In civilization, as in a southern latitude, man degenerates at length, and yields to the incursion of more northern tribes. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Luxury and excessive refinement are sure forerunners of the decadence of states, because when all individuals seek their own interests they neglect… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld 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
All of the spiritualities that are now clamoring for attention, from explicit Satanism to what we hear on Oprah, are concerned with… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Our institutions, if they do not erode entirely, can survive periods of decadence brought on by our material success, eras when the… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
But Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had over-reached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently,… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Fundamentalists believe that we don't believe in anything. In their view of the world, they are in possession of absolute certainties, while… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The horse is, like man, the most beautiful and the most miserable of creatures, only, in the case of man, it is… — Rosa Bonheur Copy Share Image
“Those very superficial sensualists and profligates who lead the dance of Latin decadence have not seen, among their dancing girls and their… — Josephin Peladan 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
“The famous courtesan Clarimonde died recently, as the result of an orgy which lasted eight days and eight nights. It was something… — Théophile Gautier Copy Share Image
It does if you put yourself out there being a pirate. It's like if you have an army and your army sit… — Ray Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Through silent alleys where dark shadows fleeted past them like forest beasts on the prowl; through bustling market-places where bloaters predominated, into… — Hume Nisbet Copy Share Image
When a republic's most venerable institutions no longer operate as they were intended, it becomes possible for small cabals to usurp power,… — T. D. Allman Copy Share Image
“There were charming ones as well as terrible ones, that I must admit. The painter was particularly entranced by Japanese masks: warriors',… — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
It is rather the nature of America - our freewheeling, outspoken, prosperous, liberty-loving citizens extend equality to women, homosexuals, minorities, and almost… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
“Superficially, the figure in the smoking-room was that of a long, weedy young man - hairless as to his face; scalped with… — Bernard Capes Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Scamler,’ she said, ‘do you study French, ma'am?’ ‘I do, indeed,’ I said; ‘two hours a day.’ ‘Then, ma’am,’ she says,… — John Davidson Copy Share Image
The inside operation of Congress - the deals, the compromises, the selling out, the co-opting, the unprincipled manipulating, the self-serving career-building -… — Bella Abzug Copy Share Image
I wanted him to feel what I felt when I was with him: that incredible combination of comfort, decadence, and wonder; the… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable incontemporary writing,… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
The history of prevailing status quos shows decay and decadence infecting the opulent materialism of the Haves. The spiritual life of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The American system is a beautiful and durable thing, but flawed. I would like to think that this decadence is not sustainable,… — Mark Leibovich Copy Share Image
“The exotic and the erotic ideals go hand in hand, and this fact also contributes another proof of a more or less… — Mario Praz Copy Share Image
“I wouldn't want [the people of Baleyworld] to live that long as a general thing. The pace of historical and intellectual advance… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
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
Sundance [festival] is all your Hollywood buds and buddies and rolling out and high-fiving and "Hell, yeah. Here comes the movie," and… — David Gordon Green Copy Share Image
I'm an ambitious person. I mean, if I did that... I would self-destruct, in the sense that the decadence would be too… — James Packer Copy Share Image
The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy;… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
All writing, all art, is an act of faith. If one tries to contribute to human understanding, how can that be called… — Truman Capote 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
“This,' said the stranger softly, as if to himself, 'is the woeful proof, indeed, of decadence. Man waives his prerogative of lordship… — Bernard Capes 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
“The conventional use of words and of narrative structure is deliberately subverted in decadent fiction; language deviates from the established norms in… — Asti Hustvedt Copy Share Image
![“I wouldn't want [the people of Baleyworld] to live that long as a general thing. The pace of historical and intellectual advance would then become too slow. Those at the top would stay in power too long. Baleyworld would sink into conversation and decay - as your world has done.” quote by Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b92/isaac-asimov-309_complacency_i-wouldn-t-want-the-people-of-baleyworld_1779163.jpg)
![“Sundance [festival] is all your Hollywood buds and buddies and rolling out and high-fiving and "Hell, yeah. Here comes the movie," and in Venice, it's very elegant, and respectful...It's decadence. It's such a fun way to formalize a movie that is for us a down-and-dirty, gritty movie. And to see…” quote by David Gordon Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/402/david-gordon-green-18404_bud_sundance-festival-is-all-your-hollywood_1256634.jpg)
