Robert Stone Quotes

The erosion of our confidence in the future is threatening to destroy the social and the political fabric of America.

A World War with its incalculable ramifications will strengthen social democracy which sermonizes the virtues of peace. War could easily cost some rulers their thrones.

In the 1930s one was aware of two great evils - mass unemployment and the threat of war.

In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint.

I felt just overwhelmed by input: the Vietnam war and the collapse of the '60s and the proliferation of media' it just felt like everything was too much to handle and you just tuned out.

A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.

Criminality is always the result of poverty. Countries that experience such a fundamental change as we have - we had the apartheid regime and must now develop a multicultural democracy - must necessarily pass through a phase of high crime rates.

Anyway, there were more after the war than before.

There were three causes that accounted for the proclamation of martial law in Poland. First it was the progressing economic ruin of the country. Second, it was the decomposition of the functioning of the state. And third, a threat of a civil war.

Experience has everywhere shown us, and especially in the Philippines, that the classes which are better off have always been addicted to peace and order because they live comparatively better and may be the losers in civil disturbances.

The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.

It is development, not poverty, that causes upheaval and terrorism.

I feel that we are currently living in a world that is similar to late '50s, early '60s kind of world.

The Christian church in the U.S. is still strong numerically, but it has lost its decisive influence both in American public life and in American culture as a whole, especially in the major elite institutions of society.

These are challenging times for all Americans. We face the specter of war abroad and a steady stream of bad economic news at home.

We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems.

I cannot accept a divide between Malagasy people and a civil war.

It's really important to recognize that family life in America has changed pretty dramatically.

There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.

The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

The period after the First World War was an extremely different time, so that Sherlock Holmes would have been a different person following 1918 than he was during the Victorian era.

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were. And after all of those things converged together, they just went right down the tubes very quickly.

If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political.