Decline Quotes

474 Decline quotes by 395 unique authors

The danger of tautological propositions is considerable in discussions of the concept of normal profits. Because supernormal profits seem to invite newcomers to an industry… — Fritz Machlup
There's no denying that a collapse in stock prices today would pose serious macroeconomic challenges for the United States. Consumer spending would slow, and the… — Ben Bernanke
It's not a choice between our environment and our economy; it's a choice between prosperity and decline. — Barack Obama
In the Middle East, where populations are growing fast, the world is seeing the first collision between population growth and water supply at the regional… — Lester R. Brown
If her functioning as a female is not enough to define woman, if we decline also to explain her through "the eternal feminine," and if… — Simone de Beauvoir
From the point of view of the Christian faith, man comes in the profoundest sense to himself not through what he does but through what… — Pope Benedict XVI
The proliferation of state concealed carry laws has evidently reduced the rate of violent street crime to a considerable extent. When the goblins do not… — Jeff Cooper
The dilemma of our age is the combination of unprecedented material progress and systematic spiritual decline. The decline in public and private morality can be… — King Hussein I
What we call 'economic growth' is in fact a growth in waste and a decline in the health of natural habitat — Satish Kumar
He reflected on the decay of mankind-the decline of the human race into folly and weakness and rottenness. 'Be a good animal, true to your… — D. H. Lawrence
Rising oil prices have focused the world's attention on the depletion of oil reserves. But the depletion of underground water resources from overpumping is a… — Lester R. Brown
The choice is ours-yours and mine. We can stay with business as usual and preside over a global bubble economy that keeps expanding until it… — Lester R. Brown
For no one, in our long decline,So dusty, spiteful and divided,Had quite such pleasant friends as mine,Or loved them half as much as I did.… — Hilaire Belloc
Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually suffers a loss of energy in its presence. The effect… — Friedrich Nietzsche
My life is a stairway to heaven, not a 'decline into decrepitude. — Jane Fonda
Weve been taught that aging means decline of the mind and body , but that doesnt have to be the case. With TIMELESS YOU, I… — Deepak Chopra
Ronald Reagan was an anti-government, union-busting, race baiting, anti-abortion, anti-gay, anti-intellectual, who cut rich people's taxes in half, had a incurable case of the military-industrial… — Bill Maher
Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is:… — Unknown Author
The old river in its broad reach rested unruffled at the decline of day, after ages of good service done to the race that peopled… — Joseph Conrad
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties,… — Eric Hoffer
I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene. — Harold Bloom
There is no trajectory so pathetic as that of an artist in decline. — Edward Abbey
What matters in the end in literature, what is always there, is the truly good. And- though played out forms can throw up miraculous sports… — V.S. Naipaul
Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to… — Philip Roth
A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him… — William Graham Sumner

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