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“If the Negro is not careful he will drink in all the poison of modern civilization and die from the effects of it.”

Ifs Dies Modern Effects Drink Civilization Careful Poison Modern Civilization

Book:The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans

Source: The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans

“The process by which civilization, as an abstract entity distinct from the societies in which it is embodied, dies or is reborn is a very significant one.”

Dies Process Civilization Significant Abstract Entity Reborn

Author:Carroll Quigley

“So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of individual pleasure. A civilization is born stoic and dies epicurean.”

Should Ends Dies Individual Born Pleasure Civilization Pursuit Stoicism Unbelief Stoic Scepticism Undisciplined Epicurean

Author:Will Durant

“Nations, like individuals, live and die; but civilization cannot die.”

Dies Individual Nations Civilization

Book:Life & Writings of Joseph Mazzini

Source: Life & Writings of Joseph Mazzini

“Africa is never the same to anyone who leaves it and returns again. It is not a land of change, but it is a land of moods and its moods are numberless. It is not fickle, but because it has mothered not only men, but races, and cradles not only cities, but civilizations - and seen them die, and seen new ones born again - Africa can be dispassionate, indifferent, warm, or cynical, replete with the weariness of too much wisdom.”

Men Dies Born Race Cities Too Much Land Return Civilization Warm Mood Cynical Indifferent Cradle Born Again Weariness Fickle Dispassionate

Author:Beryl Markham

“The time is approaching when we shall consider it abhorrent to our civilization to allow a human being to die in prolonged agony which we should mercifully end in any other creature.”

Should Humans Ends Dies Human Beings Civilization Creatures Agony Abhorrent

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Illustrated)

“That's what civilization sometimes did to threats, real or perceived. They walled them off. Us against them. Survival of the fittest. You die so I can live.”

I Can Real Sometimes Dies Civilization Survival Threat Survival Of The Fittest

Book:The Innocent

Source: The Innocent

“At last, in the gray dawn of Civilization the fire in the Soul dies down. The dwindling powers rise to one more, half-successful, effort of creation, and produce the Classicism that is common to all dying Cultures. The soul thinks once again, and in Romanticism looks back piteously to its childhood; then finally, weary, reluctant, cold, it loses its desire to be, and, as in Imperial Rome, wishes itself out of the overlong daylight and back in the darkness of protomysticism in the womb of the mother in the grave.”

Source: The decline of the West