Joel C. Rosenberg Quotes

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

The USA experiences the crisis of ideological and moral values.

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

Today we live in a society suffering from ethical rickets.

The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.

When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.

The accusation that we've lost our soul resonates with a very modern concern about authenticity.

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.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

In Kurosawa's films, the tragedy is that this strong man was crushed by corruption or mistrust at the end.

Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it.

We are not far from the kind of moral decay that has brought on the fall of other nations and peoples.

Consumption of wine has been made legal; mixing of sexes in the schools … has led to the proliferation of bastards. Depravity has spread and we see that women no longer cover themselves but display their bodies with makeup for all to see both indoors and outdoors. Where is the dignity of the Algerian man after his honor has been publicly flouted?

Studies show that no society that has totally embraced homosexuality has lasted more than, you know, a few decades. So it's the death knell of this country. I honestly think it's the biggest threat our nation has, even more so than terrorism or Islam — which I think is a big threat, okay? Cause what's happening now is they are going after, in schools, two-year olds...And this stuff is deadly, and it's spreading, and it will destroy our young people, it will destroy this nation

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

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.

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

When you lose work, the meaning and purpose of life are taken away from you, and isolation can set in.

You know, a lot of people give up their religion, but, oh, my goodness, they go through such agonies. I never did.

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

One of the sad things about this political season is that it allows [requires] us to get behind our big "Liberal" or "Conservative" banner and forget, for a time, that the big problems in our country have been around a long time and have been batted back and forth, caused and exacerbated, by both sides, and are more spiritual or ethical than [merely] political.

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

For the world was changing, and sweetness was gone, and virtue too. Worry had crept on a corroding world, and what was lost- good manners, ease and beauty? Ladies were not ladies anymore, and you couldn't trust a gentleman's word.

If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.

American's greatest deficit is no longer found in the federal budget. It is a moral deficit, and it may be found in a polluted and poisoned culture that has become the great enemy within.