Social Decline Quotes

“Societies that lack respect for animals eventually lose respect for human beings.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“Knocking TV. It's a national pastime in itself. Think in your mind of all the homes, people sitting around saying, 'What's happened to this country? Where's the level of education gone? The morality?”
― Philip K. Dick, Time Out of Joint

“The fact is that the Romans were blinded to what was happening to them by the very perfection of the material culture which they had created. All around them was solidity and comfort, a material existence which was the very antithesis of barbarism. How could they foresee the day when the Norman chronicler would marvel over the broken hypocausts of Caerleon? How could they imagine that anything so solid might conceivably disappear? Their roads grew better as their statesmanship grew worse and central heating triumphed as civilization fell.”
― Eileen Power, Medieval People

“Students at the University now lose a class for not being familiar with opinions, which but twenty years ago they would have been expelled for dreaming of.”
― William Hurrell Mallock, Every Man His Own Poet Or, The Inspired Singer's Recipe Book