Decay Quotes

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.
Thomas Jefferson

Mind, Human, Body

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.
George Orwell

End, Political, Language

I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.
Bob Dylan

Dreams, Nature, Against

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
Harold Wilson

Change, Human, Progress

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
Maurice Chevalier

There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Religion, Country, Sign

Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay.
Sallust

Great, Small, Makes

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Mind, Security, Tradition

In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.
Ernst Fischer

Change, Faith, Art

Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
Ambrose Bierce

Life, Spiritual, Body

Fascism is capitalism in decay.
Vladimir Lenin

Capitalism, Fascism

Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.
Benjamin Disraeli

Nation, Support, Public

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
Robert Browning

Best, Sympathy, Autumn

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
Amos Bronson Alcott

Government, Business, Corruption

Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Good, Men, Government

I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.
Henry Miller

Life, Rich, Wonderful

Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.
Horace

Great, Before, Against

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
Sallust

Health, End, Blessings

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.
Theodor Adorno

Why, Blind, Forces

Progress, this great heresy of decay.
Charles Baudelaire

Great, Progress, Heresy

Among the many reasons assignable for the sad decay of true Christianity, perhaps the neglecting to assemble ourselves together, in religious societies, may not be one of the least.
George Whitefield

It's art that pushes against psychological and social expectations, that tries to transform decay into something generative, that is replicative in a baroque way, that isn't about progress, and wants to - as Walt Whitman put it - 'contain multitudes.'
Jerry Saltz

Art, Put, Against

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.
George MacDonald

Life, Age, Within

All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
John Dryden

Fate, Subject, Obey

The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.
Francesca Annis

Nothing, Accept, Sets

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
Oliver Goldsmith

Too much freedom can lead to the soul's decay.
Prince

Freedom, Soul, Lead

Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
Alfred North Whitehead

Adventure, Full

We've come a long way in our thinking, but also in our moral decay. I can't imagine Dr. King watching the 'Real Housewives' or 'Jersey Shore.'
Samuel L. Jackson

Long, Real, Thinking

Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?
Garrett Hardin

Trust, Family, Fear

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