Cultural decline is not inevitable.

If cleverness has often been a sign of decadence throughout history, the attempt to be too clever by half is an even more reliable…

— Bill Kristol

The decline of violence isn't a steady inclined plane from an original state of maximal and universal bloodshed. Technology, ideology, and social and cultural…

— Steven Pinker

When the 2008 victory of Barack Obama and the defeat of grumpy old John McCain began looking, um, inevitable, I started fielding inquiries about…

— Rick Perlstein

As I get older, I find myself getting angrier and angrier. Doubtless, change itself, not to mention physical decline and inevitable petty tragedies of…

— William T. Vollmann

The decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the cause of the destruction…

— Edward Gibbon

“Overall, it seems that we have to accept that Western civilization will decline. It is, essentially, inevitable.”

— Bruce Charlton

The world is getting more connected through technology and travel. Cuisines are evolving. Some people are scared of globalization, but I think people will…

— John Mackey

In the first speech I delivered as health secretary, I made one thing perfectly clear: we need a cultural shift in the NHS: from…

— Andrew Lansley

K-pop itself is not just a music genre, but a whole cultural phenomenon.

— Lee Tae-min

While we welcome people of all faiths in America we cannot be so naive as to expect all countries to do the same. But…

— Michael Huffington

Affirmative action was designed to recognize the uniquely difficult journey of African-Americans. This policy was justifiable and understandable, even to those who came from…

— Jim Webb

“It has become a cultural norm in Jewish families for parents to bring up their children to value wealth.”

— H.W. Charles

The most successful cultural diplomacy strategy integrates people-to-people or arts/culture/media-to-people interactions into the basic business of diplomacy. The programs in Afghanistan, Egypt, and Iran…

— Cynthia P. Schneider

Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural…

— Aberjhani

We have never escaped a certain male cultural desire for women's silence.

— Mary Beard