Rush Limbaugh Quotes

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

When I was young I used to read about the decline of Western civilization, and I decided it was something I would like to make a contribution to.

We're in a decaying culture now. Naturally, the young people in the culture are going to feel themselves to be products of the decay.

The degradation of the sense of symbol in modern society is one of its many signs of spiritual decay.

Just carrying a ruler with you in your pocket should be forbidden, at least on a moral basis. The ruler is the symbol of the new illiteracy. The ruler is the symptom of the new disease, disintegration of our civilisation.

In every area, we seem to have thrown everything away and embraced reality television. It's nauseating, programme after programme.

It is simply the truth that the political system that I am part of has degenerated to the point that it needs fundamental change.

The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.

Politics, as a body, has failed the people.

Thousands of years of worshiping power has dealt a mortal wound to Chinese culture. That’s hypocrisy and falsehood. The habit of falsehood is fatal to a culture. But to us, falsehood is the essence.

… our representative system has failed.

Why and how did our country fall from its brilliant antiquity to the degradation of pre-British days? The answer is that defeat of the oppressed castes at the hands of the Brahminic overlordship, of materialism by idealism, constituted the beginning of the fall of India’s civilization and culture which in the end led to the loss of national independence.

The corrosion of our public language reflects deep pathologies — societal, cultural, economic — in the body politic.

If cleverness has often been a sign of decadence throughout history, the attempt to be too clever by half is an even more reliable marker of cultural decline.

Our political system has been bankrupted by the failures of Congress to act in ways that give meaning to the struggles our constituents endure.

Barbarisation may be defined as a cultural process whereby an attained condition of high value is gradually overrun and supersededby elements of lower quality.

Nobody knows the political system better than me, which is why I alone can fix it.

Maybe the culture is [particularly] shabby now. Maybe it's because I'm over sixty, that I can feel that about everything.

History is sinking and only a very few seem dimly aware that things are getting bad.

Most societies die of suicide, not attack.

We cannot cure the evils of politics with politics.

We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal.

If we want to cure the things that threaten life, limb and even survival, we need to heal our sick political system. That is, not just to address our physical ailments, but the things that determine whether we're going to survive into the next century. That is war, climate change, poverty, etc. We've got to fix our politics.

The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.

The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy.