Fall of Civilizations Quotes

“What is that which is being said by that scoundrel of a Montezuma”
― Paul M.M. Cooper, Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline – An Immersive World History Based on the Global Hit Podcast

“Thereupon they surrounded the dancers. Thereupon they went among the drums. Then they struck the drummer’s arms; they severed both his hands; then they struck his neck. Far off did his neck [and head] go to fall... Of some they slashed open their backs: then their entrails gushed out. Of some they cut their heads to pieces; they absolutely pulverized their heads...and when in vain one would run”
― Paul M.M. Cooper, Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline – An Immersive World History Based on the Global Hit Podcast

“Though it is painful to burst an abscess”
― Paul M.M. Cooper, Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline – An Immersive World History Based on the Global Hit Podcast

“Desolation meets desolation. A feeling of awe succeeds to wonder. For there is nothing to relieve the mind”
― Paul M.M. Cooper, Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline – An Immersive World History Based on the Global Hit Podcast

“Each city had a god in the way that every sports team has a mascot”
― Paul M.M. Cooper, Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline – An Immersive World History Based on the Global Hit Podcast

“Out of that pressure”
― Paul M.M. Cooper, Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline – An Immersive World History Based on the Global Hit Podcast

“The story of the great flood is perhaps the oldest continuously told story”
― Paul M.M. Cooper, Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline – An Immersive World History Based on the Global Hit Podcast

“Mesopotamia is a name that in classical Greek means ‘between the rivers’—and since ancient times it has been given to the lands that lie between the rushing Tigris and the winding Euphrates rivers”
― Paul M.M. Cooper, Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline – An Immersive World History Based on the Global Hit Podcast

“In virtually all”
― Paul M.M. Cooper, Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline – An Immersive World History Based on the Global Hit Podcast

“The ruins of the past and countless imagined futures remind us that history is not a linear progression from worse to better”
― Paul M.M. Cooper, Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline – An Immersive World History Based on the Global Hit Podcast

“Each of these ruins means something different”
― Paul M.M. Cooper, Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline – An Immersive World History Based on the Global Hit Podcast