Cultural Disintegration Quotes

We are committing cultural suicide. The barbarians at the gate will only need to give us a slight push, and the emancipated body of Western civilization will collapse in a heap.

America is on her deathbed.

Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed.

Third World countries feel that the liberal view of the world and way of life is at odds with their deepest aspirations and self-conceptions. As they understand it, liberalism breaks up the community, undermines the shared body of ideas and values, places the isolated individual above the community, encourages the ethos and ethic of aggressive self-assertion, rejects traditional wisdom and common sense in the name of scientific reason, and weakens the spirit of mutual accommodation and adjustment.

The Iraqi people are living a long-running tragedy because of the legacy of the old regime, the Americans and their actions that are unsuitable for Iraqi society, and the weakness of national resolve.

Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values.

Civilization is what makes you sick.

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

The nation's hoop is broken and scattered. There is no center any longer, and the sacred tree is dead.

It is when empires begin to fall, that they tend to cause the most mayhem.

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

I have written about cultural dislocation, and I understand the corrosive effect of diminished expectations.

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

British-built railways in India helped the British to make money and maintain order and, as a by-product, served to unite the country, ripe for independence.

The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.

ON the decline of the Roman power, about five centuries after Christ, the countries of Northern Europe were left almost destitute of a national government.

The mainline Protestant churches were historically the center of gravity of the U.S. political, cultural, and intellectual establishment. Their collapse in the past five decades is one of the most important changes the United States has undergone in the contemporary era, but there has been little serious thought about its meaning.

The UK population became, for lack of a better term, Balkanized. And then all of a sudden Sharia mosques started popping up all over the place. And before you knew it, the most popular or frequent male baby name was Mohammed.

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.

It is the religious impulse which supplies the cohesive force which unifies a society and a culture... A society which has lost its religion becomes sooner or later a society which has lost its culture.

It's really sad for me that in the United States the Latino community is losing its culture and language, especially among kids born here - a lot of them can't even speak our language.

My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization.

If we want to save our country, we must all realize that the breakdown of our culture is trapping millions of people in a cycle of poverty and dependence, and together, we have to do something about it.

The Arab house has fallen upon itself. Unable to rationalize or analyze these developments, I am no longer able to cope with them.... I find myself intellectually paralyzed and politically incapacitated.

I believe in God. When everything collapses, we grip the last hold, we look from the secure haven how the godless society of the old, holy Europe falls apart. May the game begin.