Quotes About Decline

decline, fear of strangers and an unfamiliar world—is corroding the trust and interdependence on which civil societies rest.

How could human civilization decline so far, yet seem so normal in many respects? And is it scientifically possible that a blight could wipe out all edible

Most Americans are unaware that the average income of the bottom 50 percent of their population has declined over a thirty-year period.

He consequently long declined any proposal to have it translated.

Republicans have been running on tax-cut proposals since the era of Harding and Coolidge. Tax-rate reductions and simplifications are urgently needed. But again, there is no mention of the key problems of a global economy in decline—of the acceptance by economic elites of inevitable and irremediable stagnation. We have not faced the fact that the Federal Reserve's capacity to command growth is a god that has failed.

I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.

Perhaps magic was once a mighty force in the world, but no longer. What little remains is no more than the wisp of smoke that lingers in the air after a great fire has burned out, and even that is fading. Valyria was the last ember, and Valyria is gone. The dragons are no more, the giants are dead, the children of the forest forgotten with all their lore.

He is now fast rising from affluence to poverty.

Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.

The grandeur that was Rome.

Nations have passed away and left no traces, And history gives the naked cause of it - One single simple reason in all cases; They fell because their peoples were not fit.

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

When there is no feeling of accomplishment, children fail to develop properly and old people rapidly decline.

Ages 50+. — The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down.

What the Hell happened to that angel," Butch murmured."It's like he's running out of battery strength." Shaking his head, V went back to his phone. "Betty White did die. Maybe that's why he's in decline.

We're living through the twilight of American economic dominance.

In the U.S. the powerful critics of austerity such as Paul Krugman and Robert Reich rightly identify the decline of 'labor' as a problem, and renewing trade unionism part of the solution. Our opportunity is to make the same case in the UK.

When Dickens arrives in the United States in November of 1867, he's already in questionable health. So by the end of the trip, he was really in failing condition, and really, he would never recover completely after this point, and you could sort of draw a straight line to his ultimate decline and death.

It isn't just that Obama's policies have failed; it's that he has essentially given up and is asking us to accept a lesser America going forward, as if resigned to the fatalistic belief that America has begun an inevitable and unavoidable decline.

During the Cold War, we gathered information by listening to the Soviets, taking pictures of the Soviets, and we allowed our human intelligence to decline.

The world is made of stairs, and there are those who go up and those who go down.

Wisdom degenerates in governments as governments increase in age.

I know that it is likely that as worship of the gods declines, faith between men and all human society will disappear, as well as that most excellent of all virtues, which is justice.

The end of health or of vigor is sad. [p. 149]