Quotes · Skopia

10 quotes

SortEditorial Year Length

Topic·Societal collapse✕clear

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.

The Second Coming · 1920

★ 9.6

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

1925

★ 9.1

Essay · Political literature

America, if eligible at all to downfall and ruin, is eligible within herself, not without.

Democratic Vistas · 1871

★ 7.6

Speech · Political speech

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

Abraham Lincoln

1838

★ 7.0

It was not the power of the Spaniards that destroyed the Aztec Empire but the disbelief of the Aztecs in themselves.

E.F. Schumacher

1962

★ 6.9

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

396

★ 3.7

Film · Survival (film) · Thriller (film) · Thriller · Survival

Machines are gonna fail and the system's gonna fail...then...then, survival. Who has the ability to survive? That's the game—survive.

Lewis (Deliverance)

Deliverance · 1972

★ 3.7

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

Poem · Epic poem

The people will live on. The learning and blundering people will live on. They will be tricked and sold and again sold And go back to the nourishing earth for rootholds.

1936

★ 3.4

Economic literature

Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.

John Maynard Keynes

1919

★ 1.9