Downfall Quotes

National injustice is the surest road to national downfall. (William Ewart Gladstone)
Corruption could lead to the collapse of the Party [Communist Party of China] and the downfall of the State [People's Republic of China]. View quote
Xi Jinping
Africa's downfall has always been the cult of the personality. And their names always seem to begin with M. We've had Mobutu and Mengistu and I'm not going to add Meles to the list. View quote
Meles Zenawi
It is the downfall of evil, that it never sees far enough ahead. View quote
Orson Scott Card
It could be my downfall, but I don't think it is - Hollywood is run on perception, and if you stray off the path of what you want to do with your career, it's suicide. View quote
Charlie Hunnam
When under the influence of certain (or some) reasons (or causes) (alcohol, war, etc - added Spir here) the low instincts are unbridled (or unrestrained), the brute appears (or come forward, "apparait", Fr.) and rule over (or dominate), stifling every ("toute", Fr.) noble, generous impulse; it is then the ruin (or downfall or decline) of any humanity in man. View quote
African Spir
As far as we can look back into history, the downfall of any nation can be traced from the moment that nation became timid about spending its best blood. View quote
Frederick Russell Burnham
My downfall made a great noise: those who appeared most satisfied criticized the manner of it. View quote
François-René de Chateaubriand
From triumph to downfall is but a step. I have seen a trifle decide the most important issues in the gravest affairs. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall. View quote
Frank Lloyd Wright
Time and time again, the obstinate refusal of the tsarist regime to concede reforms turned what should have been a political problem into a revolutionary crisis... the tsarist regime's downfall was not inevitable; but its own stupidity made it so. (Orlando Figes)
Love is the greatest corrupter ever known and has been the numbers one downfall of mankind since the first creation. View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
I like food too much to go on some crazy diet. French fries are my favorite downfall. View quote
Holly Madison
We have self-centered minds which get us into plenty of trouble. If we do not come to understand the error in the way we think, our self-awareness, which is our greatest blessing, is also our downfall. View quote
Charlotte Joko Beck
But marriage goes in waves. You've got to be patient. People bail and give up on their marriages way too early. They just don't put the work and the effort into it. You've got to suck up your ego a lot of times, because that can be a big downfall. View quote
Anna Benson
The small companies who feel that the majors are a threat, or are predators, will use that as an excuse for their eventual downfall. Don't blame others for your own inadequacies. View quote
Greg Ginn
No matter what players say or people say, you want to be liked and appreciated, even if you've had a downfall. View quote
Jason Giambi
My nemesis - my downfall, if you will - was relationships, and trying to fulfill them. View quote
Jennifer O'Neill
Why is the public so interested in movies about the wealthy? My answer is that Shakespeare wrote about kings. That's where the action is. And it's the classic, cathartic thing. You get to indulge in a lifestyle you're not part of, a tragic error leads to a downfall, and you get to say, 'Thank God I'm not him.' View quote
Nicholas Jarecki
Men are strong, women are smart, but no matter how smart, their bellies are always there to betray women and that's their downfall. View quote
Simone Schwarz-Bart
The mind of the nation was acted upon by a higher stimulus than what the consideration of persons could inspire, and sought a higher conquest than could be produced by the downfall of an enemy. (Thomas Paine)
I wanted to build up Iran while we still had oil and thus to guarantee the life of the country after our oil reserves were exhausted. Therein lay the solution. We had to move fast, we had no time to spare. Finally, it is unquestionable that the oil lobby contributed actively to my downfall. View quote
Muhammad Reza Pahlavi
How we live is so different from how we ought to live that he who studies what ought to be done rather than what is done will learn the way to his downfall rather than to his preservation. View quote
Niccolò Machiavelli
The straight line leads to the downfall of humanity. View quote
Friedensreich Hundertwasser
[Radhakrishnan describes the state of dejection he experienced as a student at Madras Christian College:] 'I was strongly persuaded of the inferiority of the Hindu religion to which I attributed the political downfall of India.... I remember the cold sense of reality, the depressing feeling that crept over me, as a causal relation between the anaemic Hindu religon and our political failure forced itself on my mind. View quote
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan