Erosion of Values Quotes

The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles.

What has happened to our society that politicians are not looked up to and have the influence that they used to.

The decay of decency in the modern age, the rebellion against law and good faith, the treatment of human beings as things, as the mere instruments of power and ambition, is without a doubt the consequence of the decay of the belief in man as something more than an animal animated by highly conditioned reflexes and chemical reactions. For, unless man is something more than that, he has no rights that anyone is bound to respect, and there are no limitations upon his conduct which he is bound to obey.

With 'Nostromo', Joseph Conrad said that he had wanted to write a novel about the degradation of an idea. That's what we wanted to show in the case of Dustin Hoffman's character, Bernstein.

God looked down on this country because this country was founded on the rock and that rock was our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And when the storms came and the rains came, the rock, it did not move. But over the last 15 or 20 years, something began to erode.

The fact that we still live well cannot ease the feeling that we no longer live nobly.

If the Constitution framers would come back today, they would have contempt for most of us.

Most people who get into power in the western world start with great intentions, but slowly they all become entrapped and hung by their own petard.