Growth Quote by Albert Einstein

Progress of mankind is the decadence of humanity.

— Siddharth Katragadda

“Decadence is an elusive concept, resistant to concise definition. In the broadest sense one might explain it as a delight in or preoccupation with…

— David J. Bell

“Decadence begins with the loss of restraint.”

— Robert Pogue Harrison

“Decadence is a moral and spiritual disease, resulting from too long a period of wealth and power, producing cynicism, decline of religion, pessimism and…

— John Bagot Glubb

“What history gives us leaves upon us, on the contrary, the impression of decadence rather than of an advancing civilization.”

— Herman Bavinck

One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance.

— Robert Silverberg

It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The desire to build a risk-free society has always been a sign of decadence. It has meant that the nation has given up, that…

— Henry Fairlie

When the storytelling goes bad in a society, the result is decadence.

— Aristotle

But Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had over-reached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently, it was…

— E. M. Forster

“Society has three stages: Savagery, Ascendance, Decadence. The great rise because of Savagery. The rule in Ascendance. They fall because of their own Decadence.”

— Pierce Brown

I don't see decadence really as what you do, because I don't do much at all that is decadent in my life. But I…

— Marianne Faithfull