Paul Gosar Quotes

It's too hard for me to comment on the sorry state of our culture.

My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization.

The standards have sunk so low throughout our culture that who really knows.

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.

America gives every appearance of being a nation besotted with trashiness - divorce, illegitimacy, casual Fridays.

Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.

There's a lot to be done; I just see a total moral decay in our society.

At the rate America is decaying morally, we shall have to change our national symbol from an eagle to a vulture.

There's been cultural rot since there's been culture.

Something is very, very wrong with American culture. The signs are everywhere. I think the country is in almost terminal descent.

Tremendous interest in the superficial is very characteristic of cultures in decline.

I think everybody must be aware that this society is a whole lot shakier now than it was before the war. I was trying to examine, in 'Dog Soldiers,' the process of that blow falling on America.

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.

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

America's biggest problem is too much freedom.

I don't think we're crumbling as a civilization, but this is not our finest hour, and it's good to be mindful that we're all susceptible to fall and to look at what are the earmarks of a civilization on the wane. What are they - destruction of the environment? Conspicuous consumption? Heard of those?

Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it.

The ruin of a nation begins in the homes of its people.

Look closely at what is dubbed the American model, and what do you see? Drugs, alcohol, drunken driving, sex on television, pornographic films ... AIDS which is caused by the spread of homosexuality ... women and men kissing in public, and growing poverty due to economic policies geared exclusively to serve the well off.... Their very technology is saturated with eroticism, and that is what they export to Egypt in the form of movies and television serials

Our secular culture is adrift in a sea of relativism, escapism, and self-indulgent inanities, with our media and entertainment elites leading the parade.

The painful truth is that in its attempt to remain 'morally neutral,' Hollywood is causing us to raise a nation of cads and harlots... Thanks again, Sean Penn!

Today we live in a society suffering from ethical rickets.

If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.

The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them.