Chance Quote by William S. Lind

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

— Charles Krauthammer

But the culture has failed, almost entirely, in inculcating internal controls on actions that have their origin in authority. For this reason, the latter…

— Stanley Milgram

Cultural survival is not about preservation, sequestering indigenous peoples in enclaves like some sort of zoological specimens. Change itself does note destroy a culture.…

— Wade Davis

I foresee death by culture shock.

— Woody Allen

“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

A culture that doesn't respect half its population will never prosper.

— Wafa Sultan

“Modern industrial civilization has developed within a certain system of convenient myths. The driving force of modern industrial civilization has been individual material gain,…

— Noam Chomsky

“When civilization is strong and widespread enough, "culture" will appear and take care of itself.”

— John Lukacs

Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.

— Joseph Wood Krutch

The culture stays alive, but certain parts of it die or fail, and that's very interesting to me.

— Campbell McGrath

“Cultures that do not wish to exist cannot be dissuaded from destroying themselves.”

— David P. Goldman

When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots. They can't get away with their abuse. They can't get away with…

— Cornel West