An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
I studied the Koran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction there have been few religions in… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“I was performing my ritual of sipping tea, shooting flirtatious glances and planning murder” — Mingmei Yip Copy Share Image
As the scale of football finances increases, we see and hear of the decadence, irresponsibility and greed of the modern player. — Simon Jordan 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
When I came to America, there was a lot of decadence in New York in the early '70s because the city was… — Maripol 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
The vitality of a culture is in its capacity to assimilate foreign influences. The culture that's defensive and closed condemns itself to… — Juan Goytisolo Copy Share Image
The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
I want my children to be bold,free,self-reliant and capable of changing the phase of that portion of the earth where they live.… — Amun Djoleto Copy Share Image
For this remains as I have already pointed out the essential difference between the two religions of decadence : Buddhism promises nothing,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The story of the decadence of the cathedral as a moral power, a spiritual energizer in civilization, is the sad but inevitable… — Jenkin Lloyd Jones Copy Share Image
“The fascinated loathing which he (Jean Lorrain) cultivated for the decadence of fin de siecle Paris has a good deal of envy… — Francis Amery Copy Share Image
I'd also hope that my liberal friends, who find in this pope a critic of what they're pleased to call "culture-warrior" Catholics,… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
As an artist I am attracted by decadence, by those who exhaust their lives in the shallow pursuits of pleasure. Occasionally, I… — Emil Nolde Copy Share Image
It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will;… — Friedrich Nietzsche 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 the end, this volume should be read a s a collection of love stories, Above all, they are tales of love,… — Asti Hustvedt 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
“Rose was patently a degenerate. Nature, in scheduling his characteristics, had pruned all superlatives. The rude armour of the flesh, under which… — Bernard Capes 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
“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
“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
“By living a life “against nature,” the deviant or pervert becomes a hero or heroine in decadent fiction.” — Asti Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Decadence is the total loss of unconsciousness, which is the very basis of life. Could it think, the heart would stop beating. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
The parliamentary principle of decision by majorities only appears during quite short periods of history, and those are always periods of decadence… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“For – as everyone knows – in libertinism bad taste is a potent force. ("A Woman's Vengeance")” — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share Image
Limited means often constitute the charm and force of primitive painting. Extension, on the contrary, leads the arts to decadence. — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
What we now have is the freedom which attends decadence, or the decadence which attends freedom. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Here, I thought, I had found the human race in its final stages of decadence perverse, insouciant, without ambition. And I could… — Michael Moorcock 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
“Decadence begins when the budget to beautify a man's home exceeds the coin spent to ensure its defense.” — Mark Lawrence 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 this age of decadence that we live in, people's minds are twisted and only words are loved but not preactial deeds.” — Renee Ahdieh 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
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
You gotta eat right, you gotta have healthy habits, you know, and balance out your decadence with a healthy lifestyle during the… — Talib Kweli 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
“Decline is also a form of voluptuousness, just like growth. Autumn is just as sensual as springtime. There is as much greatness… — Iwan Goll 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 I see [barbarous man] sacrifice pleasures, repose, wealth, power, and life itself for the preservation of this sole good which is so disdained by those who have lost it; when I…” quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b98/jean-jacques-rousseau-418_born-free_i-know-that-civilized-men-do-nothing-but_1084258.jpg)
