Decline of Society Quotes

Universal suffrage, furloughs and whiskey have ruined us.

Elaborate burial customs are a sure sign of decadence.

The world is turning into a cesspool of imbeciles.

Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility.

Pessimism is not in being tired of evil but in being tired of good. Despair does not lie in being weary of suffering, but in being weary of joy. It is when for some reason or other good things in a society no longer work that the society begins to decline; when its food does not feed, when its cures do not cure, when its blessings refuse to bless.

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

Well, this is the end of Western civilization.

Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Princes and lords may flourish or may fade,- A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied.