Quotes About Cultural Decay

#1. This is not the place to anticipate the discussion, but two things may usefully be said. First, all but the most sanguine pluralists admit that there are immense dangers ahead and that signs of cultural decay abound.

D. A. Carson

#2. In this way of thinking, the fact that women show a lot of skin or that men curse in public is not a sign of cultural decay. On the contrary, it's a sign that they live in a society that is so civilized that they don't have to fear being harassed or assaulted in response.

Steven Pinker

#3. Without cunning, there is no innovation. Without ambition, there is no accomplishment.

J.K. Rowling

#4. [You write out of the] desire to seem clever, to be talked about, to be remembered after death, etc., etc., etc. It is humbug to pretend this is not a motive and a strong one.

George Orwell

#5. I'm bidin' my time,
'Cause that's the kinda guy I'm.

Ira Gershwin

#6. If we do not live where we work and when we work we are wasting our lives and our work too.

Wendell Berry

#7. Should one point out that from ancient times decline in courage has been considered the beginning of the end?

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#8. How oft, in nations gone corrupt,
And by their own devices brought down to servitude,
That man chooses bondage before liberty.
Bondage with ease before strenuous liberty.

John Milton

#9. A dog trusts deeply and so is easily betrayed.

Charlotte Gray

#10. People who are not on Facebook are face to face.

Amit Abraham

#11. I was obsessed with Tupac - like eat, sleep, breathe Tupac. During this obsessive love affair, I dressed the part.

Priyanka Chopra

#12. India is not, as people keep calling it, an underdeveloped country, but rather, in the context of its history and cultural heritage, a highly developed one in an advanced state of decay.

Shashi Tharoor

#13. A big chunk of Western civilization, consciously or otherwise, has given the impression that it's dying to surrender to somebody, anybody. Reasonably enough, Islam figures: Hey, why not us?

Mark Steyn

#14. She had been so vulnerable, and Norah wanted only to protect her. But that vulnerability was tied to a massive mistake, a perception of herself too damaged to love. If Norah got anything from this book, it's that we're all damaged. The tragedy is letting it define you.

Ellen Meister

#15. I'm really in no danger of being perceived as a famous movie actor!

Lyle Lovett

#16. Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.

Arnold Joseph Toynbee

#17. The worst is feeling worthless.

Donald Glover

#18. The First Amendment says keep government out of religion. It doesn't say keep religion out of government.

Rand Paul

#19. A spa hotel? It's like a normal hotel, only in reception there's a picture of a pebble.

Rhod Gilbert

#20. Having a conscience now is a grief-soaked proposition

Stephen Jenkinson

#21. Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.

Arnold Joseph Toynbee

#22. A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.

Phyllis Diller

#23. Our clear goal must be the advancement of the white race and separation of the white and black races. This goal must include freeing of the American media and government from subservient Jewish interests.

David Duke

#24. After college I got a job and started working. This new career had absolutely nothing to do with my degree.

Jason Najum