Quotes of: Decline Keyword

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

By pride one causes virtue to decline.

Tibetan

What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline.

Theodor W. Adorno

If inflation-adjusted interest rates decline in a given country, its currency is likely to decline.

Ray Dalio

The aging and declining population will have far-reaching impacts. Declining fertility rates will possibly increase immigration. The structure of family and society will inevitably change.

Toshihiko Fukui

Look at the declining television coverage. Look at the declining voting rate. Economics and economic news is what moves the country now, not politics.

Robert Teeter

War, in its fairest form, implies a perpetual violation of humanity and justice.

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

I love things on the decline because that's really the natural progression of our lives. We're born, we're feisty for the first couple of years, and then the inevitable decline begins.

Gary Shteyngart

But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it? Who at least ever declined a love secret? What sister could do so?

Framley Parsonage

When poverty declines, the need for government declines, which is why expecting government to solve poverty is like expecting a tobacco company to mount an aggressive anti-smoking campaign.

Stefan Molyneux

Perhaps Western civilization is in a post-decline phase, or maybe the decline is just taking a really long time, like the Roman Empire's did. The Romans had gladiators and Christian-hungry lions and that sort of thing. We have MTV.

Tom Shales

This has a lot to do with the unrest in Nigeria, but also with the production loss after the hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, the decline in Iraq since the 2003 war, and the decline in Venezuelan output since 2002.

Daniel Yergin

It was an inflexible maxim of Roman discipline that good soldier should dread his own officers far more than the enemy

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

The Ladies Buddenbrook from Breite Strasse did not weep, however - it was not their custom. Their faces, a little less caustic than usual at least, expressed a gentle satisfaction at death's impartiality.

Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family

As homeowners see the value of their homes decline, they become more likely to delay purchases of the big items - like automobiles, electronics and home appliances - that are ballasts of the American economy. When those purchases decline, large manuf...

Charles Duhigg

You look at most artists, the arc of their career, there's a definite decline at the end. And that decline could set in at any time. In your 50s, or your 60s and 70s if you're lucky. Time goes by fast, and you've got to be busy all the time.

Seth

The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Edward Gibbon, in his classic work on the fall of the Roman Empire, describes the Roman era's declension as a place where "bizarreness masqueraded as creativity.

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

You can't do much for the poor, as they are not in with the right people.

The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody: Great Figures of History Hilariously Humbled

You can’t become a billionaire stepping over children sleeping on the street.

The Speech: A Historic Filibuster on Corporate Greed and the Decline of Our Middle Class

Scientific knowledge scarcely exists amongst the higher classes of society. The discussion in the Houses of Lords or of Commons, which arise on the occurrence of any subjects connected with science, sufficiently prove this fact…

Reflections on the Decline of Science in England