Civilization Quote by Raoul Vaneigem

“Not only has there never before been a society so obsessed with the cultural artifacts of its immediate past, but there has never before…

— Simon Reynolds

Survival must come before civilization.

— Lois Wyse

A civilization is always judged in its decline.

— Melvin B. Tolson

We are living through the most exciting, challenging and most critical time in human history. Never before has so much been possible; and never…

— Peter Russell

“Civilization is always threatened from below, by patterns of belief and emotion that may once have been useful to our ancestors, but that are…

— Roger Scruton

A civilization begins to decline the moment Life becomes its sole obsession.

— Anonymous

It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a…

— Mark Twain

Civilization in certain respects is as inadequate as it was a thousand years ago.

— Gertrude Atherton

No more generations of our youth, here and all around the world, whose life is over, whose fate has been sealed, who have been…

— Bob Avakian

One of the frustrating tics of our society's progressive vanguard is the assumption that every evil it discovers was entirely invisible in the past,…

— Ross Douthat

“The cool contemplation of other people's suffering while one exhibits polished manners in a society that is deemed civil is only a shade less…

— Stjepan Mestrovic

Nothingis so ungrateful as a rising generation; yet, if there is any faintest glimmer of light ahead of us in the present, itwas kindled…

— Ellen Glasgow