Break Quote by Timothy Leary

On this showing, the nature of the breakdowns of civilizations can be summed up in three points: a failure of creative power in the…

— Arnold J. Toynbee

In the end, what brings civilizations down is when the elites lose confidence in the rightness of their cause.

— Charles Krauthammer

All empires fall eventually. It is the way of things.

— Erin Morgenstern

One civilization after another has been wrecked upon the attempt to secure sufficient leadership from a single group or class.

— Herbert Hoover

“Highly organized complex societies are delicate machines. It does not take much to bring them to ruin. ‘For want of a nail…the kingdom was…

— Paul Kriwaczek

The Indians, I was now speaking of, were not content with the common Enemies that lessen and destroy their Country-men, but invented an infallible…

— John Lawson

“if the mixing of peoples was the order of empires and the ‘unmixing of peoples’ the order of nation-states, what’s on the horizon?”

— Kapka Kassabova

Empires are doomed. They become more diffuse, more broke, demagogues rule, and so I was just pointing out some similarities between past empires and…

— Dar Williams

History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?

— Christian Lous Lange

One basic formula for understanding the Community is this: 'Take five broken empires, add the sixth one later, and make one big neo-colonial empire…

— Johan Galtung

Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity.

— Eugenio Montale

I don't see tribalism ever really disappearing entirely. I just think that people are almost hardwired to identify as groups. And that sort of…

— Franklin Foer