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“Societies everywhere have a tendency to construct a genealogically useful past for themselves in which desirable versions of their history are favored and unwanted…

— Tudor Parfitt

“Closing the dictionary and opening any history of civilizations, the curious reader might consider the characteristics of societies in decay. At the meeting point…

— John Ralston Saul

Most societies wipe themselves out and it's interesting to read about the last days of past civilizations. You'll note that the last days of…

— Rush Limbaugh

What is a society without a heroic dimension?

— Jean Baudrillard

For we know when a nation goes down and never comes back, when a society or a civilization perishes, one condition may always be…

— Carl Sandburg

Each time these pioneers expanded into new realms, they discovered the old ways wouldn't work. Whenever a new domain was inhabited by humans, old…

— Rick Tumlinson

It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.

— Joseph Campbell

Both individuals and societies tell themselves stories to simplify and make sense of the messy chaos of reality.

— Adam Curtis

The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history.

— John F. Kennedy

All earlier pluralist societies destroyed themselves because no one took care of the common good. They abounded in communities but could not sustain community,…

— Peter Drucker

Human societies as temporally and spatially far-flung as the Mesopotamians, Mayans, and Easter Islanders likely came to ruin by expanding beyond the capacity of…

— William E. Rees

A people without the memories of heroic suffering and sacrifices are a people without a history.

— John Brown Gordon