Decline Quotes - page 13

American statesmanship, worthy of the name, is now taxing its energies to frame measures to meet the demands of constantly increasing expansion of power, responsibility and duty. Without fault or merit on either side, theirs or ours, the balance is largely in our favor. Like the grand old forests, renewed and enriched from decaying trunks once full of life and beauty, but now moss-covered, oozy and crumbling, we are destined to grow and flourish while they decline and fade. (Frederick Douglass)
I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went into a decline, why they died. View quote
L. Ron Hubbard
Societies in decline have no use for visionaries. View quote
Anaïs Nin
Some of the evils which are caused by the fallacy of an incompatibility between theory and practice having been described, it must now be admitted, that at the present time those evils show a decided tendency to decline. View quote
William John Macquorn Rankine
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality. View quote
Muriel Spark
What makes me worry today is the alarming decline in the trust in democratic institutions - political parties, Parliaments, political leaders. Less and less people are going to the polls in most advanced democracies. View quote
Ivan Krastev
I rather think the cinema will die. Look at the energy being exerted to revive it -- yesterday it was color, today three dimensions. I don't give it forty years more. Witness the decline of conversation. Only the Irish have remained incomparable conversationalists, maybe because technical progress has passed them by. View quote
Orson Welles
Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s. View quote
Camille Paglia
Pride is the chief cause in the decline in the number of husbands and wives. View quote
Neil Diamond
It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward, in counteraction to those that tend to tie it back. In fact, it may very well be that the very high incidence of neuroticism among ourselves follows the decline among us of such effective spiritual aid. View quote
Joseph Campbell
As a general truth, communities prosper and flourish, or droop and decline, in just the degree that they practise or neglect to practise the primary duties of justice and humanity. (William H. Seward)
All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline. View quote
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
We have populations now in the West with a very short memory span. One reason for this short memory span is that television over the last fifteen years has seen a big decline in the coverage of the rest of the world. View quote
Tariq Ali
While I have no empirical evidence to back this up, I bet that the number of homosexual people per thousand has not fluctuated all that much over the centuries. I do not believe the dented wisdom my father used to extol, that homosexuality was a sure sign of a civilization in decline. View quote
Henry Rollins
In Quintilian's expositions there appears a note of melancholy when he discovers that toward the decline of life, the ratio sneaks in gradually, choking up insight into the original. View quote
Ernesto Grassi
We will either bring on another American century, or we are doomed to witness America's decline. View quote
Marco Rubio
I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government. View quote
George McGovern
It's moving in the right direction. It was in decline under the previous administration. View quote
John Prescott
In a word, the Barbarian is discoverable everywhere in this that he cannot make; that he can befog or destroy, but that he cannot sustain; and of every Barbarian in the decline or peril of every civilisation exactly that has been true. View quote
Hilaire Belloc
No one likes to see redundancies at home at the same time as he sees a surge of imports from abroad. The temptation to succumb to political pressure, to make a special case or to give respite is often overwhelming. But to do so, except in response to clearly unfair trading practices, is to court disaster. The temporary measure frequently becomes the permanent fixture and the special case, a precedent for more. And by shielding industry from fair competition in the short-term, long term decline is guaranteed. View quote
Norman Tebbit
Europe today is the most secular region in the world. Europe is the only region in the world experiencing population decline. Wherever you turn today the more religious the community, the larger on average are their families. (Jonathan Sacks)
Sex is an absinthe whose strength only the strong can stand. In both sexes there are two successive crises, the sexual and the sensual. The first comes at a fixed period ... the second generally coincides with the completion of growth. Sometimes, when decline is beginning, a third occurs, which like the first brings with it a condition of sentimentality. View quote
Remy de Gourmont
As a result of the digital age and the decline of first-class mail, there is no question that the Postal Service must change and develop a new business model. View quote
Bernie Sanders
The bones of the Sophists long ago turned to dust and what they said turned to dust with them and the dust was buried under the rubble of declining Athens through its fall and Macedonia through its decline and fall. View quote
Robert M. Pirsig
It had been a moving, tranquil apotheosis, immersed in the transfiguring sunset glow of decline and decay and extinction. View quote
Thomas Mann