"Most human organizations that fall short of their……" — James A. Garfield
"Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so not because of stupidity or faulty doctrines, but because of internal decay and rigidification."
More Decay Quotes
- Progress, this great heresy of decay. — Charles Baudelaire
- Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object. — Joseph Addison
- The human body is constantly undergoing a process of decay and of reconstruction. First builded into the astral form in… — Annie Besant
- Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. — Ambrose Bierce
- All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of… — Theodor Adorno
- Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay. — Robert Browning
- A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay. — Amos Bronson Alcott
- False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation… — Richard Burton
- The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of… — John C. Calhoun
- A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of… — Maurice Chevalier
- The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- As the tree is fertilized by its own broken branches and fallen leaves, and grows out of its own decay,… — Frederick William Robertson