Decline Quote by Bruce Charlton

“Cultural decline is not inevitable.”

— National Endowment for the Arts

“Civilization is but a thin veneer stretched across the passions of the human heart. And civilization doesn't just happen; we have to make it…

— Bill Moyers

“Also, a large swath of our intellectual culture is loath to admit that there could be anything good about civilization, modernity, and Western society.”

— Steven Pinker

“The Decline of Western Civilization Part II”

— Anonymous

“What history gives us leaves upon us, on the contrary, the impression of decadence rather than of an advancing civilization.”

— Herman Bavinck

“We are ready to accept almost any explanation of the present crisis of our civilization except one: that the present state of the world…

— Friedrich A. von Hayek

“The civilized world is ahead of us; we have no choice but to catch up.”

— Elif Shafak

“But it seemed like the more we advanced, the more the future looked impossible, making us return to the more radical times in the…

— Christian Lacroix

“When things flourish they decline.”

— Lao Tzu

“Today our concern must be with the future. For the world is changing. The old era is ending. The old ways will not do.”

— John F. Kennedy

“You say that this society will come to an end, because societies always have done so. I wonder whether they have ended because they…

— Idries Shah

“We have been shirking too long, and that's unworthy of a great civilization. To see off the new Dark Ages will be tough and…

— Mark Steyn