John Podhoretz 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.

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

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

We are, in many respects, in a moral and spiritual free-fall in our country, and we are paying a terrible price.

The USA experiences the crisis of ideological and moral values.

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

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.

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.

The higher the building the lower the morals.

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!

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

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

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.

I refuse to bring my son up in a world corrupt as it is now.

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.

When a society abandons its ideals just because most people can't live up to them, behavior gets very ugly indeed.

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

America's conscience is bankrupt. She lost all conscience a long time ago. Uncle Sam has no conscience.

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.

Civilization is going down the drain, and the sooner it does, the better.

Today we live in a society suffering from ethical rickets.

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

There's a danger our fiscal bankruptcy might overtake our moral bankruptcy.

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.