Decay Quotes

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.

It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime.

There is something in the decay of nature that awakens thought, even in the most trifling mind.

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

Of course the French are making very credible movies and it is still one of the greatest nations in terms of world cinema but the real problem is the decay in film criticism.

Jude has a very different character. It is not the cradle of Christianity, or of the assembly on earth: it is its decay and its death here below. It does not keep its first estate.

But I believe there is a decay that is eroding America, and as a result, God begins to disappear from our society.

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.

When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.

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

I am in an adolescence in reverse, as mysterious as the first, except that this time I feel it as a decay of the odds that I might live for a while, that I can sleep it off.

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.

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

Throughout the whole vegetable, sensible, and rational world, whatever makes progress towards maturity, as soon as it has passed that point, begins to verge towards decay.

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

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Without adventure civilization is in full decay.

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

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.

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.'

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?

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

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.

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.

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.

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.