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There are three influences which appear to Us to have the chief place in effecting this downgrade movement of society. These are-first, the distaste…

— Pope Leo XIII

The Greeks put us to shame not only by their simplicity, which is foreign to our age; they are at the same time our…

— Friedrich Schiller

In every civilization, life grows easier. Men grow lazier in consequence. We have a picture of what happened to the individual Greek. (I cannot…

— Edith Hamilton

“When any individual or collection of individuals acts in disobedience to the moral order, short-term gratification may be experienced; but such behavior produces an…

— Ronald H. Nash

When under the influence of certain (or some) reasons (or causes) (alcohol, war, etc - added Spir here) the low instincts are unbridled (or…

— African Spir

Guilt starts as a feeling of failure.

— Frank Herbert

“Human history is the ancient story of the umbilical conflict between a lone individual versus a cabalistic society. A love-hate relationship defines our personal…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

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

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

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

— Anonymous

“The Greeks would, as it were, devote festivals to all their passions and evil natural inclinations… they took these human, all too human aspects…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“when we do what is known to be wrong, two negative things happened. First, we feel guilt and this guilt eats away confidence. Second,…

— David J. Schwartz