Quotes About Decline

The French are very bizarre. There is this collective depiction: 'We're in decline, we're being assailed, we must protect ourselves.'

Ruthless is the temper of royalty; How much better to live among the equals.Let me decline in a safe old age. The very name of the middle way.

Medeniyet yok oluyor diye ba??rd? Tom öfkeyle, Ben art?k bu konuda karamsar?m. Åžu Goddard denen adam?n yazd??? The Rise of the Coloured Empires adl? kitab? okudun mu?

The Romans saw loss of virtue all around them. The Victorians decried the decline in religiosity in the next generation.

concluded that "nature is declining globally at rates unprecedented in human history." It noted that 75% of all land has been "severely altered" by human actions, as has 66% of the world's ocean area. Ecosystems are collapsing, and biodiversity is disappearing. As many as 1 million plant and animal species

War and organized violence have declined dramatically over the last two decades.

Isto está tudo decadente: já nem decadentes há.

But from what I can see all around me today, that America is fading fast, if it's not already gone.

Businesses grow and they don't change enough and they decline over time. Retailers do that on a bit of a faster cycle.

The European Union is becoming more economically feeble every year.

There are very few fishermen left today.

In the 1987 stock market crash, according to the conclusions of the official Brady report, colossal sales of stock index futures by so-called portfolio insurers - whose investment strategies depended entirely on these derivatives - greatly exacerbated the 500-point market decline.

The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said, 'A civilization is judged only in its decline.' That made sense to me. I would imagine the same is true for poets and tennis players.

In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away.

The dynamic of globalisation in financial and economic terms, but also in geopolitical terms, confronts Europeans with a stark choice: live together, share a common destiny and count in the world; or face the prospect of disunity and decline.

We have no middle ground, no foggy gray area where we can sin a little without suffering spiritual decline. That is why we must repent and come to Christ daily on submissive knees so that we can prevent our bonfires of testimony from being snuffed out by sin.

Fascism may be defined as a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.

Decadence begins with the loss of restraint.

Alas! there comes the time when man will no longer launch the arrow of his longing beyond man…. Lo! I show you the last man. The earth has become small and on it hops the last man who makes everything small. His species is ineradicable like the ground flea; the last man lives longest.

That is to say, things have a way of getting worse and worse all the time, until in the end they get so bad that we lack even the means of knowing how bad they really are.

I know only that civilizations seem to be like people. They are born, they grow to maturity, then they age and lose their vitality and they die, only to be born again in later years.

As Eliza's strength declined, John grew more solicitous.

When avarice takes the lead in a state, it is commonly the forerunner of its fall.

The attack on women's bodies that was one of the most marked consequences of the imposition of patriarchal monotheism has no convenient onset or conclusion - but it was a principle determining factor of every woman's history over an extended period of time. It signaled, precipitated even, the decline of women into their long night of feudal oppression and grotesque persecution.