One of the most pathetic aspects of human history is that every civilization expresses itself most pretentiously, compounds its partial and universal… — Reinhold Niebuhr 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
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
If the British Empire is fated to pass from life into history, we must hope it will not be by the slow… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The decay of decency in the modern age, the rebellion against law and good faith, the treatment of human beings as things,… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
She seemed to belong to that pagan, primitive kingdom of birds and forests where everything was infinitely abundant, wild, blooming, and royal… — Jerzy Kosinski Copy Share Image
Slavery is no scholar, no improver; it does not love the whistle of the railroad; it does not love the newspaper, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Incrementalism: In the first generation, the goal of the movement was wholesale social and cultural transformation. Small, incremental victories were too little… — Kenneth D. Wald Copy Share Image
O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wreckful siege of battering days, When rocks impregnable are not so stout,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Summe up at night what thou hast done by day; And in the morning what thou hast to do. Dresse and undresse… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
Chance and change are busy ever;Man decays, and ages move;But His mercy waneth never;God is wisdom, God is love. — John Bowring Copy Share Image
I masturbate. A lot. And yet, I don't floss because it's too much of a hassle. Ten seconds of joy over a… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
I just have to think of Philadelphia now, and I get ideas, I hear the wind, and I'm off into the darkness… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
If you have only two or three things that you can enjoy and they are things which time and decay may remove… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
There can be no reasonable right to live on sidewalks. Society needs order, and hence has a right to a minimally civilized… — George Will Copy Share Image
Homosexuality is not a civil right. Its rise almost always is accompanied, as in the Weimar Republic, with a decay of society… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
I am quite confident that the most important part of a human being is not his physical body but his nonphysical essence,… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
It is a universal principle that whenever one refuses to use his God-given powers, these powers decay and perish. — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
Every day His servants are dying modestly and peacefully--not a word of victory on their lips; but Christ's deep triumph in their… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is the intermixing of different genres. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There is a story of some mountains of salt in Cumana, which never diminished, though carried away in much abundance by merchants;… — Herbert Spencer 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
High quality water is more than the dream of the conservationists, more than a political slogan; high quality water, in the right… — Richard Bangs Copy Share Image
