Decline Quotes - Page 18

• I can't bear Britain in decline. I just can't.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Bears, Britain, I Can

  BBC TV's "Campaign '79" with Michael Cockerell, www.margaretthatcher.org. April 27, 1979.

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• The rise of the ecologist almost exactly parallels the decline of the naturalist.

  Paul Sears

  Naturalist, Parallels

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• A civilization is always judged in its decline.

  Melvin B. Tolson

  Civilization, Judged

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• ...how little our side of the industry did to move its business to the more ethical firms and to make a fuss about conflicted or unethical behavior. Had a number of us moved our business, we might have slowed or even stopped the 30-year slide in conflicted, unethical behavior that we have experienced. I, for one, regret the modest nature of our moves. We all could have done more. We have tolerated a pretty nasty decline in standards. Shame on us.

  Jeremy Grantham

  Regret, Moving, Numbers

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• You are wrong if you think you cannot live without love. I cannot live without it. I do not mean that I go into a decline, develop odd symptoms, became a caricature. I mean that I cannot live well without it. I cannot think or act or speak or write or even dream with any kind of energy in the absence of love. I feel excluded from the living world. I become cold, fish-like, immobile. I implode.

  Anita Brookner

  Love, Dream, Mean

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• One of the most clearly marked trends for over twenty years has been the decline in civil liberties.

  Charles A. Reich

  Years, Liberty, Twenties

  Charles A. Reich (1970). “The Greening of America”

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• I think we may well have some kind of presence there over a period of time... The level of activity that we see today from a military standpoint, I think, will clearly decline. I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency.

  Dick Cheney

  Military, Thinking, Levels

  "Larry King Live" with Larry King, transcripts.cnn.com. May 30, 2005.

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• In nine companies out of ten the factor of fluctuation has been a more dominant and important consideration in the matter of investment than has the factor of long-term growth or decline

  Benjamin Graham

  Long, Growth, Important

  Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”

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• A price decline is of no real importance to the bona fide investor unless it is either very substantial say, more than a third from cost or unless it reflects a known deterioration of consequence in the company's position. In a well-defined bear market many sound common stocks sell temporarily at extraordinary low prices. It is possible that the investor may then have a paper loss of fully 50 per cent on some of his holdings, without any convincing indication that the underlying values have been permanently affected.

  Benjamin Graham

  Real, Loss, Sound

  "The Intelligent Investor: The Classic Text on Value Investing". Book by Benjamin Graham, Chapter II, The Investor and Stock-Market Fluctuations, p. 25, 1949.

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• If you look at any institution in history - look at the Roman Empire - anything in history, and what it looks like when it's peaking. Look at Apple, and how can you say it's not peaking? ... The thing is, it may take another year or two before it starts to decline, but it has to - everything does.

  Trip Hawkins

  Years, Two, Apples

  "Trip Hawkins On Apple". "Edge Online", August 2, 2011.

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• Perpetuating success or sliding into decline is the result of many intersecting forces that reinforce one another directly and indirectly. They are both cause and effect of winning or losing. Winning generates positive forces, losing generates negative forces.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Winning, Negative, Causes

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• On the other hand, heroism is basic to the character of the Nordic peoples. This heroism of the ancient mythic period and this is what is decisive has never been lost, despite times of decline, so long as the Nordic blood was still alive. Heroism, in fact, took many forms, from the warrior nobility of Siegfried or Hercules to the intellectual nobility of Copernicus and Leonardo , the religious nobility of Eckehart and Lagarde, or the political nobility of Frederick the Great and Bismarck , and its substance has remained the same.

  Alfred Rosenberg

  Religious, Character, Warrior

  "The Myth of the Twentieth Century". Book by Alfred Rosenberg, 1930.

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• As we reach the crest of life and look at the path before us, we apprehend that the path no longer ascends but slopes downward toward decline and diminishment. From that point on, concerns about death are never far from mind.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Mind, Age, Looks

  Irvin D. Yalom (2010). “Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death”, p.17, John Wiley & Sons

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• It is enough to have been created, to have embodied for a moment the infinite and tumultuously creative spirit. It is infinitely more than enough to have been used, to have been the rough sketch for some perfected creation. Looking into the future, I saw without sorrow, rather with quiet interest, my own decline and fall.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Fall, Creative, Sorrow

  Olaf Stapledon (1931). “Last and First Men, & Star Maker: Two Science-fiction Novels”, Courier Corporation

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• The human species does not necessarily move in stages from progress to progress ... history and civilization do not advance in tandem. From the stagnation of Medieval Europe to the decline and chaos in recent times on the mainland of Asia and to the catastrophes of two world wars in the twentieth century, the methods of killing people became increasingly sophisticated. Scientific and technological progress certainly does not imply that humankind as a result becomes more civilized.

  Gao Xingjian

  War, Moving, Europe

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• There can be no doubt that the young of today have to be protected against certain poisonous effects inherent in present-day civilization. Five social diseases surround them, even in early childhood. There is the decline in fitness due to modern methods of locomotion; the decline in initiative due to the widespread disease of spectatoritis; the decline in care and skill due to the weakened tradition of craftsmanship; the decline in self-discipline due to the ever-present availability of tranquilizers and stimulants, and the decline in compassion, which William Temple called "spiritual death.

  Kurt Hahn

  Spiritual, Compassion, Self

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• When there is no feeling of accomplishment, children fail to develop properly and old people rapidly decline.

  Joe Whitney

  Children, People, Accomplishment

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• Christmas was on a Sunday in 2005, which had a greater than expected negative impact on retail and classified advertising during the last weekend of our fiscal year. In addition, our California papers had held up well in automotive advertising, but the industry-wide decline in this category reached them in the fourth quarter as well.

  Gary Pruitt

  Sunday, Weekend, California

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• Through exploitation of its influence over global financial affairs, the United States has been able to cover the costs of its hegemonic position, preserve a false domestic prosperity, and mask the consequences of its relative political and economic decline.

  Robert Gilpin

  Political, United States, Cost

  Robert Gilpin (2016). “The Political Economy of International Relations”, p.308, Princeton University Press

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• Among the many factors that make a return to halcyon days of the first decades of the postwar era virtually impossible is the decline of clearly defined political leadership.

  Robert Gilpin

  Political, Eras, Firsts

  Robert Gilpin (2016). “The Political Economy of International Relations”, p.406, Princeton University Press

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• Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.

  Alan Hirsch

  Reflection, Irrelevance, Church

  "The Faith of Leap: Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage (Shapevine)". Book by Alan Hirsch and Michael Frost, 2011.

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• But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.

  Alan Hirsch

  Lying, Long, Trends

  Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2011). “The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage”, p.21, Baker Books

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• Writing with a simplified alphabet checked the power of custom of an oral tradition but implied a decline in the power of expression and the creation of grooves which determined the channels of thought of readers and later writers.

  Harold Innis

  Writing, Expression, Oral Tradition

  Harold Innis (1999). “The Bias of Communication”, p.50, University of Toronto Press

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• An ongoing challenge for Australia is ensuring equity of access to technology. Since the decline in federal funding, many schools are reverting to bring Your Own Device (BYOD) programs and this puts the onus back on families to fund devices.

  Susan Mann

  School, Technology, Australia

  "The Global Search for Education: The Tech Report - From Australia". Interview with C. M. Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2015.

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• Silene, who declines The garish noontide's blazing light; But when the evening crescent shines, Gives all her sweetness to the night.

  Charlotte Turner Smith

  Flower, Night, Light

  Charlotte Turner Smith (2014). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Charlotte Smith (Illustrated)”, p.300, Delphi Classics

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