Decay Quotes

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

If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.

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.

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

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

We must act swiftly in order to halt the rate of decay our planet faces.

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.

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

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

The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles.

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.

If those communities are left to decay, this city will decay.

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

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.

Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

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

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

There is a rising generation in this country who do not know God because of a general decay of religion.

All beautiful and noble qualities have been united in me... I shall be the fruit which will leave eternal vitality behind even after its decay. How great must be your joy, therefore, to have given birth to me.

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.

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.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

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.

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

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