Century Quote by Samuel P. Huntington

The West will continue to conquer peoples, even if it means a confrontation with another civilization, Islam, firmly entrenched where it was 1,400 years ago.

— Silvio Berlusconi

“The Decline of Western Civilization Part II”

— Anonymous

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

— Niall Ferguson

Western Civilization has been in a state of decline since the Edwardian age, say 1910. That was the height of Greco-Roman European civilization. Then…

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Civilization in its present form hasn't got long.

— James Lovelock

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

For 200 years, the West has been so dominant in the world that it's not really needed to understand other cultures, other civilizations. Because,…

— Martin Jacques

The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance.

— Pierre Schaeffer

The American West is just arriving at the threshold of its greatness and growth. Where the West of yesterday is glamorized in our fiction,…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Civilization may progress, human nature will remain the same throughout all ages.

— H. P. Blavatsky

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