Quotes About Decline

History started badly and hav been getting steadily worse.

While America's imperial power might degrade, power of this magnitude does not collapse quickly except through war. German, Japanese, French, and British power declined not because of debt but because of wars

And after the Fall will come inevitable barbarism

Now, when I read constantly about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that the door is closing and that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

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

la caída del imperio, caballeros, es algo monumental y no puede combatirse fácilmente. Está dictada por una burocracia en aumento, una recesión de la iniciativa, una congelación de las castas, un estancamiento de la curiosidad… y muchos factores más.

It was falling apart, that world, three centuries ago, when Seldon first established the Foundation—and if history speaks truly, it was falling apart of the triple disease of inertia, despotism, and maldistribution of the goods of the universe.

caída de un imperio es un suceso colosal, y no se combate con facilidad. Viene dictada por el crecimiento de la burocracia, la asfixia de la iniciativa, la esclerosis del sistema de castas, la condena de toda curiosidad...

la caída de un imperio es un suceso colosal, y no se combate con facilidad. Viene dictada por el crecimiento de la burocracia, la asfixia de la iniciativa, la esclerosis del sistema de castas, la condena de toda curiosidad...

I think that whenever a nation feels itself to be at is zenith, it starts to feel a creeping sense of anxiety.

There are signs that the age of petroleum has passed its zenith. Adjusted for inflation, a barrel of crude oil now sells for three times its long-run average. The large western oil companies, which cartellised the industry for much of the 20th century, are now selling more oil than they find, and are thus in the throes of liquidation.

The economic and social decline of Zimbabwe is shocking and appalling. Life there is unrecognisable from that of the recent past. Each day is a struggle for basic survival.

Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and the sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

A decline in courage may be the most striking feature which an outside observer notices in the West in our days. The Western world has lost its civic courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, in each government, in each political party, and, of course, in the United Nations. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling groups and the intellectual elite, causing an impression that the loss of courage extends to the entire society.

In the span of a human lifetime, and well within the collective memory, Britain went from a stable imperial power ruling an appreciable fraction of the Earth's surface to being a tumultuous patchwork which was at least superficially in decline.

There's no light at the end of the tunnel in the Republican message, no promise of better things to come. There's only the present stagnation, followed by a slow decline.

At the end of the Roman Empire, in the Byzantine period, the empire shrinks and shrinks until it consists of one city, Constantinople, and the Ottoman Turks can encircle it.

In the 00s, it was often claimed that political apathy had replaced political participation. Membership of political parties and electoral turnout were both said to be in irreversible decline.

He's a threat to win until his brain turns to tapioca.

By March '87 we're down to seven thousand, by the end of the year we're down to twelve hundred. The whole bottom just fell out of the market. It was bad for me because I was in Australia at the time.

The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.

News in printed form is in secular decline. However, news delivered the way consumers want it is growing and thriving.

If we don't stop behaving like the British Empire, we will end up like the British Empire.