Varg Vikernes Quotes

Children of the future, watching empires fall. Madness the cup they drink from, self destruction the toll.

Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.

All you got to do is look around. This country's getting worse and worse and more and more immoral, and we're rotting from within.

It’s the end. It’s the end of the civilization. We’re going down. No, it’s sure not too attractive. Lenticels. I just hope my kids don’t live to see the last days. The things burning and people living in cellars. Violet. The only thing worse than the thought it may all come tumbling down is the thought that we may go on like this forever.

In the zone of perdition where my youth went as if to complete its education, one would have said that the portents of an imminent collapse of the whole edifice of civilization had made an appointment.

This storm you talk of . . .t will be such a one, my son, as the world has not seen before. There will be no safety by arms, no help from authority, no answer in science. It will rage till every flower of culture is trampled, and all human things are leveled in a vast chaos.

Everywhere I go I see increasing evidence of people swirling about in a human cesspit of their own making.

Every generation has a macabre notion that wars, government prohibition, natural disasters or mankind itself could be the downfall of society and the world as a whole.

History: the category of human phenomena which tends to catastrophe.

Long, continuous periods of peace and prosperity have always brought about the physical, mental and moral deterioration of the individual.

Nothing is more certain than that a general profligacy and corruption of manners make a people ripe for destruction. A good form of government may hold the rotten materials together for some time, but beyond a certain pitch, even the best constitution will be ineffectual, and slavery must ensue.

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

The status quo leads to self-destruction.

Once people realized that, 'Hey, we're going to be left on Earth here, and everything is going to hell quickly,' sci-fi soon became about our own self-destruction.

Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.

What we now have is the freedom which attends decadence, or the decadence which attends freedom.

All progressions from a higher to a lower order are marked by ruins and mystery and a residue of nameless rage.

Civilization does not have to perish. The brutes are winning only by default.

I hear the ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppled masonry, and time one livid final flame.

We are suffering from a kind of slow-motion barbarization from within.

One sound blow will serve to undo us all.

Society becomes very destructive.

Man has ruled this world as a stumbling demented child king, long enough. And as his empire crumbles, my precious black widow shall rise as his most fitting successor.