“The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.”
“...the Supreme Court made several liberal decisions in the 1970s, indicating the moral decline of the nation as a whole.”
“The first sign on a declining civilization is a decline in the arts.”
“What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline.”
“Cultural decline is not inevitable.”
“There was no manifestation of contemporary culture that did not indicate to my grandmother how steadfast was the nation's decline, how merciless our mental and moral deterioration, how swiftly all-embracing our final decadence. I never saw her read a book again; but she referred to books often - as if they were shrines and cathedrals of learning that television had plundered and then abandoned.”