Paul M.M. Cooper > Quotes

“some want a god who doesn't carry a sword”
― Paul M.M. Cooper, River of Ink

“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

“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

“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

“I could find a little seed like this in a broken pot and that could be worth more than any treasure. We could trace its path back through ancient trade routes, decode its DNA, paint a picture of the world as it was all those years ago. Sometimes the rubbish dumps of ancient people are more interesting than their palaces. That’s why the looting hurts us so much. People disturb the objects, take them out of their context. They break the story that’s been waiting for thousands of years to be told.”
― Paul M.M. Cooper, All Our Broken Idols

“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

“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

“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 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

“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

“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

“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

“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