<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # A civilization that cannot distinguish inheritance... > A civilization that cannot distinguish inheritance from truth eventually becomes a museum guarding its own mistakes. **Source:** [[articles/war with empire/Authorship of the West|Authorship of the West]], [[working/authorship-west-extraction-markup-20260922/postimages/articles/war with empire/Authorship of the West|Authorship of the West]], [[working/authorship-west-reminder-links-repair-20260922/postimages/articles/war with empire/Authorship of the West|Authorship of the West]], [[working/authorship-west-reminder-links-repair-20260922/preimages/articles/war with empire/Authorship of the West|Authorship of the West]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “A civilization that cannot distinguish inheritance from truth eventually becomes a museum guarding its own mistakes.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-civilization-cannot-distinguish-guarding-own-mistakes ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->