A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.
There are gods, but there is no God; and all gods become devils eventually.
The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.
A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
Gods always behave like the people who make them.
What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.
Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.
A pioneer destroys things and calls it civilization.
I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills.