The goal of every culture is t...

The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

~Cyril Connolly~

Men first feel necessity, then...

Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally go mad and waste their substance.

~Giambattista Vico~

Every civilization when it los...

Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness, more vast and more stupendous than the old savage sort. An Augean stable of metallic filth.

~D. H. Lawrence~

Every civilization reaches a p...

Every civilization reaches a point when the standard of living can no longer be maintained through moral means.

~Richard Althaus~