Behavior Quote by Rush Limbaugh

It's interesting sometimes to read about the last days of past civilizations. It's hard not to notice during these readings that those last days…

— David Horowitz

“Highly organized complex societies are delicate machines. It does not take much to bring them to ruin. ‘For want of a nail…the kingdom was…

— Paul Kriwaczek

Human societies as temporally and spatially far-flung as the Mesopotamians, Mayans, and Easter Islanders likely came to ruin by expanding beyond the capacity of…

— William E. Rees

Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

I am talking about societies drained of their essence, cultures trampled underfoot, institutions undermined, lands confiscated, religions smashed, magnificent artistic creations destroyed, extraordinary possibilities…

— Aime Cesaire

Historically, if you look at great civilizations, why do they crumble? Is it because of what's outside or because of something internal? It's always…

— Phylicia Rashad

Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

The West may collapse very suddenly. Complex civilizations do that, because they operate, most of the time, on the edge of chaos.

— Niall Ferguson

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

Societies create their own history and tend to wipe out lowly beginnings, either by forgetting them or inventing totally fictitious heroic rescues.

— Isaac

On this showing, the nature of the breakdowns of civilizations can be summed up in three points: a failure of creative power in the…

— Arnold J. Toynbee

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

— Charles Krauthammer