Decline Quotes

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
Aristotle

Degenerate, Republics

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nation, Literature, Indicates

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
John Keats

Great, Death, Sea

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.
Cao Cao

Enemy, Battle, Hand

I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.
George Santayana

Beautiful, Liberty, Away

I reject the notion that America is in a well-deserved decline, that she and her citizens are unexceptional. I do not believe America is the problem in the world. I believe America is the solution to the world's problems.
Rush Limbaugh

America, Problem, Problems

I respectfully decline the invitation to join your hallucination.
Scott Adams

Join, Invitation

We will either bring on another American century, or we are doomed to witness America's decline.
Marco Rubio

America, Another, American

Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.
Camille Paglia

Music, Art, Future

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.
Jean de la Bruyere

Love, Alone, Together

My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.
James Thurber

Give, Fact, Lies

Be able to decline a date so gracefully that the person isn't embarrassed that he or she asked.
Marilyn vos Savant

Person, Able, She

There's no light at the end of the tunnel in the Republican message, no promise of better things to come. There's only the present stagnation, followed by a slow decline.
John Podhoretz

End, Light, Republican

Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Abuse, Double, Dose

If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable.
Edward R. Murrow

Show, Color, Second

By use you possess gain; by disuse you decline and lose.
Edwin Louis Cole

Lose, Gain, Possess

I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.
George McGovern

Government, Country, Getting

You can almost see voters nodding their heads at home: The public's faith in politicians and political institutions has been on a steep and dangerous decline for decades, because elected leaders fail to deliver.
Ron Fournier

Faith, Home, Political

The decline and fall of the modern religious right's notion of a Christian America creates a calmer political environment and, for many believers, may help open the way for a more theologically serious religious life.
Jon Meacham

Life, Help, Political

There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline.
Andy Grove

Change, History, Moment

Ever since the destruction of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258, the Muslim world has been in slow decline relative to the west. With Napoleon's invasion of Egypt and the creeping British annexation of Muslim India, that decline took on a malign aspect.
James Buchan

Since, Took, Muslim

Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice.
Moshe Dayan

Money, Friends, Advice

Europe today is the most secular region in the world. Europe is the only region in the world experiencing population decline. Wherever you turn today the more religious the community, the larger on average are their families.
Jonathan Sacks

Today, Religious, Community

Actually, one of the better indicators historically of how well the stock market will do is just a Gallup poll, when you ask Americans if you think it's a good time to invest in stocks, except it goes the opposite direction of what you would expect. When the markets going up, it in fact makes it more prone toward decline.
Nate Silver

Time, Good, Fact

We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.
Jane Fonda

Age, Living, Old

In New York, if you weigh under 200 pounds and decline so much as a cookie at a co-worker's party, women will flock to your side, assuring you of your appealing physique. This is how skittish we are about the dangers of anorexia and the pressures of body image.
Sloane Crosley

Women, Body, Party

The economic and social decline of Zimbabwe is shocking and appalling. Life there is unrecognisable from that of the recent past. Each day is a struggle for basic survival.
Lucy Powell

Life, Struggle, Past

Over the last 15 years or so, Manchester has undergone huge transformation - from a city in decline and on its knees to one that is growing, vibrant and confident.
Lucy Powell

Last, Growing, City

I always seem to feel that everything is about to cave in on me. I think that maybe music is my protection from that and in some senses it's an outlet to turn it into something euphoric: embracing the eventual decline.
Florence Welch

Music, Everything, Turn

Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a little sad. You've got to be careful.
Rowan Atkinson

Sad, Someone, Fact

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