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Societal collapse10 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 · 1925America, if eligible at all to downfall and ruin, is eligible within herself, not without. — Walt Whitman · 1871At 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 · 1838It was not the power of the Spaniards that destroyed the Aztec Empire but the disbelief of the Aztecs in themselves. — E.F. Schumacher · 1962The Roman world is falling, yet we hold our heads erect instead of bowing our necks. — St. Jerome · 396All 10 quotes →Decline of civilization4 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 · 1908America2 quotes
America, if eligible at all to downfall and ruin, is eligible within herself, not without. — Walt Whitman · 1871At 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 · 1838American decline2 quotes
America, if eligible at all to downfall and ruin, is eligible within herself, not without. — Walt Whitman · 1871At 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 · 1838Civilization1 quote
Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand. — John Maynard Keynes · 1919Dissolution1 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 · 1925Impermanence1 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 · 1908Political polarization1 quote
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold. — W.B. Yeats · 1920Politics1 quote
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold. — W.B. Yeats · 1920Roman Empire1 quote
The Roman world is falling, yet we hold our heads erect instead of bowing our necks. — St. Jerome · 396Self-doubt1 quote
It was not the power of the Spaniards that destroyed the Aztec Empire but the disbelief of the Aztecs in themselves. — E.F. Schumacher · 1962Survival1 quote
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) · 1972The human condition1 quote
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. — Carl Sandburg · 1936The system1 quote
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) · 1972