Interesting Quotes on The Death Spiral of Civilizations

No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and Mammon.

Matthew 6.24.

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.

C. H. Dawson.

Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.

Arnold J. Toynbee.

Since men are not endowed with the same capacities, if they are free they will not be equal, and if they are equal they are not free.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

The only way to convince oneself and the rest of humanity that the socialist system is best is to see to it that there are no other systems.

Jean-Francois Revel (1985).

The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e. the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e. the standards of thought) no longer exist.

Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951).

Totalitarianism probably demands a disbelief in the very existence of objective truth.

George Orwell.

Given the current direction of the winds of change, one wonders how long it will be before flying the American Flag will be considered politically incorrect.

Joe Accetta

The creatures looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

George Orwell, Animal Farm (1945).

Man’s minds were out of balance. This explained everything and, by explaining it, condoned it. The penchant of psychology to explain the world solely in terms of the mind now received full play. Cruelty and sexual perversion were natural outlets for frustration induced by the suppression of the id by the ego.

George L. Mosse, The Culture of Western Europe (1988).

The violence wrought by the sexual revolution is incalculable: 50 million dead babies, countless broken homes, and generations of grown ups who can't grow up.

Photius Avant.

‘The nations of Europe must be guided towards a Superstate without their peoples understanding what is happening. This can be carried out in successive stages, each camouflaged as having an economic goal, but which will end up by leading them irreversibly into a federation.

Jean Monnet (1952).

The world is trying the experiment of attempting to form a civilized but non-Christian mentality. The experiment will fail; but we must be very patient in awaiting its collapse; meanwhile redeeming the time: so that the Faith may be preserved alive through the dark ages before us; to renew and rebuild civilization, and save the world from suicide.

T.S. Eliot, Thoughts after Lambeth.

It may be brethren, that soon you will experience a time of turmoil, and some of you will be called to take the path of denying our sacred laws and to submit to laws established by mere human authority. Beware of such a path! Beware of the path taken by the thief on the left; for by the weight of blasphemy, by the weight of reviling Christ, he went to his eternal perdition.St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco (+1966).

The main mark of modern governments is that we do not know who governs, de facto any more than de jure. We see the politician and not his backer; still less the backer of the backer; or, what is most important of all, the banker of the backer.

J.R.R. Tolkien.

Losing you is not a loss, and keeping you is no specific gain.

Slogan of “Democratic Kampuchea”.

It is time, it is the twelfth hour, for certain of our ecclesiastical representatives to stop being exclusively slaves of nationalism and politics, no matter what and whose, and become high priests and priests of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.

Fr. Justin Popovich.

The average person might well be no happier today than in 1800. We can choose our spouses, friends and neighbors, but they can choose to leave us. With the individual wielding unprecedented power to decide her path in life, we find it ever harder to make commitments. We thus live in an increasingly lonely world of unraveling commitments and families.

Yuval Noah Harari, (2014).

People have moved away from ‘religion’ as something anchored in organized worship and systematic beliefs within an institution, to a self-made ‘spirituality’ outside formal structures, which is based on experience, has no doctrine and makes no claim to philosophical coherence.

Clifford Longley.

That which is called democracy is always in fact plutocracy. The only alternative to the rule of the rich is to have a ruler who is deliberately made more powerful even than the rich. It is to have a ruler who is secure of his place, instead of rulers who are fighting for their place.

G.K. Chesterton.

Israel is where Jews are. It is not a line on a map.

Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir.

The death of God does not mean that man will believe in nothing, but that he will believe in anything.

G.K. Chesterton.

The time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers, and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables.

II Timothy 4.3-4.

...Today's concept of democracy, this horrible political correctness that so marks Western society: the people can do anything they want, but they don't trust themselves to think independently.

Daniel Barenboim.

We have placed too much hope in political and social reforms, only to discover that we were being deprived of our most precious possession: our spiritual life.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

Nationalism is – war.

François Mitterand (1995).

If we are wrong - expose us, give a substantive answer, show us that we are wrong, but don't slander us, don't call us Pharisees. Not at all with a feeling of proud superiority, which is what you claiming us to have, but with a FEELING OF SINCERE LOVE TOWARD THE TRUTH, and with a feeling of horror and holy anger against falsehood - this is what we want to share with all brothers in Christ, by our tragic and agonizing experience, the view of evil without the mask.

I.M. Andreyev (+1976).

A Communist economy never existed, nor will there ever be one: all it could establish was a perverted or disguised capitalist economy, good enough to maintain a gang of cute political parasites.