Awakening Quote by Douglas MacArthur

If the world suffers from mental deterioration or from moral degradation, then something goes wrong at the very root of civilization or culture. Even…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

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

— Cord Jefferson

History shows that nations are more fragile than their citizens think. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time.

— Richard Lamm

Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed. History is a tale of efforts that failed, or aspirations that weren’t realized . So,…

— Henry A. Kissinger

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

Lack of outlets, excess capacity, complete deadlock, in the end regular recurrence of national bankruptcies and other disasters-perhaps world wars from sheer capitalist despair-may…

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.

— Ma Jian

The root of a nation's misfortunes has to be sought in the moral failings of the government.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

History is a tragedy, not a morality tale.

— I. F. Stone

By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of Time and…

— John Acton

History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?

— Dick Cavett

History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness,…

— Walter Bagehot