America Quote by Ron Suskind

“We start by going back 2,000 years. There were successful civilizations in Rome, China and later in western Europe. These leading countries expanded by…

— Edward A. Hudson

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

— Charles Krauthammer

Civilization and profit go hand in hand.

— Calvin Coolidge

Liberty built civilization. It can rebuild civilization.

— Ron Paul

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

“It had all the elements needed for an industrial revolution centuries before it would occur in Europe. Yet, for one reason or another, China…

— Gordon G. Chang

We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.

— Bill Bryson

Civilizations are built by the ceaseless toil of a succession of generations. With softness and sloth, civilizations succumb. Let us beware of decadence.

— Rajiv Gandhi

Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt, environmental crisis,…

— Muhammad Yunus

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

We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.

— Barack Obama

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