Quotes About Deterioration

You distrusted the Imperials too. Most human beings do these days, which is an important factor in the decay and deterioration of the Empire.

A planet might deteriorate even if human beings existed upon it, if the society were itself abnormal and did not understand the importance of preserving the environment." "Surely," said Pelorat, "such a society would quickly be destroyed. I don't think it would be possible for human beings to fail to understand the importance of retaining the very factors that are keeping them alive.

the credits still go—unproductively—to the armed forces and vital areas of the social good are allowed to deteriorate. That's what I call decay.

Circulation ceases first at the outer edges. It will take a while yet for the decay to reach the heart.

Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.

age is so humiliating, darlings. After a while, there is simply no camouflaging your deterioration, and no one ever sees all the strengths you've acquired along the way.

Our clothes are going to pieces fast. Send provisions as soon as possible.

Civilization is going down the drain, and the sooner it does, the better.

loss of mental function, taste for Frank Sinatra music, and similar degenerative effects.

Washington was still a place to be respected, but only in the way that we respect crumbling antiquity.

Remember, without your input, your body will constantly misinterpret the signals of today's world. It will trigger the "default to decay" setting. You'll start to deteriorate, to die

The mantra of the "least worse" does not work—look at the steady deterioration in American politics. The "least worst" paves the way for the worst.

All you got to do is look around. This country's getting worse and worse and more and more immoral, and we're rotting from within.

Long ago I learned that even the most inanimate things we know of—stone, iron columns, copper pipes, gravel roads, a piece of paper—won't last very long without attention and fixing and the loan of additional order. Existence, it seems, is chiefly maintenance. What

There is a glamour, even to a thing undoing itself

worms have crawled up your nose and eaten your wits.

Some men are like swords, made for fighting. Hang them and they go to rust.

Some men are like swords, made for fighting. Hang them up and they go to rust.

Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.

I'll fares the land, to hastening ills of prey Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.

My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.

It is difficult to conceive any situation more painful than that of a great man, condemned to watch the lingering agony of an exhausted country, to tend it during the alternate fits of stupefaction and raving which precede its dissolution, to see the symptoms of vitality dissappear one by one, till nothing is left but coldness, darkness, and corruption.