"Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?"
- Camille Paglia
About this Quote
This quote by Camille Paglia is a cautioning to society that we might be duplicating the mistakes of the past. She is comparing our current society to late Rome, which was a period of decrease and decadence. She suggests that we are fascinated with our past splendors, and that our existing judgment elite is complacent and greedy. This is causing an absence of power to react to changing conditions, which could result in our failure. This quote is a suggestion to us to be knowledgeable about our present circumstance and to act to prevent a similar fate. We should be proactive in order to ensure that our society does not end up being complacent and powerless.
This quote is written / told by Camille Paglia somewhere between April 2, 1947 and today. She was a famous Author from USA.
The author also have 32 other quotes.
"German is more familiar now since I live part of the year in Rome and part in the German part of Switzerland. But it's not difficult to sing in German; it's difficult to feel in German. This takes time. It's a culture"
"A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art"
"All roads indeed lead to Rome, but theirs also is a more mystical destination, some bourne of which no traveller knows the name, some city, they all seem to hint, even more eternal"
