Decline Quotes

Fragmentation occurs when a civilization is in decline.

— Robert Payne

I decline to accept the end of man.

— William Faulkner

“Cultural decline is not inevitable.”

— National Endowment for the Arts

As Pride increases, Fortune declines.

— Benjamin Franklin

I can't bear Britain in decline. I just can't.

— Margaret Thatcher

“In our decline we live in the shadow of giants.”

— Ian McEwan

The idea of England in decline is very attractive.

— Martin Parr

“When things flourish they decline.”

— Lao Tzu

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

— Marco Rubio

Deflation is defined as a general decline in prices, with emphasis on the word 'general.'

— Ben Bernanke

The labor movement can be rebuilt, as has happened before after sharp declines.

— Noam Chomsky

“Head injuries are a significant risk to accelerated cognitive decline.”

— Steven Magee

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

— Edwin Louis Cole

I decline to go fox hunting (nor did she want her sons William and Harry to be involved in hunting).

— Princess Diana

This cream will help one's nature strengthen and grow, The diet gives support in my decline.

— Du Fu

When there is no feeling of accomplishment, children fail to develop properly and old people rapidly decline.

— Joe Whitney

If younger adults turn away from smoking, the industry will decline, just as a population which does not give birth will eventually…

— R. J. Reynolds

I believe in courtesy. It is the way we avoid hurting people's feelings. She thought that maybe, just maybe, western civilization was…

— Anonymous

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

— Moshe Dayan

You can almost see voters nodding their heads at home: The public's faith in politicians and political institutions has been on a…

— Ron Fournier

The investor who permits himself to be stampeded or unduly worried by unjustified market declines in his holdings is perversely transforming his…

— Benjamin Graham

My theories explain, but cannot slow the decline of a great civilization. I set out to be a reformer, but only became…

— Ludwig von Mises

If we don't give the authors of music, film, literature, and journalism a way to control the distribution of their goods, the…

— Glenn Kelman

I think the rise of quantitative econometrics and a highly mathematical approach to risk management was the obverse of a decline in…

— Niall Ferguson

The American dream is shrinking because some of our leaders want it to shrink. Decline, in other words, has become a policy…

— Dinesh D'Souza

The rates of taxation climb and the levels of capital decline, until the only remaining wealth beyond the reach of the regime…

— George Gilder

Every major industry was once a growth industry. But some that are now riding a wave of growth enthusiasm are very much…

— Theodore Levitt

For much of this decade, both Congressional and administration budget projections showed a decline in science and technology accounts of between 20…

— Anonymous

...in the decline of life shame and grief are of short duration; whether it be that we bear easily what we have…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

If the 1,990-page House Health Care Bill becomes law, the average American will receive worse health care, American physicians will decline in…

— Dennis Prager

Talking about sexual morality, I wouldn't agree that it's declining, but it's certainly changing. Young and old, we are very much in…

— Johnny Carson

The dilemma of our age is the combination of unprecedented material progress and systematic spiritual decline. The decline in public and private…

— King Hussein I

Are we going to continue to yield personal liberties and community autonomy to the steady inexplicable centralization all political power or restore…

— Douglas MacArthur

A form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy…

— Robert O. Paxton

Markets are not, in my opinion, a full solution to any problem. The obvious problem they don't meet is the concerns of…

— Kenneth Arrow

[T]here seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional…

— Robert A. Heinlein

The clearer and deeper the public opinion of the world, in the first instance the opinion of the working masses, will understand…

— Leon Trotsky

“Downward social mobility. We hear a lot about the great social mobility in America with the focus usually on the comparative ease…

— Whit Stillman

I wouldn't necessarily assume that because Capricornia has traditionally been a Labor seat, that it'll go back to the Labor Party this…

— George Brandis

Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies.…

— Janice Rogers Brown