Civilization Quote by Scott Westerfeld

There are messages about civilisations and we are trying to be true to history as much as possible. We wanted all this to gel…

— Mel Gibson

Civilization in certain respects is as inadequate as it was a thousand years ago.

— Gertrude Atherton

Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Before we can build a stable civilization worthy of humanity as a whole, it is necessary that each historical civilization should become conscious of…

— Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

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

— Charles Krauthammer

Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

They do not understand the fragility of civilization and the constant nearness of savage nature.

— Camille Paglia

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 is always threatened from below, by patterns of belief and emotion that may once have been useful to our ancestors, but that are…

— Roger Scruton

That complacency and that willingness to give yourself over to a larger power structure is how civilizations destroy themselves. And I just hope people…

— Karyn Kusama

The destruction that barbarians leave behind has a grim fascination, doesn't it? We're reminded how thin is the veneer of civilization.

— Dean Koontz

For we know when a nation goes down and never comes back, when a society or a civilization perishes, one condition may always be…

— Carl Sandburg