Chaos Quote by Victor Davis Hanson

“Successful people are inspired people; they are unwilling to accept the “status quo.”

— Asa Don Brown

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

— Charles Krauthammer

The defenders of the status quo often masquerade as the preservers of harmony.

— Mark Sheppard

Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.

— Joyce Grenfell

“To have a viable civilization, people have to have a benign government, a semblance of education, spare time, imagination, and manners”

— Jonathan Chamberlain Williams

The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe

— Walter Benjamin

To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.

— George Orwell

The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have…

— Alan Gregg

“Civilization depends on continually making the effort, of never giving in. It needs to be cared for by men of goodwill, protected from the…

— Iain Pears

From the failure of the humanist tradition to participate fully or to act decisively, civilizations may perhaps crumble or perish at the hands of…

— Louis Kronenberger

“The single greatest threat to human progress isn’t a lack of original ideas; it’s our obsession with familiarity — with status quo thinking.”

— Jen Fraser

This civilization is rapidly passing away, however. Let us rejoice or else lament the fact as much as everyone of us likes; but do…

— Anonymous