Chiefs Quote by Pope Leo XIII

Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result…

— Janice Rogers Brown

The chief misery of the decline of the faculties, and a main cause of the irritability that often goes with it, is evidently the…

— Charles Horton Cooley

A society which abandons children and the elderly severs its roots and darkens its future.

— Pope Francis

As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first it withdraws us from active…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

As the society has gotten larger and more complex, individuals have lost their ability to influence any of the institutions that affect their lives.

— Robert Teeter

Society itself is responsible for the degradation.

— Wole Soyinka

The old Greeks dwelt on the tendency of human affairs to drift downwards irresistibly to unhappiness. Guilt - that is, untoward and often involuntary…

— Richard Jefferies

The way of acquiescence leads to moral and spiritual suicide. The way of violence leads to bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Since the State thrives on what it expropriates, the general decline in production that it induces by its avarice foretells its own doom. Its…

— Frank Chodorov

DEGRADATION, n. One of the stages of moral and social progress from private station to political preferment.

— Ambrose Bierce

'Movement is life;' and it is well to be able to forget the past, and kill the present by continual change.

— Jules Verne

Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values.

— Anonymous