Quotes about Decadence

Frontline love. It is our one hope for breaking down barriers and for restoring the sense of community, of caring for one another, that our decadent, impersonalized culture has sucked out of us.

In a decadent society the will to believe, to resist, to contend, to fight, to struggle is gone. In place of this will to resist, there is the desire to conform, to drift, to follow, to yield, and not give up.

The fact that immorality is rampant throughout the nation doesn't make it right!

It has always been a mark of decaying civilizations to become obsessed with sex. When people lose their way, their purpose, their will, and their goals, as well as their faith . . . they go "a whoring." It is a form of diversion that requires no thought, no character, and no restraint.

On the other hand, a flaccid, moping, debauched mollusc, tired from too much love and loose-nerved from general world conditions, can be a shameful thing served raw upon the shell.

I'm the frosting on America's cake, and tonight I'm willing to let you lick the bowl.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

Remove prostitutes from human affairs, and you will destroy everything with lust.

Vice does not lose its character by becoming fashionable.

Regardless of what society says, we can't go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgment coming.

Charley was twenty-six, with that faint musk of weakness hanging about him that is often mistaken for the scent of evil.

The world is increasing in wickedness.