Decline of civilization · Skopia

Quotes

13

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

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

The Second Coming · 1920

★ 8.9

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

Satires · 127

★ 7.3

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Books

2

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

1776★ 8.8

Suicide of the West

1964★ 5.4