly be called creative.

— Babs Deal

Beneath the surface, unnoticed by many, an even deeper force was at work—the rise of creativity as a fundamental economic driver, and the rise…

— Richard Florida

“Conceive a world-society developed materially far beyond the wildest dreams of America. Unlimited power, derived partly from the artificial disintegration of atoms, partly from…

— Olaf Stapledon

Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systemization.

— Jacques Ellul

“The problem with all of this, as historians advise us, is that the institutionalization of the systems that produce the values upon which a…

— Butler Shaffer

The creative process is like music which takes root with extraordinary force and rapidity

— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

The perennial gale of creative destruction

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

I think the human race made a big mistake at the beginning of the industrial revolution, we leaped for the mechanical things, people need…

— Andre Norton

Art, indeed, began with abstraction.

— Sigfried Giedion