Moral Decline Quotes

#1. Then, as they began to decline, they all experienced some peculiar similarities: an inordinate emphasis on sports and entertainment, a fixation with lifestyles of the rich and famous, political corruption, and the loss of a moral compass.

Ben Carson

#2. It is wise to avoid militants of all plumage, to trust only the fanatically unfanatic

Frederick Franck

#3. Funny how much we all suffer trying to spare others a bit of pain.

Michael LaRocca

#4. Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery.

Paul Valery

#5. I don't believe our country will last the way we know it much longer unless there's a change. And we just continue this moral decline going down, and the only hope, I believe, is God. We just hope and pray that maybe he'll hear our prayers and give us some godly leadership.

Franklin Graham

#6. These days - with the decline of the traditional churches - I'm concerned about where we obtain some form of moral direction.

John Scott

#7. As people age, they confuse changes in themselves with changes in the world, and changes in the world with moral decline - the illusion of the good old days.

Steven Pinker

#8. ...the Supreme Court made several liberal decisions in the 1970s, indicating the moral decline of the nation as a whole.

Kurt Grussendorf

#9. If you don't start, you're finished.

Max McKeown

#10. If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political.

Stephen Bayley

#11. This was long before the term 'single-parent family' came into use; back then it was a 'broken home' ...

Julian Barnes

#12. If there is a knower of tongues here, fetch him; There's a stranger in the city And he has many things to say.

Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#13. As people ages, they confuse changes in themselves with changes in the world, and changes in the world with moral decline - the illusion of the good old days. And so every generation believes that the kids today are degrading the language and taking civilization down with it

Steven Pinker

#14. Human beings, for some reason or another, like symmetry. You leave a bunch of them next to a jungle for a couple of days and you'll come back to find an ornamental garden. We take stones and turn them into the Taj Mahal or St. Paul's Cathedral.

Mark Forsyth

#15. To live is to not think.

Fernando Pessoa

#16. The always popular notion that the United States is in "moral decline" (a phrase favored in the pulpits and the press of both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries) rests on the assumption that Americans used to be far more religious and should strive to return to their former fidelity.

Peter Manseau

#17. I get more people approaching me about how good I was in 'Napoleon Dynamite' than being in Coldplay.

Chris Martin

#18. History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been either a spiritual awakening to overcome the moral lapse, or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster.

Douglas MacArthur