The US reasserted control over Nicaragua in 1990. Since then, the country has experienced a steep decline. It's now the second poorest… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
He who, having lost one ideal, refuses to give his heart and soul to another and nobler, is like a man who… — Constance Naden Copy Share Image
Condemned to Hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from day to day, By sudden blasts or slow decline Our social comforts… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
And over time, I think, as Iraqi security capacity builds, you'll see American and coalition presence there decline. — John Abizaid Copy Share Image
Science, which is not so attached to 'truth' as it once was, but more to immediate 'effectiveness', is now drifting towards a… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
I think the media and the candidates have got to talk about why the middle class is in decline and why we… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As someone who has enjoyed visiting Russia in the past and can also claim a degree of Russian ancestry, it would make… — Wentworth Miller Copy Share Image
The dynamic of globalisation in financial and economic terms, but also in geopolitical terms, confronts Europeans with a stark choice: live together,… — Jose Manuel Barroso Copy Share Image
If martyrdom is now on the decline, it is not because martyrs are less zealous, but because martyr-mongers are more wise. The… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We conservatives bemoan the decline in values that has besieged our society. Why then should we not abhor the lack of morality… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
It's just silly to look at the incredibly steep decline in the mainline and the clear institutional weakening of Catholicism in the… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
In the same manner, having been reduced by disorder, and sunk to their utmost state of depression, unable to descend lower, they,… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“The couple's physical decline became increasingly obvious with each passing hour. The old man, immobile in bed; Mrs. Adler, all alone, watching… — Armando Lucas Correa Copy Share Image
The imminent demise of the church has been predicted since the middle of the 18th century. This is the regular secular mantra… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
...the reason for [this age's] anxiety and unrest is because in one direction, 'truth' increases in scope and quantity - via science… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Aging nations have arteries clogged with obsolete laws, slowing blood flow and preventing oxygen from reaching all parts of the body politic.… — Jim Cooper Copy Share Image
It's kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, have both been on the decline.… — Dick Schaap Copy Share Image
Public business must always be done by somebody. It will be done by somebody or other. If wise man decline, others will… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Individualism. Narcissism. Value-free choices. These are all key elements in the decline of the practice of mutual accountability in Western churches, among… — David Augsburger Copy Share Image
I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government. — George McGovern Copy Share Image
As parenting declines, the need for policing increases. There will always be a shortage of police if there is a shortage of… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
So the stock market could have a negative wealth effect and weigh on capital spending, but a sharp decline in long-term interest… — Joseph Barbera Copy Share Image
We decline the claim to power by parties which want to own their followers body and soul, and which want to put… — Franz von Papen Copy Share Image
Every great panic we have ever had has been foreshadowed by a general decline in observance of religious principles. — Roger Babson Copy Share Image
The decline of education in North America and I suppose in Western Europe makes it harder to have a common body of… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Every couple years when Mr. [Hugh] Hefner would call, I would very graciously decline, because my mom would kill me, and I… — Cindy Margolis Copy Share Image
I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political. — Stephen Bayley Copy Share Image
It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
When I was young I used to read about the decline of Western civilization, and I decided it was something I would… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
For no one, in our long decline, So dusty, spiteful and divided, Had quite such pleasant friends as mine, Or loved them… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
The decline of violence is a fractal phenomenon. You can see it over millennia, over centuries, over decades and over years. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The enterprise that does not innovate ages and declines. And in a period of rapid change such as the present, the decline… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Hispanics' welfare consumption - and their affinity for the Democratic message - will decline over time as they climb the economic ladder. — Heather Mac Donald Copy Share Image
We see a decline of civility, and, sadly, it’s often modeled by the very people from whom we have the least right… — Max De Pree Copy Share Image
Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
Market leaders inevitably slip into decline when they tell the people what they want instead of giving the people what they want. — Alan Sugar Copy Share Image
The French are very bizarre. There is this collective depiction: 'We're in decline, we're being assailed, we must protect ourselves.' — Alain Juppe Copy Share Image
In my humble opinion, the PC as we have known it is in a continuous decline and being relegated to a utility… — Hector Ruiz Copy Share Image
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