Decline Quotes

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The decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the cause of the destruction multiplied… — Edward Gibbon
It was Rome, on the fifteenth of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing… — Edward Gibbon
It was not Christianity which freed the slave: Christianity accepted slavery; Christian ministers defended it; Christian merchants trafficked in human flesh and blood, and drew… — Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner
The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a species to decline. — Norm Dicks
I know of no severe depression, in any country or any time, that was not accompanied by a sharp decline in the stock of money,… — Milton Friedman
Those externalized costs have always included labor. It is only the decline over time of the minimum wage in real dollars that's made the fast… — Michael Pollan
If we admit instrumental musick in the worship of God, how can we resist the imposition of all the instruments used among the ancient Jews?â€”yea,… — Cotton Mather
It's moving in the right direction. It was in decline under the previous administration. — John Prescott
It's the ideology, stupid. Unless the long-term decline of moderates and rise of conservatives is reversed during the next two years, the ideological balance of… — William Galston
The paradox of the English country house is that its state of permanent decline, the fact that its heyday is always behind it, is part… — Lev Grossman
I might inform those humanitarians who have a nightmare of new and needless babies (for some humanitarians have that sort of horror of humanity) that… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Even though some down payments are borrowed, it would take a large, and historically most unusual, fall in home prices to wipe out a significant… — Alan Greenspan
The standard of living of the average American has to decline. — Paul Volcker
Gentlemen, if we don't cut spending we will be bankrupt. Yes, the medicine is harsh, but the patient requires it in order to live. Should… — Margaret Thatcher
There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick. — Alastair Campbell
We must carry the war into every corner the enemy happens to carry it, to his home, to his centers of entertainment: a total war.… — Che Guevara
For instance, why are we terrorizing this country, leading with murder and mayhem, when crime is actually on the decline, as somebody, as somebody mentioned? — Christiane Amanpour
Worthy persons deserve to be called so because they are not carried away by the eight winds: prosperity,decline,disgrace,honor,praise,censure,suffering, and pleasure.They are neither elated by prosperity… — Nichiren
To keep any great nation up to a high standard of civilization there must be enough superior characters to hold the balance of power, but… — Christian D. Larson
A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her people,… — Will Durant

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