Decline Quotes
Decline Quote of the day
Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
J. Edgar Hoover: When morals decline and good men do nothing, evil flourishes. A society unwilling to learn from past is doomed. We must never forget our history.
What is at a peak is certain to decline. He who shows his hand will surely be defeated. He who can prevail in battle by taking advantage of his enemy's doubts is invincible.
The first Decline I did was out of sheer love and appreciation for the music. In 1977, it was more about bands, because punk was a new form of music. It was groundbreaking and political.
Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
Heard someone say, 'I can't wait until I can finally say I've made it.' The day you think you've 'made it' is the day you begin your decline.
In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties.
Science, which is not so attached to 'truth' as it once was, but more to immediate 'effectiveness', is now drifting towards a decline, it's civic fall from grace.
For instance, why are we terrorizing this country, leading with murder and mayhem, when crime is actually on the decline, as somebody, as somebody mentioned?
I decline Christianity because it is Jewish, because it is international, and because, in cowardly fashion, it preaches Peace on Earth.
The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.
When a man imagines, even after years of striving, that he has attained perfection, his decline begins.
As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind. Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.
Chess is a part of culture and if a culture is declining then Chess too will decline
It takes constant vigilance not to slip into negativity or simple apathy. It takes courage to believe over any given period of time that we are getting better and not sliding into decline.
As a result of the awareness and consciousness of decline, an awareness and consciousness of a national ethnicity or an Islamic identity also came into being.
Psychedelics are probably responsible for every aspect of human evolution apart from the decline in bodyhair.
The age of the proof is in decline, it is the hour of 'witness' that is coming, hour of the 'marturioa', very calm and very complete: a hope which seems close to being realised.
What we call 'economic growth' is in fact a growth in waste and a decline in the health of natural habitat
Islam takes advantage of two structural flaws that exist in the Western society. One is political correctness and other is the decline of morality.
You get recessions, you have stock market declines. If you don't understand that's going to happen, then you're not ready, you won't do well in the markets.
The end of the decline of the Stock Market will probably not be long, only a few more days at most.
If someone offers you a gift, and you decline to accept it, the other person still owns that gift. The same is true of insults and verbal attacks.
I actually picked up copies of Decline I and II at a flea market once. I walked out without paying.
The enterprise that does not innovate ages and declines. And in a period of rapid change such as the present, the decline will be fast.
Should one point out that from ancient times decline in courage has been considered the beginning of the end?
It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring.
The kind of programming that C provides will probably remain similar absolutely or slowly decline in usage, but relatively, JavaScript or its variants, or XML, will continue to become more central.
We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.
One of the main causes of our artistic decline lies beyond doubt in the separation of art and science.
A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal.
Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.
As a result of the digital age and the decline of first-class mail, there is no question that the Postal Service must change and develop a new business model.
It should be remembered that a decline of 50% fully offsets a preceding advance of 100%.
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.
If inflation-adjusted interest rates decline in a given country, its currency is likely to decline.
It is important to remember that these are your Declining Years, in which you can jolly well decline to do what you don't feel like doing, unless not doing it would make you feel worse than doing it.
We decline the claim to power by parties which want to own their followers body and soul, and which want to put themselves over and above the whole nation.
It is certainly much easier wholly to decline a passion than to keep it within just bounds and measures; and that which few can moderate almost anybody may prevent.