Paul Craig Roberts Quotes

In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.

I don't believe our country will last the way we know it much longer unless there's a change. And we just continue this moral decline going down, and the only hope, I believe, is God. We just hope and pray that maybe he'll hear our prayers and give us some godly leadership.

We know we are falling from grace, millennium.

The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.

A habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the moral; and men lose at once the power of protecting themselves, and of discerning the cause of their oppression.

The present age has seen a great slump in humanist values.

I refuse to bring my son up in a world corrupt as it is now.

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.

There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.

The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.

If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.

The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we go down without taking notice on't.

Is there a point at which we hit a tipping point and all of this economic, cultural and moral trouble sends us into a death spiral we can't get out of?

'Breaking Bad' - I've heard that question phrased in many directions, and it always means the same thing. It's when someone can't... when a decent person can't take it any more. They just kind of turn and go in the opposite direction.

Success in crime always invites to worse deeds.

The moral fiber of the American people is beset by rot and decay

Too often on social issues my party has painted an image of America as slouching towards Gomorrah.

No one seems to care for anything but about money today. Nothing is held of account except the bank accounts. Quality, education, civic distinction, public virtue seem each year to be valued less and less.

When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it, and avarice possesses the whole community.

The corruption of every government begins nearly always with that of principles.

… what our national experience has made plain is this, that to remain in a continually exalted moral condition is not human nature. That has happened which was prophesied: we have gone down hill from the Revolution until now; we are absorbed in "mere money-getting.

Only our own corruption can destroy us and cause our armed forces to be defeated without fighting.

The moral state of society was most terrible. We stole from ourselves, took and gave bribes, lied in the reports, in newspapers, from high podiums. And all of this from top to bottom; from bottom to top.

Without a clear moral vision, we devolve into moral relativism, and from there, into oblivion.

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