Civilization Is Collapsing Quotes & Sayings

I have the not altogether unsatisfying impression that civilisation is collapsing around me.
Is it my age, I wonder, or the age we live in? I am not sure. Civilisations do collapse, after all, but on the other hand people grow old with rather greater frequency. — Theodore Dalrymple

A PERFUME SHOULD BE AS IMBUED WITH MEANING AS IT IS LIGHT TO WEAR. — Paco Rabanne

Our civilization will, of course, be "playing God" in an ultimate sense of the phrase: evolving a greater intelligence than currently exists on earth. It behooves us to be a considerate creator, wise to the world and its fragile nature, sensitive to the needs for stable footings that will prevent backsliding
and keep that house of cards we call civilization from collapsing. — William H. Calvin

I kind of feel like everybody knew anyway. I was on tour with a bubble gut! — Jennifer Lopez

Trust me
with women worth the being won,
The softest lover ever best succeeds. — Aaron Hill

Unless we stop the degradation of our oceans, marine ecological systems will begin collapsing and when enough of them fail, the oceans will die. And if the oceans die, then civilization collapses and we all die — Paul Watson

I can't run away when I'm scared. I always have to attack. That's how I deal with seemingly difficult things. — Will Smith

I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop dreamers through teaching. I shall always be a dreamer. — Sharon M. Draper

Growing religious fundamentalism is directly linked to globalization and to privatization. The Indian government is talking about selling its entire power sector to foreign multinationals, but when the consequences of that become hard to manage, the government immediately starts saying, "Should we build the Ram temple in Ayodhya?" Everyone goes baying off in that direction. Meanwhile, contracts are signed.
It's like a game. That's something we have to understand. It's like a pincer action. With one hand they're selling the country out to multinationals. With the other they're orchestrating this howling cultural nationalism. On the one hand you're saying that the world is a global village. On the other hand governments spend millions and millions patrolling their borders with nuclear weapons. — Arundhati Roy

You may not appreciate the value of a key until you encounter the door it locks or unlocks. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Just because I love her, it doesn't mean that I love you less. — David Eddings

If I'm tweeting about being somewhere, and I haven't replied to somebody's email from three days ago, that's quite rude. — Laura Carmichael

I'm Here On This Planet to Use my Energy to love others, For what others are Here i don't know. — Jan Jansen

The leviathan state, that monster devouring civilization in this century, is in the throes of death. This is not a wish or a prediction, but a conclusion drawn from a broad look at the trends of the last decade and a half, which, if we take the right steps, can continue on into the next century. What has happened around the world - nations states collapsing, markets outwitting planners, citizens rising up against government masters - can and is happening here at home. — Llewellyn Rockwell

I want to know what it is, this 'sin' they say I've committed. — Jun Mochizuki

The simply complete thing, then, is that which is always chosen for itself and never on account of something else. — Aristotle.

I never go see live comedy shows because I just sit in the audience thinking, "Here's what I would say. Here's what I would do if I got up there." It drives me crazy. — Anthony Jeselnik

Where I cannot be moral, my power is gone. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe