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Decline of civilization13 quotes
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold. — W.B. Yeats · 1920This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper. — T.S. Eliot · 1925The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity. — W.B. Yeats · 1920Only two things does he anxiously wish for-bread and circuses. — Juvenal · 127The 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! — Juvenal · 127What 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 · 1936All 13 quotes →Societal collapse4 quotes
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold. — W.B. Yeats · 1920This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper. — T.S. Eliot · 1925The Roman world is falling, yet we hold our heads erect instead of bowing our necks. — St. Jerome · 396Egypt'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. — Mary Coleridge · 1908Moral decline2 quotes
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity. — W.B. Yeats · 1920It'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. — Tramp · 1971Decadence1 quote
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! — Juvenal · 127Decline1 quote
The world is becoming like a lunatic asylum run by lunatics. — David Lloyd George · 1933Decline of the West1 quote
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. — Cyril Connolly · 1950Disillusionment1 quote
The worst have lost their fear and the best have lost their hope. — Hannah Arendt · 1951Dissolution1 quote
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold. — W.B. Yeats · 1920End of the world1 quote
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper. — T.S. Eliot · 1925Entertainment1 quote
Only two things does he anxiously wish for-bread and circuses. — Juvenal · 127Hope1 quote
The worst have lost their fear and the best have lost their hope. — Hannah Arendt · 1951Hopelessness and despair1 quote
The worst have lost their fear and the best have lost their hope. — Hannah Arendt · 1951Impermanence1 quote
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. — Mary Coleridge · 1908Law and order1 quote
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. — Tramp · 1971Political polarization1 quote
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold. — W.B. Yeats · 1920Politics1 quote
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold. — W.B. Yeats · 1920Purpose of life1 quote
Only two things does he anxiously wish for-bread and circuses. — Juvenal · 127Roman Empire1 quote
The Roman world is falling, yet we hold our heads erect instead of bowing our necks. — St. Jerome · 396The masses1 quote
Only two things does he anxiously wish for-bread and circuses. — Juvenal · 127The world1 quote
The world is becoming like a lunatic asylum run by lunatics. — David Lloyd George · 1933Western Civilization1 quote
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. — Cyril Connolly · 1950