Citizens Quote by Robert McKee

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

— Emile M. Cioran

No civilization has survived the ongoing destruction of its natural support systems. Nor will ours.

— Lester R. Brown

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

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

— Henry George

Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed.

— Henry A. Kissinger

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

Civilization is an enormous improvement on the lack thereof.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous…

— Thomas Sowell

Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

If there are no books. There is no civilization.

— Thomas Cahill

Civilization is vastly overrated.

— Patricia Briggs

A pioneer destroys things and calls it civilization.

— Charles Marion Russell