Apathy Quote by Will Durant

... it is a matter of civilizing everyone or not being civilized at all: the decay has always come from a partial civilization.

— Freya Stark

Without adventure civilization is in full decay.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Civilizations are built by the ceaseless toil of a succession of generations. With softness and sloth, civilizations succumb. Let us beware of decadence.

— Rajiv Gandhi

To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.

— George Orwell

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.

— Arnold J. Toynbee

Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

A civilization is always judged in its decline.

— Melvin B. Tolson

If, then, this civilization is to be saved, if it is not to be submerged by centuries of barbarism, but to secure the treasures…

— Johan Huizinga

“Closing the dictionary and opening any history of civilizations, the curious reader might consider the characteristics of societies in decay. At the meeting point…

— John Ralston Saul

Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

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

— H. P. Blavatsky