The Stones suggested that if you dabble in decadence, you could turn into a devil-worshipping junkie. Paul McCartney suggested that if you… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
I think Americans are good, but America will be taken over and destroyed from the inside by the Zionist lobby. The Americans… — Muammar al-Gaddafi Copy Share Image
“Here, in Lorrain's poisoned little jewel of a tale (“The Man Who Made Wax Heads”) the consummate achievement of decadent art is… — Jennifer Birkett Copy Share Image
“(Decadent style) is ingenious, complicated, learned, full of shades of meaning and research, always pushing further the limits of language... forcing itself… — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
“But the trouble is that conscious futility is something only for the young. One cannot go on "despairing of life" in to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“After two years' absence she finally returned to chilly Europe, a trifle weary, a trifle sad, disgusted by our banal entertainments, our… — Octave Mirbeau Copy Share Image
“I know that [civilized men] do nothing but boast incessantly of the peace and repose they enjoy in their chains… But when… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Later, Aldapuerta spent two years at medical school where he learned the geography of the human body and something of its almost… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Against a set of desolate scenery, amid spectral crags and livid mountains of ash, beneath the funereal daylight of slopes illuminated in… — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
There was no manifestation of contemporary culture that did not indicate to my grandmother how steadfast was the nation's decline, how merciless… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Misgovernment is of four kinds, often in combination. They are: 1) tyranny or oppression, of which history provides so many well-known examples… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
“It is precisely, if paradoxically, because reversal is in the service of repetition (so as to ensure, alongside its companion strategies, a… — Janet Beizer Copy Share Image
“Society has three stages: Savagery, Ascendance, Decadence. The great rise because of Savagery. They rule in Ascendance. They fall because of their… — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
Rome tolerated every abominable practice, embraced every foul idea in the name of freedom and the rights of the common man. Citizens… — Francine Rivers Copy Share Image
“March 1898 What a strange dream I had last night! I wandered in the warm streets of a port, in the low… — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
“Lady Sarah Henbery was his hostess, and the inspired projector of a new scheme of existence (that was, in effect, the repudiation… — Bernard Capes Copy Share Image
I certainly do not lament the decadence of knight errantry, nor wish to exchange the protection of the laws for that of… — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
“In this image (watching sensual murder through a peephole) Lorrain embodies the criminal delight of decadent art. The watcher who records the… — Jennifer Birkett Copy Share Image
“Like symbolism, decadence puts forth the idea that the function of literature is to evoke impressions and 'correspondences', rather than to realistically… — Asti Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“It is well known how the book spread like an infectious disease, from city to city, from continent to continent, barred out… — Robert W. Chambers Copy Share Image
“The Marquis de V... - whose falsetto voice and little watery eyes I have always detested - was saying to me with… — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
“Stop sleeping, Get to work! You will have much time to sleep when you die.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“licentious. Despite all they’d done, the decadence was stimulating. She” — Aleatha Romig Copy Share Image
“Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.” — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
As a youth, I sought out decadence; as an elder, I try to avoid decay. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“Oh, my dear, how too marvelous! I've longed all my life to eat a flamingo.” — Compton Mackenzie Copy Share Image
“Everyone in a decadent society, Lorrain urges, is guilty. Everyone loves masking murder and everyone takes masochistic pleasure in the risk of… — Jennifer Birkett Copy Share Image
“For Zola, as for Huysmans, nature itself is uncanny because it is the domain of the feminine, a domain that is constitutionally… — Charles Bernheimer Copy Share Image
In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry; in its decadence, philosophy and logic. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
A city built upon mud; A culture built upon profit; Free speech nipped in the bud, The minority always guilty. Why should… — Louis MacNeice Copy Share Image
History shows that male homosexuality, which like prostitution flourishes with urbanization and soon becomes predictably ritualized, always tends toward decadence — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“While the Gods are powerful, we learn little about them. It is only in their day of decadence that a strong light… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
For me, I wanted to create something that's much more driven by a type of selfishness, a type of decadence. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
“decadence begins when men no longer find within themselves a reason to relate their lives to that of others and not when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“At issue for Peladan is the potency of the visual image: art's ability to construct images for viewing that can mobilize, concentrate… — Jennifer Birkett Copy Share Image
Let's acknowledge that America's increasing decadence is giving aid and comfort to the enemy. When we tolerate trash on television, permit pornography… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
Fascism was an explosion against intolerable conditions, against remediable wrongs which the old world failed to remedy. It was a movement to… — Oswald Mosley Copy Share Image
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