Decline of Morality Quotes

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

... we've passed from the age of the common man to the common crook.

All great empires die from within.

The White House used to be, everybody looked up at the White House and America and everything, and now I think it's like a house of shame.

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

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

God looked down on this country because this country was founded on the rock and that rock was our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And when the storms came and the rains came, the rock, it did not move. But over the last 15 or 20 years, something began to erode.

For an adult, the world is constantly trying to clamp down on itself. Routine, responsibility, decay of institutions, corruption: this is all the world closing in.

'Death of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America.