Quotes About Decline

A great deal of stupidity has chipped away at the massive advantages of Western civilization, which could terminally decline if it remains on the current path. But these problems can be solved - and swiftly - if the right leaders emerge.

Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?

Science fiction writers didn't predict the fade-out of NASA's manned space operations, and they weren't prepared with alternative routes to space when that decline became undeniable.

The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are in ruins.

Season 4 can be deadly for a show that's been a hit show.

I am the Empire at the end of the decadence.

When the manufacturing decline began in earnest in 2001, the main culprits were the offshoring of jobs to China, with which we have no trade deal, and automation.

America is not in decline.

The idea of England in decline is very attractive.

All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.

You can't just become complacent or lazy, or then the decline happens.

Arsenal was in a decline. We had to stop this and begin climbing.

It's not easy for a coach to deal with a player who is in slow decline.

As you decline in years, you decline in the marketplace.

My declining allure is a source of great sadness to me.

Once a country descends into evil, it doesn't emerge.

I knew people were going to see me see deteriorate before their eyes.

On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.

Bowling really was a big American sport in the '50s, '60s, and '70s, and then it kind of died off in the '80s.

According to a report in the New York Times of November 16, 1999, recent research suggests that even without the white hunters, the buffalo would have become extinct. Among the factors involved in the decline of the species:

The idea of decline is no more, no less, correct than the idea of progress. History is neither progress nor decline alone. It is both. What is determinative in the historian's judgment is simply that aspect of the present he chooses to illuminate.

party crisis that prevailed from 1907 to 1912. That period of reaction saw a catastrophic decline in party fortunes. Discouragement, apathy, and political quietism took over in the aftermath of the 1905 Revolution. The party practically fell apart as former activists deserted it en masse and arrests took a heavy toll of those still willing to carry on. By the summer of 1909, not more than five or six of the Bolshevik underground committees were still functioning regularly in Russia.

The rattle of plates and cutlery was the sound of empires falling.

It is the natural course of things that power eventually fades and weakens.