Decay Quote by Walter Savage Landor Download Open image “States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay.” — Walter Savage Landor ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Decay Growth Manhood Men States
States are doomed when they are unable to distinguish good men from bad. — Antisthenes Copy Share Image
A state too expensive in itself, or by virtue of its dependencies, ultimately falls into decay. — Simon Bolivar Copy Share Image
States have their conversions and periods as well as naturall bodies. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of man, that state is obsolete — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
The state is a means to an end. Its end lies in the preservation and advancement of a community of physically and psychically homogenous… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Man is not made for the State but the State for man and it derives its just powers only from the consent of the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In terms of morals there is no such thing as ‘state.’ Just men. Individuals. Each responsible for his own acts. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Ah what avails the sceptred race, Ah what the form divine! What every virtue, every grace! Rose Aylmer, all were thine. Rose Aylmer, whom… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them ... so there are some… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
We care not how many see us in choler, when we rave and bluster, and make as much noise and bustle as we can;… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
One reason why my memory decays is that I have three cats, all so loving and insistent that they play cat's-cradle with every train… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
I've always thought that the most extraordinary special effect you could do is to buy a child at the moment of its birth, sit… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
We think literature is immortal, but even that decays and ultimately turns to dust. — Mick Farren Copy Share Image
Wise people are able to give themselves gracefully to seemingly contradictory experiences, because they know that they belong to different seasons of life, all… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It seems that the whole world is beginning to decay, and that its putrefaction has chosen to spread outward from here, from the land… — Yasmina Khadra Copy Share Image
No government can be strong and flourishing while the national character is weak and degraded. A government must flourish and decay with its subjects;… — Benjamin Robbins Curtis Copy Share Image
But the grind has begun. The windows don’t open, and even the availability of near-constant jokes about Jews and Mormons fails to stem the… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Cocaine decisions that you make today, will mean nothing later on when you get nose decay. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
“They went through the last of the cars and then walked up the track to the locomotive and climbed up to the catwalk. Rust… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Youth should be radical. Youth should demand change in the world. Youth should not accept the old order if the world is to move… — William Allen White Copy Share Image
