Quotes About Decline

With the decline of America's global preeminence, weaker countries will be more susceptible to the assertive influence of major regional powers.

A society that feels itself to be flourishing is likely to interpret everything that happens to its own advantage and in its own image. By contrast, a society that feels confused or in decline often converts any event - however innocuous - into a weapon of self-laceration.

The polarization of Congress; the decline of civility; and the rise of attack politics in the 1980s, the 1990s, and the early years of the new century are a blot on our political system and a disservice to the American people.

It is difficult to understand the fortunes of an instrument. There was music written for the guitar until the mid-19th century. Then the instrument declined in popularity.

The Indian economy has declined because of the peculiar Indian 'invention' of that perfidious financial derivative called Participatory Notes, or PNs, otherwise known as the crony/crooked facilitator for black-money-based portfolio investment. No other country would think of such a derivative.

I turned down an offer to represent Portugal.

Even though it is the case that poverty is linked to AIDS, in the sense that Africa is poor and they have a lot of AIDS, it's not necessarily the case that improving poverty - at least in the short run, that improving exports and improving development - it's not necessarily the case that that's going to lead to a decline in HIV prevalence.

Photographers never want to talk about the fact that they may well be in decline. It's the greatest taboo subject of all.

What is at a peak is certain to decline. He who shows his hand will surely be defeated. He who can prevail in battle by taking advantage of his enemy's doubts is invincible.

The talk show, as a genre, has been in decline for a while. It started with Jerry Springer, when the talk shows suffered a metamorphosis, going from the real and social issues to the hair-raising.

In a study of cases in Wisconsin, Maria Cancian and others show a decline in the proportion of mothers being awarded sole physical custody from 80% in 1986 to 42% in 2008.

Despite its efforts to modernize its plants and make them competitive, one sees a gradual withdrawal from those arenas

The exploitation phase needs people who thrive on designing effective processes and making things systematic. The disengagement phase requires those who are good at seeing early evidence of decline and unafraid to make the sometimes-difficult decisions to stop doing something. In an organization of any complexity, part of the challenge from the strategists' point of view is that you will have many such waves playing out, in different phases, all at the same time.

as though it had come to the top of the hill and gone over a precipice

The worrying thing is that he was well aware of his slide, but didn't seem to want — or be able — to do anything to help it.

Mahan held that a nation must expand or decline—for it was impossible for a nation to hold its own while standing still.

But they're dying. The church, I mean," she added as I met her eyes. "No new members. It's sad, really. The

Götterdämmerung Syndrome

Götterdämmerung capitalism

Is that a Polaroid camera?" Bo asked. He was pointing to the camera dangling from her neck. Jiminy had brought it with her from Chicago, to document her decline. She touched it now, and nodded.

Young Americans are dropping out of religion at an alarming rate of five to six times the historic rate.

The more men have multiplied the forms of religion, so much the more has vital godliness declined.

We are well on our way to becoming a banana republic in every respect except, of course, that we don't grow bananas.

Today, though, each faith community suffers from a decline of one or the other aspect of religious vitality. Modernity has not been kind to Jewish spirituality: Large parts of the Jewish people have become severed from basic faith and devotion. The Muslim world has the opposite problem: an erosion of open inquiry and self-critique.