Paul Weyrich Quotes

From the subtle to the extreme, our culture and our values are under unrelenting attack from the media.

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

Over the past two decades, we have clearly seen an erosion of ethical values.

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

Christians were regarded as separated from society and therefore destructive of the Greco-Roman way of life.

If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.

But I believe there is a decay that is eroding America, and as a result, God begins to disappear from our society.

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.

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.

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

The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were. And after all of those things converged together, they just went right down the tubes very quickly.

We have defined decency down.

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

Civilizations do not give out, they give in. They come apart not in a flash but by the inch. In a society where anything goes, everything eventually will.

The present crisis in the Islamic world may stem from too many loud and conflicting voices, all claiming religious authority.

It’s the confrontation with modernity that produces terrorism.

I don't believe the makeup of America is as solid as it was 40 years ago. Society has become more selfish and, as a result, less dedicated to the common good. Millions hail a culture that is now more concerned with money and appearances than with genuine accomplishment.

There are many levels to Islamic rage. But what we're dealing with here is a view of the U.S. as a secular, sinful society that must be humbled, and this has nothing to do with any particular aspect of American policy. In my view, there can be no compromise with such a vision.

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.

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

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

There is tension between the values of modern society and the principles of Islam.

Example and general milieu, once considered so important in the nurture of children, are sacrificed on the altars of the false god we call free choice but which imprisons us all in a collective moral paralysis and delivers an anarchy that the State itself shrinks from challenging.