Arthur Levitt Quotes

For too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things

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

Become corrupt, corrupt, and you will cease to suffer!" This has been the cry of all cities to man.

A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third; and so on, till the bulk of the society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sin and suffering.

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.

Over all, many of society's values are a cesspool.

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.

We all understand that the debasement of a nation's coinage is very pernicious and must prove disastrous to its commerce. How much more dangerous is the debasement of the spiritual coinage!

Whatever Romney's failings, he certainly doesn't suggest that the United States is teetering on the brink of a moral cesspool.

We live in an age in which the biblical-moral traditions that have guided us for centuries are increasingly being forgotten.

It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.

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

There's such cultural rot taking place, such a disintegration throughout our culture. Values, morality, you name it. Standards have been relaxed, and people are not being held to them. People's intentions, if they're said to be good and honorable, that's all that matters.

We have defined decency down.

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

Long, continuous periods of peace and prosperity have always brought about the physical, mental and moral deterioration of the individual.

One cannot but regret the deliberate absence of every transcendental moral reference in governing the so-called developed society.

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

Because of our sin, we as individuals and as a nation continue to experience a decline in moral values and beliefs. Our sinful behavior has resulted in increasing rates of unmarried adolescent and adult sexual activity, the birth of children to unwed mothers, the spread of sexually transmitted diseases and decreasing marital fidelity. These are all signs of the decline of our culture.

The Internet has played a major role in undermining public morality.

There are a lot of problems in this country having to do with permissiveness.

All you got to do is look around. This country's getting worse and worse and more and more immoral, and we're rotting from within.

We're supposed to be becoming more evolved as a society, and we're actually becoming less evolved.

The essential characteristic of the first half of the twentieth century is the growing weakness, and almost the disappearance, of the idea of value.