Christopher Dawson Quotes

The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.

People think that human beings have gotten worse, that because of the pressures that modern society puts on us, we've gotten worse, and we've gotten capable of doing more terrible things. I don't know if I necessarily think that that's true.

We live in an age in which the biblical-moral traditions that have guided us for centuries are increasingly being forgotten.

America has swerved from its ethical center.

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

We all understand that the debasement of a nation's coinage is very pernicious and must prove disastrous to its commerce. How much more dangerous is the debasement of the spiritual coinage!

Over the past two decades, we have clearly seen an erosion of ethical values.

A great gulf, however, has been opened between man's material advance and his social and moral progress, a gulf in which he may one day be lost if it is not closed or narrowed.

In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.

It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.

But I believe there is a decay that is eroding America, and as a result, God begins to disappear from our society.

From the subtle to the extreme, our culture and our values are under unrelenting attack from the media.

We live in an age in which there is no heroic death.

Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.

The genuine writer cannot ignore the fact that the family is losing its spiritual foundation.

We often hear that the digital age has resulted in a devaluing of time, space, and place. But I wonder if theseclaims are exaggerated.

We are the generation that came of age in an ageless society.

Time indeed changes manners and notions, and so far we must expect institutions to bend to them. But time produces also corruption of principles, and against this it is the duty of good citizens to be ever on the watch, and if the gangrene is to prevail at last, let the day be kept off as long as possible.

I think that - apart from the fields of science and medicine - we live in an age of decline. Look at the world. There is decline in morals, ideals, manners, respect, truthfulness: just about everything, in fact.

What is happening here is we are living past the age, by the millions, living past the age where cultural values make any sense at all.

We need to challenge the dominant culture: by ethics, principles and values.

Today every city, town, or village is affected by it. We have entered the Neon Civilization and become a plastic world.. It goes deeper than its visual manifestations, it affects moral matters; we are engaged, as astrophysicists would say, on a decaying orbit.

What was formerly merely sickly now becomes indecent : it is indecent to be a Christian today.

A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a reformation.