Confidence Quote by Robert Tombs

“We are ready to accept almost any explanation of the present crisis of our civilization except one: that the present state of the world…

— Friedrich A. von Hayek

“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 world was arrogant and self-satisfied, but behind all this confidence there was an uneasy sense of impending disaster. The old creeds, both religious…

— John Buchan

“Many lessons can be learned from the history of Western civilization, but one of them is especially clear. Lack of involvement in the affairs…

— Jackson Spielvogel

“Science fiction writers construct an imaginary future; historians attempt to reconstruct the past. Ultimately, both are seeking to understand the present. In this essay,…

— Naomi Oreskes

We have evidence all around us in our daily analytic practice and in contemporary world history that this earth-shaking archetypal event is taking place…

— Edward F Edinger

“The Decline of Western Civilization Part II”

— Anonymous

'Let the Great World Spin' at the end talks a lot about connections and light and possibility and the fact that the world doesn't…

— Colum McCann

“Centuries of dire prophecy have taught us all to be, well, unconvinced. And there have been decades, entire scores of years when, to be…

— Scott Cairns

“But there was also a notable decline in many quarters of the world of jingoist rhetoric and puerile self-congratulatory nationalism. There was a sense…

— Carl Sagan

No doubt Western civilization has in the past been full of wars and revolutions, and the national elements in our culture, even when they…

— Christopher Dawson

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

— Charles Krauthammer