Decadent Quotes

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I don't go to the sale rack. But I wouldn't say I am decadent in my spending. I am careful. — Madonna Ciccone
There has been one persistent theme through all Axis propaganda. This theme has been that Americans are admittedly rich, that Americans have considerable industrial power… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
All writing, all art, is an act of faith. If one tries to contribute to human understanding, how can that be called decadent? It's like… — Truman Capote
Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them. — Emile Durkheim
We must have no carelessness in our dealings with public property or the expenditure of public money. Such a condition is characteristic either of an… — Calvin Coolidge
When people accept futility and the absurd as normal, the culture is decadent. — Jacques Barzun
The idea of a detached art, of poetry as a charm which exists only to distract our leisure, is a decadent idea and an unmistakable… — Antonin Artaud
I became the toast of London. A lot of people I met came from these really decadent families where the married men were gay and… — Robert Mapplethorpe
We are heirs of the ages because throughout the ages mankind has devised and fashioned new things, and step by step added new conquests to… — Arthur Lynch
Rome ... at its most decadent, had never thought of hiring an actor to go through the motions of being an emperor while the Praetorian… — Gore Vidal
Organization for action will now and in the decade ahead center upon America's white middle class. That is where the power is. ... Our rebels… — Saul Alinsky
England is, after all, the land where children were beaten, wives and babies bashed, football hooligans crunch, and Miss Whip and Miss Lash ply their… — Colin MacInnes
In the final analysis, the incident is seen as originating from an emotional expression of the frustration and anger of the proud people of China… — Chen-Ning Yang
The dictionary definition of a Christian is one who follows Christ; kind, kindly, Christ-like. Anarchism is voluntary cooperation for good, with the right of secession.… — Ammon Hennacy
A Christian Anarchist does not depend on bullets or ballots to achieve his ideal; he achieves that ideal daily by the One Man Revolution with… — Ammon Hennacy
Christianity was created by some decadent and degenerated Romans as a tool of oppression, in the late Roman era, and it should be treated accordingly.… — Varg Vikernes
The bigger the headquarters the more decadent the company. — James Goldsmith
Europe is like the Roman Empire - indulged, decadent, flooded with immigrants and unprepared to fight for its culture. — Filip Dewinter
We shall begin by launching the most spectacular peace movement on record. There will be electrifying overtures and unheard of concessions. The capitalist countries, stupid… — Dmitry Manuilsky
Cruelty practiced as a matter of social principle or public policy, and presented to the community as a means to a higher goal is the… — Vernon Howard

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