Decay Quotes

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

Great nations do not succumb through lost wars, but rather through racial decay and the destruction of their internal order.

Let the entire system of government be strengthened, and let the balance of power be drawn up in such a manner that it will be permanent and incapable of decay because of its own tenuity.

Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.

Life passes, riches fly away, popularity is fickle, the senses decay, the world changes. One alone is true to us; One alone can be all things to us; One alone can supply our need.

My way of life Is fall'n into the sear and yellow leaf.

I don't do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision.

Backward we traveled to reclaim the day Before we fell, like Icarus, undone; All we find are altars in decay And profane words scrawled black across the sun.

For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.

The dumbing down of America is evident in the slow decay of substantive content, a kind of celebration of ignorance.

Any growing interest in soccer can only be a sign of the nation's moral decay.

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.

Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.

Royalty is the gold filling in a mouthful of decay

We begin to die from the moment we are born, for birth is the cause of death. The nature of decay is inherent in youth, the nature of sickness is inherent in health, in the midst of life we are verily in death.

Surely revival delays because prayer decays.

Aging is a staircase - the upward ascension of the human spirit, bringing us into wisdom, wholeness and authenticity. As you may know, the entire world operates on a universal law: entropy, the second law of thermodynamics. Entropy means that everything in the world, everything, is in a state of decline and decay, the arch. There's only one exception to this universal law, and that is the human spirit, which can continue to evolve upwards.

Wealth accumulates, and men decay.

I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.

Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.

If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.

The essence of decay is inactivity.

In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is when a state is in decay that the multitude of crimes is a gaurantee of impunity.

Among the many reasons assignable for the sad decay of true Christianity, perhaps the neglecting to assemble ourselves together, in religious societies, may not be one of the least.

Youth should be radical. Youth should demand change in the world. Youth should not accept the old order if the world is to move on. But the old orders should not be moved easily - certainly not at the mere whim or behest of youth. There must be clash and if youth hasn't enough force or fervor to produce the clash the world grows stale and stagnant and sour in decay.