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History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?

Civilization can never be sustainable.

Civilization in its present form hasn't got long.

Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.

Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

Civilization never stands still; if in one country it is falling back, in another it is changing, evolving, becoming more complicated, bringing fresh experience to body and mind, breeding new desires, and exploiting Nature's cupboard for their satisfaction.

Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt, environmental crisis, every single crisis. We need a civilization where we say goodbye to these things.

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.