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title: "4 Decline Moral Quotes by 4 authors"
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> [One reason for the decline in moral values is that the world has invented a new, constantly changing and undependable standard of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-b-haight/one-reason-for-the-decline-in-moral-values-is-that-the-world-has/)

[David B. Haight](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-b-haight/)

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> [Why have we had such a decline in moral climate? I submit to you that a major factor has been a change…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milton-friedman/why-have-we-had-such-a-decline-in-moral-climate-i-submit-to-you-that/)

[Milton Friedman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/milton-friedman/)

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> [If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-bayley/if-you-were-born-in-britain-after-world-war-ii-you-see-a-continuous/)

[Stephen Bayley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-bayley/)

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> [“The realization that a decline in the moral state impedes the flowering of literature is a feeling unique to the Jewish people.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rabbi-kook/the-realization-that-a-decline-in-the-moral-state-impedes-the/)

[Rabbi Kook](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rabbi-kook/)

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