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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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Antonin Artaud
- I became the toast of London. A lot of people I met came from these really decadent families where the married men… — Robert Mapplethorpe
- We are heirs of the ages because throughout the ages mankind has devised and fashioned new things, and step by step added… — Arthur Lynch
- Rome ... at its most decadent, had never thought of hiring an actor to go through the motions of being an emperor… — 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.… — Saul Alinsky
- England is, after all, the land where children were beaten, wives and babies bashed, football hooligans crunch, and Miss Whip and Miss… — Colin MacInnes