Any society which does not insist upon respect for all life must necessarily decay. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I don't do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision. — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
The body is subject to the law of growth and decay, what grows must of necessity decay. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The beginning is always so fine!! But decay soon follows. A degeneration into the tired old situation. The rot sets in. This… — Jhonen Vasquez Copy Share Image
Without adventure all civilization is full of decay. Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
For no matter what learned scientists may say, race is, politically speaking, not the beginning of humanity but its end, not the… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
What more could you want? How about dominion over this 'beautiful place'? Beauty doesn't last. Friends and family decay. Power is the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Setting is preliminary to brighter rising; decay is a process of advancement; death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
I suppose I am gently cynical about notions of who we think we are, but I certainly don't hate my fellow man.… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
Sad that our finest aspiration, Our freshest dreams and meditations, In swift succession should decay, Like Autumn leaves that rot away. — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
Female beauties are as fickle in their faces as in their minds; though casualties should spare them, age brings in a necessity… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
What is to be done? We who are still half alive, living in the often fibrillating heartland of a senescent capitalism --… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
Churches may decay and perish; riches may make themselves wings and fly away-but he who builds their happiness on Christ crucified and… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
I acquired more wealth, power, and prestige than most. But you can acquire all you want and still feel empty. It took… — Lee Atwater Copy Share Image
Many ask me whether pranayama ... postpones old age. Why worry about it? Death is certain. Let it come when it comes.… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
When trees mature, it is fair and moral that they are cut for man's use, as they would soon decay and return… — George Nakashima Copy Share Image
Munch writes poetry with color. He has taught himself to see the full potential of color in art His use of color… — Sigbjørn Obstfelder Copy Share Image
There is one great fact, characteristic of this our nineteenth century, a fact which no party dares deny. On the one hand,… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
There is something about the Himalayas not possessed by the Alps, something unseen and unknown, a charm that pervades every hour spent… — Frank Smythe Copy Share Image
“In the end, the slow decay of the body didn't matter. We all continue on, renewing ourselves, through our offspring. They are… — Andy Lane Copy Share Image
Death, is not an end, but a transition crisis. All the forms of decay are but masks of regeneration--the secret alembics of… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them… — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The real jewel of my disease-ridden woodlot is the prothonotary warbler. ... The flash of his gold-and-blue plumage amid the dank decay… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
“Life is Not a perpetual climb towards Greatness. For our family, ourselves, and friends, It is but sad Decay, so, Let every… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Today, we are on a path of decay. We are seeing the book close on five decades of accomplishment as the leader… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All beautiful and noble qualities have been united in me... I shall be the fruit which will leave eternal vitality behind even… — Egon Schiele Copy Share Image
Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Evil springs up, and flowers, and bears no seed, And feeds the green earth with its swift decay, Leaving it richer for… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten, when their noblest and most enduring works decay? Death comes even to monumental… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
He reflected on the decay of mankind-the decline of the human race into folly and weakness and rottenness. 'Be a good animal,… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Being a creator of a song I get to take all these broken fragments of failure and chaos and weave together something… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
The natural world operates by its own set of rules. The animal world, all the places that are feral and ungovernable, that's… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
We know that our senses are subject to decay, that from our middle years they are decaying all the time; but happily… — William Henry Hudson Copy Share Image
Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise. Loathsomeness waits and dreams in the deep,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nothing gives a sadder sense of decay than this loss or suspension of the power to deal with unaccustomed things, and to… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
You that in far-off countries of the sky can dwell secure, look back upon me here; for I am weary of this… — Murasaki Shikibu Copy Share Image
Outward attacks and troubles rather fix than unsettle the Christian, as tempests from without only serve to root the oak faster; while… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
It is Enterprise which build and improves the world's possessions...If Enterprise is afoot, Wealth accumulates whatever may be happening to Thrift; and… — John Maynard Keynes 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
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