One civilization after another has been wrecked upon the attempt to secure sufficient leadership from a single group or class.
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What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.
Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.
All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on success in war.
When civilizations collide, it usually isn't the more primitive one that prevails.
History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?
Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.
A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.
Civilization and profit go hand in hand.
If you look at great human civilizations, from the Roman Empire to the Soviet Union, you will see that most do not fail simply due to external threats but because of internal weakness, corruption, or a failure to manifest the values and ideals they espouse.
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
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