Quotes About Decline

Our brains are subject to either sudden or gradual decline with age, to self-destructive addictive behaviors, to depression and anxiety disorders, and to many other limitations, not to mention potentially catastrophic lapses of judgment.

Although the American Revolution did not lead directly to the decline of the Catawbas, it did establish the domination of the United States from the Atlantic to the Mississippi, thereby creating the conditions under which all Native Americans—even those deemed "friendly"—would be overwhelmed in the end.

A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.

Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall.

Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 million to five million. In 1956, just three years after the coronation, the Suez canal crisis and Anthony Eden's humiliation ended all notions that Britain was a world superpower.

When E.U. governments are able to agree on political and economic policies, they will remain a superpower to influence the Americans, the Russians, Indians and Chinese over the coming decades. Britain on its own would resume the decline which continued through most of the 20th century.

Despair is a form of certainty, certainty that the future will be a lot like the present or will decline from it;

I hate the corpses of empires, they stink as nothing else. They stink so badly that I cannot believe that even in life they were healthy.

The problem with divisiveness is that it doesn't lead to prosperity. It holds us back. We use up all our energy fighting over a pie that is getting smaller and smaller as our population and tax base declines

Young, middle-aged, elderly, old, dead: this was how life conjugated. (No, life was a noun, so this is how life declined. Yes, that was better in any case, life declined.

From the 1070s, instability in the Holy Land deepened. In 1071 an army led by the Seljuq commander Alp Arslan, or Heroic Lion, routed Byzantine forces at the Battle of Manzikert, in what is eastern Turkey today. The battle, which marked the beginning of Turkish ascendancy in Anatolia and the slow decline of Byzantium, was a cataclysmic defeat. Humiliatingly Emperor Romanus IV Diogenes was captured and taken prisoner.

Capital Marx's fundamental aim was to lay bare the laws of motion which govern the origins, the rise, the development, the decline and the disappearance of a given social form of economic organization: the capitalist mode of production. He was not seeking universal laws of economic organization. Indeed, one of the essential theses of Capital is that no such laws exist. For Marx, there are no economic laws valid for each and every basically different form of society

Everything degenerates in the hands of man.

Men peak at age nineteen and go downhill.

The earth has become small, and on it hops the last man, who makes everything small. His race can no more be exterminated than the flea can be. The last man lives the longest.

Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.

We have experienced highly challenging global market conditions in the past quarter with significant steel price decline in all regions.

The death of classical music is perhaps its oldest continuing tradition.

Most music careers slowly but surely go down.

What we call 'economic growth' is in fact a growth in waste and a decline in the health of natural habitat

A depression is a large-scale decline in production and trade...there is nothing in the nature of a free-market economy to cause such an event.

With the fall of the empire, Art, Philosophy and decent drains all vanished from the West.

Empire always overreaches itself and thus dies by its own hand victim of its own ambitions

PLEASE and THANK YOU...two polite phrases which are slowly disappearing from our vocabulary.