moral degeneration Quotes

Wherever there is degeneration and apathy, there also is sexual perversion, cold depravity, miscarriage, premature old age, grumbling youth, there is a decline in the arts, indifference to science, and injustice in all its forms.

Vice incapacitates a man from all public duty; it withers the powers of his under- standing, and makes his mind paralytic.

The basic purpose of this documentary is to very strongly and efficiently depict the national prevalence of juvenile delinquency, crime, moral degeneration, narcotics, and the facts that women are afraid to walk on the street at night and parents are fearful for their children, husbands for their wives … to portray and remind the people of something they already know exists, and that is the moral crisis in America, the rising crime rate, pornography, filthy magazines, which is all part of the same package. We want to just make them mad, make their stomachs turn.

People who call themselves supporters of Israel are actually supporters of its moral degeneration and ultimate destruction.

When hope is taken away from the people moral degeneration follows swiftly after.

Wherever we direct our view, we discover the melancholy proofs of our depravity; whether we look to ancient or modern times, to barbarous or civilized nations, to the conduct of the world around us, or to the monitor within the breast; whether we read, or hear, or act, or think, or feel, the same humiliating lesson is forced upon us.

There have certainly been many periods in history when virtue was more rare than under the Caesars; but there has probably never been a period when vice was more extravagant or uncontrolled.

The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing Religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is imposed on the historian. He must discover the inevitable mixture of error and corruption which she contracted in a long residence upon Earth, among a weak and degenerate race of beings.

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

But the forces of evil have not abdicated. The malevolent ghosts of hatred are resurgent with a fury and a boldness that are as astounding as they are nauseating: ethnic conflicts, religious riots, anti-Semitic incidents here, there, and everywhere. What is wrong with these morally degenerate people that they abuse their freedom, so recently won?