Cultural Degeneration Quotes

All the celebrated technological achievements of progress, including the conquest of outer space, do not redeem the twentieth century’s moral poverty, which no one could have imagined even as late as the nineteenth century.

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.

Civilization is what makes you sick.

Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.

Long, continuous periods of peace and prosperity have always brought about the physical, mental and moral deterioration of the individual.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

The domestication (the culture) of man does not go deep--where it does go deep it at once becomes degeneration (type: the Christian). The 'savage' (or, in moral terms, the evil man) is a return to nature--and in a certain sense his recovery, his cure from 'culture'.

Western culture has more need because they're so much more degenerated. They're so much more hurt, and misbalanced completely.

If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.

In civilization, as in a southern latitude, man degenerates at length, and yields to the incursion of more northern tribes.

Civilization is going down the drain, and the sooner it does, the better.