Decadence Quote by Anonymous

“Closing the dictionary and opening any history of civilizations, the curious reader might consider the characteristics of societies in decay. At the meeting point…

— John Ralston Saul

The defenders of the status quo often masquerade as the preservers of harmony.

— Mark Sheppard

The easily ridiculed, so-so status quo often hides Herculean efforts by those whom we take for granted, and who, working in the shadows, guarantee…

— Victor Davis Hanson

Anthropologists have often described what happens to a primitive society when its spiritual values are exposed to the impact of modern civilisation. Its people…

— Carl Jung

“In a hyper materialist environment where everything is reduced to mere economic considerations, what we deem to be important is often trivial, a temporary…

— Cory Bernardi

In this century we have made remarkable material progress, but basically we are the same as we were thousands of years ago. Our spiritual…

— Dalai Lama

The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history.

— John F. Kennedy

“There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present. Underneath all civilization, ancient or modern, moved…

— Will Durant

Tradition: how the vitality of the past enriches the life of the present.

— T. S. Eliot

Modern value-neutral society (Gesellschaft rather than Gemeinschaft) is systematized predation tempered not by conscience or values but rather merely by a system of law,…

— Kenny Smith

It is the idea of 'People' to treat its material as if it were history and, what is more, as if it were the…

— George W. S. Trow

“This conglomeration of decayed antiquity, collected with the disease of greed, surely invites our charity. It would be better to forget these trumpery ideas,…

— Austin Osman Spare