I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills.

The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

Nothing fails like success when you rely on it too much.

On this showing, the nature of the breakdowns of civilizations can be summed up in three points: a failure of creative power in the minority, an answering withdrawal of mimesis on the part of the majority, and a consequent loss of social unity in the society as a whole.

The last stage but one of every civilisation, is characterised by the forced political unification of its constituent parts, into a single greater whole.

I believe that a religious conversion is the only way to stimulate the peoples of the industrialized nations to be willing to make sacrifices for the sake of esho funi (the oneness of self and environment). ... I wish the entire world would accept as an item of religious faith the concept of esho funi and its moral obligations.