Decline Quotes - page 3

A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness. (William Graham Sumner)
Since the State thrives on what it expropriates, the general decline in production that it induces by its avarice foretells its own doom. Its source of income dries up. Thus, in pulling Society down it pulls itself down. Its ultimate collapse is usually occasioned by a disastrous war, but preceding that event is a history of increasing and discouraging levies on the marketplace, causing a decline in the aspirations, hopes, and self-esteem of its victims. View quote
Frank Chodorov
During the Cold War, we gathered information by listening to the Soviets, taking pictures of the Soviets, and we allowed our human intelligence to decline. View quote
Bob Graham
For instance, why are we terrorizing this country, leading with murder and mayhem, when crime is actually on the decline, as somebody, as somebody mentioned? View quote
Christiane Amanpour
Television, although It's in steep decline, still occasionally gives voices to people who don't have voices. View quote
Christopher Eccleston
All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the decline of journalism. View quote
Dick Schaap
This has a lot to do with the unrest in Nigeria, but also with the production loss after the hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, the decline in Iraq since the 2003 war, and the decline in Venezuelan output since 2002. View quote
Daniel Yergin
It's better to finish at the peak or soon after it, than to wait until the audience notices a decline. View quote
Eberhard Weber
Japanese tend to put sales and market share first. They make many products with the aim of raising sales. But then profits decline, and companies find themselves falling into debt... I changed the mindset at Canon by getting people to realize that profits come first. View quote
Fujio Mitarai
Aging nations have arteries clogged with obsolete laws, slowing blood flow and preventing oxygen from reaching all parts of the body politic. Physicians call this arteriosclerosis; historians see decline of empire. View quote
Jim Cooper
There's no light at the end of the tunnel in the Republican message, no promise of better things to come. There's only the present stagnation, followed by a slow decline. (John Podhoretz)
China and the U.S. have a very symbiotic relationship which will not decline any time soon. There are more shared interests as compared to shared differences and for this reason relations will continue to be good. View quote
Mark Mobius
There's evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry. View quote
Mark Rydell
If I have to climb to heaven on a ladder, I shall decline the invitation. View quote
Mercedes McCambridge
These days the American dream of home ownership has turned into a nightmare for millions of families. They wake every day to the reality of a horrible decline in the value of the home that has meant so much to them. View quote
Mortimer Zuckerman
As brands become larger, the need to reach greater numbers of customers makes them less edgy and dilutes their unique positioning as they try to please everyone. It is therefore not surprising to find such brands go into a few years of decline before they are able to reinvent themselves. View quote
Nirmalya Kumar
I actually picked up copies of Decline I and II at a flea market once. I walked out without paying. View quote
Penelope Spheeris
Decline III, I funded myself, from the studio money. That, and I sold a lot of drugs. Kidding. Don't print that. View quote
Penelope Spheeris
Nobody wanted to touch Decline III when they found out what it was about. View quote
Penelope Spheeris
The first Decline I did was out of sheer love and appreciation for the music. In 1977, it was more about bands, because punk was a new form of music. It was groundbreaking and political. View quote
Penelope Spheeris
Those movies, Decline I and II and Suburbia, are dearly loved, but they never made any money. I didn't even have the rights for some of them. (Penelope Spheeris)
Suicide bombers caused us more than 50 percent of our casualties. The fence works. There is a decline in the number of those terrorist attacks against Israelis. View quote
Silvan Shalom
If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political. View quote
Stephen Bayley
Along with issues like global warming, I think a problem with the world today is population decline. View quote
Talulah Riley
Perhaps Western civilization is in a post-decline phase, or maybe the decline is just taking a really long time, like the Roman Empire's did. The Romans had gladiators and Christian-hungry lions and that sort of thing. We have MTV. View quote
Tom Shales