Quotes · Skopia

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Topic·Decline of civilization✕clear

The world is becoming like a lunatic asylum run by lunatics.

David Lloyd George

Observer · 1933

★ 1.0

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.

Arnold J. Toynbee

1947

★ 1.8

Film · Dystopian (film) · Crime (film) · Dystopian · Crime

It's a stinking world because there's no law and order anymore! It's a stinking world because it lets the young get on to the old, like you done. Oh, it's no world for an old man any longer. What sort of a world is it at all? Men on the moon, and men spinning around the earth, and there's not no attention paid to earthly law and order no more.

A Clockwork Orange · 1971

★ 1.9

It is closing time in the gardens of the West and from now on an artist will be judged only by the resonance of his solitude or the quality of his despair.

1950

★ 3.4

Egypt's might is tumbled down Down a-down the deeps of thought; Greece is fallen and Troy town, Glorious Rome hath lost her crown, Venice' pride is nought. But the dreams their children dreamed Fleeting, unsubstantial, vain Shadowy as the shadows seemed Airy nothing, as they deemed, These remain.

Egypt's Might is Tumbled Down · 1908

★ 3.5

The Roman world is falling, yet we hold our heads erect instead of bowing our necks.

396

★ 3.7

Political literature

The worst have lost their fear and the best have lost their hope.

The Origins of Totalinarianism · 1951

★ 3.8

What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.

Margaret Mitchell

Gone with the Wind · 1936

★ 4.5

The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things-bread and circuses!

Satires · 127

★ 7.0

Only two things does he anxiously wish for-bread and circuses.

Satires · 127

★ 7.3

The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

The Second Coming · 1920

★ 8.9

This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.

1925

★ 9.1

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.

The Second Coming · 1920

★ 9.6