Frank Miller Quotes

Most societies die of suicide, not attack.

Because Roman civilization perished through barbarian invasions, we are perhaps too much inclined to think that that is the only way a civilization can die. If the lights that guide us ever go out, they will fade little by little, as if of their own accord.... We therefore should not console ourselves by thinking that the barbarians are still a long way off. Some peoples may let the torch be snatched from their hands, but others stamp it out themselves.

Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.

A nation never falls but by suicide.

Self-righteous people can talk themselves into forgetting they are part of a civilization. They can then feed on that culture, bringing it down. It's happened many times in the past. It could happen to us.

A bad system will beat a good person every time.

The trouble with normal is it always gets worse.

Well, this is the end of Western civilization.

America is laughing her way to Hell.

In the long run, the aggressive civilizations destroy themselves, almost always. It's their nature. They can't help it.

Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.

It seems the brighter you are, the deeper the hole you get into.

My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent.

The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced.

To all who leaned upon Mr. Gladstone, who trusted him, and hoped for something from him—chips, nothing but chips—hard, dry, unnourishing, indigestible chips.

It is always best and safest to count on nothing from America but words.

Nine tenths of the callers at the White House want something they ought not to have.

The greatest enemy a man can have is his prosperity.

What's got badly, goes badly.

Every government of the world has the seeds of its own destruction in itself.

I sometimes wonder what use there is in trying to protect the West against fancied external threats when the signs of disintegration within are so striking

History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it.

Civilizations die from suicide, not murder

It is the definition of tragedy. You have all those really good arguments for maintaining a status quo that will destroy you…. We are setting ourselves on fire with the best of arguments.

What I think is frustrating for Americans is that it feels like more was going to change with Obama.