The decline and fall of a civilization is barely noticed…

“was barely noticed, but I wasn’t bothered by the lack of recognition.”

— Rebecca Donovan

“Sleep with him like that, so we were both just small, barely noticed punctuation in the huge book of life.”

— Harlem Dae

“I'm like the wallpaper, there but barely noticed.”

— Mark Peter Hughes

“Sometimes information you barely noticed consciously comes back to you of its own accord.”

— Lindsey Davis

“The sun was hot on his back, but he barely noticed. It paled by comparison to the warmth that was seeping into his soul.”

— Heather Burch

I barely noticed loneliness anymore; it was my normal condition, by necessity if not by nature.

— Rachel Hartman

When I was young I used to read about the decline of Western civilization, and I decided it was something I would like to…

— George Carlin

“A civilization, when the moment has come for crowds to acquire a high hand over it, is at the mercy of too many chances…

— Gustave Le Bon

“There is a great deal of ruin in a nation.”

— Adam Smith

A major cause of the Roman Empire's decline, after six centuries of world dominance was its replacement of stone aqueducts by lead pipes for…

— Harris L Coulter

Throughout history government has seldom hesitated from robbing its citizens in a crisis.

— James Cook

This knowledge, the knowledge that the physical well-being of the citizen is an important foundation for all of the activities of the nation, is…

— John F. Kennedy

I want to say unequivocally that while I cherish every person who comes from anywhere, who comes here legally and seeks to pursue happiness,…

— Newt Gingrich

When a man imagines, even after years of striving, that he has attained perfection, his decline begins.

— Theodore Martin

Among the many factors that make a return to halcyon days of the first decades of the postwar era virtually impossible is the decline…

— Robert Gilpin