"Societies in decline have no use for visionaries." — Anais Nin

More Decline Quotes

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• Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
• The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the… — Mary Astell
• Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike… — Rowan Atkinson
• What people recognize is that there's a fear that the United States is in an unstoppable decline. They see the… — Michele Bachmann
• I respectfully decline the invitation to join your hallucination. — Scott Adams
• The crisis and recession have led to very low interest rates, it is true, but these events have also destroyed… — Ben Bernanke
• In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number… — Daniel Boone
• We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together. — Jean de la Bruyere
• We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together. — Jean de la Bruyere
• The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time. — Luis Bunuel
• It could fairly be said that America, during the Bush years, has entered an Age of Denial - arguably the… — Graydon Carter
• Since the decline of record companies and music sales, I've always played live. — Adam Ant

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