Asks Quote by Barbara Tuchman

The world isn't on a moral decline, because there was never a time when the world was particularly morally superior.

— Cord Jefferson

All testify to the coercion and sacrifice which culture imposes on man. To rely on them and deny the decline is to become even…

— Theodor Adorno

History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has…

— Douglas MacArthur

It is almost a general rule that nations do not decline gradually. Instead they fall abruptly from their greatest heights.

— Robert Payne

The nations morals are like its teeth, the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them

— George Bernard Shaw

Fain would we remain barbarians, if our claim to civilization were to be based on the gruesome glory of war.

— Anonymous

Nations have passed away and left no traces, And history gives the naked cause of it - One single simple reason in all cases;…

— Rudyard Kipling

There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.

— Will Durant

The test of the moral quality of a civilization is its treatment of the weak and powerless.

— Jerome Frank

Great nations do not succumb through lost wars, but rather through racial decay and the destruction of their internal order.

— Adolf Hitler

If our moral attitudes are entirely the result of nonrational factors, such as gut feelings and the absorption of cultural norms, they should either…

— Paul Bloom

But there are still people whose moral superiority defeats your own.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn