Decay Quotes
- Page 2The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.
William Godwin
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.
Lee Atwater
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.
Wim Wenders
There is something in the decay of nature that awakens thought, even in the most trifling mind.
Sarah Josepha Hale
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
Harold Wilson
But I believe there is a decay that is eroding America, and as a result, God begins to disappear from our society.
Lee Greenwood
Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.
Thomas Jefferson
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.
John Nelson Darby
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
When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.
Octave Mirbeau
There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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.
Harold Brodkey
Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.
George MacDonald
The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.
Francesca Annis
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.
Robert Blair
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
One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.
Jean-Luc Godard
Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.
John Updike
Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.
Walter Smith
Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.
George Orwell
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