Quotes About Decline

It is easy to go downhill; gravity does all the work.

I sometimes think that there is a link between the decline in humanity and the increase in prosperity and comfort. Property and comfort are what people seek, but the costs to character are often terrifying.

El «sentimiento de prestigio» que según Max Weber era el anhelo profundo de un político está desvaneciéndose, por la sencilla razón de que el poder subyacente de los cargos políticos está menguando.

El poder se está degradando. En pocas palabras, el poder ya no es lo que era.

Similarly, the long-entrenched power of the major organized religions is decaying at a remarkably rapid pace.

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Gradually, from 1862 onward, Faraday's health deteriorated and his mental grasp of what was going on around him crumbled; the present and the past were equally confused in his mind. In a last letter to a close friend, he wrote: My Dear Schönbein, Again and again, I tear up my letters, for I write nonsense. I cannot spell or write a line continuously. Whether I shall ever recover—this confusion—I do not know. I will not write anymore

It is easy to leave, once you are used to leaving. Easy to feel the moment of it approaching, to sense the loosening of the ropes that bound you to the earth. One becomes adept in noticing the absolute apex of love or belief from which it will inevitably decline. There comes a point when one can even begin to love leaving, the only constant we carry with us. The man who wanders forever is not cursed, he is blessed.

As real spiritual life declines, it has ever been the tendency to cease to advance in the knowledge of the truth.

Indeed, I hope to persuade you that the decline of a print-based epistemology and the accompanying rise of a television-based epistemology has had grave consequences for public life, that we are getting sillier by the minute.

there's something undoing about the dying light of mid-afternoon.

Anguish over the decline of civilization is the affliction of a reactionary. The democrat cannot lament the disappearance of something of which he is ignorant.

Those who prophesy more than indefinite cycles of decline and ascent are hiding some suspicious product they want to sell for cash.

It is not the origin of religions, or their cause, which requires explanation, but rather the cause and origin of their eclipse and neglect.

Ce siècle sombre lentement dans un marécage de sperme et de merde. Lorsqu'il traitera des événements actuels, le futur historien devra enfiler des gants.

Eradication of the Best' - we can hardly find a better explanation for decline.

The human feelings, which had never been very deep in him, grew shallower every hour, and every day something more dropped away from the decrepit wreck.

And now, at length, in my declining years, I am seeking a corner in which to eke out the remainder of my miserable existence, while at the present moment I am enjoying the hospitality of a neighbour of your acquaintance.

The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a species to decline.

Bat dünya bat..

We're sliding into undirected negative change, and what's worse, we're getting used to it.

Well, we're barely a nation at all anymore, but I'm glad we're still in space. We have to be going some place other than down the toilet.

The Bronx? No Thonx!

For in a declining civilization it is often the old who see furthest and see with youngest eyes.