Challenge Quote by Thomas P. Campbell

The civilization you sit in ... is now obvious in crisis, perhaps death pangs, twisting grotesquely like a dying animal, swirling down the garbage…

— Peter Kreeft

“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

“Civilization is the name we give to the interaction of human beings in a very creative way, when, as it were, a critical mass…

— Anonymous

Civilizations, I believe, come to birth and proceed to grow by successfully responding to successive challenges. They break down and go to pieces if…

— Arnold J. Toynbee

“You have your own stories, the dramatic and more ordinary moments where what has gone wrong becomes an opening to more of yourself and…

— Krista Tippett

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

In the first half of the 20th Century, we lived through human disasters on a scale unimaginable. The Holocaust was once suggested would be…

— Ian Mcewan

When we open our minds to the unlimited creative power, we will call forth abundance and see and experience a whole new world.

— Rhonda Byrne

A civilization that only looks inward will stagnate. We have to keep looking outward; we have to keep finding new avenues for human endeavor…

— John L. Phillips

Every single one of us is a little civilization built on the ruins of any number of preceding civilizations, but with our own variant…

— Marilynne Robinson

Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and…

— Albert Einstein

Here among the constant ruins and rebuilding of civilizations lies the coexistence of diversity and intolerance.

— David K. Shipler