Rush Limbaugh Quotes

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.

Like so many Americans, I am sick and tired of watching the rapid decline of our culture right in front of our eyes.

Tremendous interest in the superficial is very characteristic of cultures in decline.

It's too hard for me to comment on the sorry state of our culture.

If the world suffers from mental deterioration or from moral degradation, then something goes wrong at the very root of civilization or culture. Even though that civilization may drag out for a considerable period, it grows less and less vital and ultimately tumbles down.

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

When a nation forgets her skill in war, when her religion becomes a mockery, when the whole nation becomes a nation of money-grabbers, then the wild tribes, the barbarians drive in... Who will our invaders be? From whence will they come?

The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion.

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

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.

More than Iran’s enemies need artillery, guns, and so forth, they need to spread cultural values that lead to moral corruption …. I recently read in the news that a senior official in an important American political center said “Instead of bombs, send them miniskirts”. He is right. If they arouse unrestrained mixing of men and women, and if they lead youth to behavior to which they are naturally inclined by instincts, there will no longer be any need for artillery and guns against that nation.

... we've passed from the age of the common man to the common crook.

The American sense of decorum is falling apart.

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

Breaking of norms and disregard for decency have huge, long-term costs.

In the end, what brings civilizations down is when the elites lose confidence in the rightness of their cause.

We have been concentrating on the banks, business and our bellies. We have neglected the spiritual and cultural. It was because Rome and Athens neglected these things that they fell.

I can say, particularly as a mother of four small children. I can talk about the coarsening of our culture.

The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!

Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.

We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.

Western civilization was declining too fast for comfort, but too slowly to be very exciting.

Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.