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Moral decline10 quotes
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity. — W.B. Yeats · 1920O tempora! O mores! — Cicero · 63 BCAmong a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist. — Edmund Burke · 1777Our fathers' age was worse than our grandfathers'. We their sons are more worthless than they: so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt. — Horace · 23 BCWhere wealth and freedom reign, contentment fails,
And honour sinks where commerce long prevails. — Oliver Goldsmith · 1764In olden days, a glimpse of stocking
Was looked on as something shocking,
But now, God knows,
Anything goes. — Cole Porter · 1934All 10 quotes →Morality3 quotes
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist. — Edmund Burke · 1777Where wealth and freedom reign, contentment fails,
And honour sinks where commerce long prevails. — Oliver Goldsmith · 1764Ill 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 destroyed, can never be supplied. — Oliver Goldsmith · 1770Decline2 quotes
Our fathers' age was worse than our grandfathers'. We their sons are more worthless than they: so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt. — Horace · 23 BCOh this age! How tasteless and ill-bred it is! — Catullus · 54 BCDecline of civilization2 quotes
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity. — W.B. Yeats · 1920It's a stinking world because there's no law and order anymore! It's a stinking world because it lets the young get on to the old, like you done. Oh, it's no world for an old man any longer. What sort of a world is it at all? Men on the moon, and men spinning around the earth, and there's not no attention paid to earthly law and order no more. — Tramp · 1971Capitalism1 quote
Where wealth and freedom reign, contentment fails,
And honour sinks where commerce long prevails. — Oliver Goldsmith · 1764Custom and convention1 quote
In olden days, a glimpse of stocking
Was looked on as something shocking,
But now, God knows,
Anything goes. — Cole Porter · 1934Decline of democracy1 quote
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist. — Edmund Burke · 1777Democracy1 quote
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist. — Edmund Burke · 1777Economic inequality1 quote
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 destroyed, can never be supplied. — Oliver Goldsmith · 1770Freedom1 quote
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist. — Edmund Burke · 1777Kids these days1 quote
Our fathers' age was worse than our grandfathers'. We their sons are more worthless than they: so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt. — Horace · 23 BCLaw and order1 quote
It's a stinking world because there's no law and order anymore! It's a stinking world because it lets the young get on to the old, like you done. Oh, it's no world for an old man any longer. What sort of a world is it at all? Men on the moon, and men spinning around the earth, and there's not no attention paid to earthly law and order no more. — Tramp · 1971Political theory1 quote
It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising the sovereignty. Usurpation is then an easy attainment, and an usurper soon found. The people themselves become the willing instruments of their own debasement and ruin. Let us, then, look to the great cause, and endeavor to preserve it in full force. Let us by all wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties. — James Monroe · 1817Threats to freedom1 quote
It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising the sovereignty. Usurpation is then an easy attainment, and an usurper soon found. The people themselves become the willing instruments of their own debasement and ruin. Let us, then, look to the great cause, and endeavor to preserve it in full force. Let us by all wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties. — James Monroe · 1817Threats to the nation1 quote
It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising the sovereignty. Usurpation is then an easy attainment, and an usurper soon found. The people themselves become the willing instruments of their own debasement and ruin. Let us, then, look to the great cause, and endeavor to preserve it in full force. Let us by all wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties. — James Monroe · 1817Working class1 quote
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 destroyed, can never be supplied. — Oliver Goldsmith · 1770