Decay Quotes
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
A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
Amos Bronson Alcott
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
And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay.
George Washington Cable
On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger.
Hu Shih
The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism.
John C. Calhoun
All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.
Theodor Adorno
If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.
Jack Valenti
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
Harold Wilson
The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles.
Charles de Secondat
We know that our senses are subject to decay, that from our middle years they are decaying all the time; but happily it is as if we didn't know and didn't believe.
William Henry Hudson
Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.
Thomas Jefferson
Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.
George MacDonald
There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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
Today, we are on a path of decay. We are seeing the book close on five decades of accomplishment as the leader in human space exploration.
Gene Cernan
The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.
Francesca Annis
Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.
Flannery O'Connor
I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.
Henry Miller
There is a rising generation in this country who do not know God because of a general decay of religion.
Arthur Middleton