Decline Quotes - Page 22

• Aging nations have arteries clogged with obsolete laws, slowing blood flow and preventing oxygen from reaching all parts of the body politic. Physicians call this arteriosclerosis; historians see decline of empire.

  Jim Cooper

  Oxygen, Blood, Law

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• Walking is the only way proven to stave off cognitive decline - it works.

  Dan Buettner

  Way, Walking, Proven

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• Perhaps Western civilization is in a post-decline phase, or maybe the decline is just taking a really long time, like the Roman Empire's did. The Romans had gladiators and Christian-hungry lions and that sort of thing. We have MTV.

  Tom Shales

  Christian, Civilization, Hungry Lion

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• I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Atheism, Hebrew, Accepting

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• I am much afraid that we shall have very greatly hastened the decline and ruin of the New World by our contagion, and that we willhave sold it our opinions and our arts very dear.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Art, Civilization, America

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• The biblical picture is not one of an upward, linear progress or a precipitous, downward decline. It is a more complicated picture of a fallen world in which there is a gospel of power.

  Russell D. Moore

  Biblical, Progress, Fallen World

  Source: sojo.net

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• We have experienced highly challenging global market conditions in the past quarter with significant steel price decline in all regions.

  Lakshmi Mittal

  Motivational, Past, Challenges

  "Mittal profits drop by 63% but steel group still seeks big buys" by Terry Macalister, www.theguardian.com. November 9, 2005.

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• One reason for the decline in moral values is that the world has invented a new, constantly changing and undependable standard of moral conduct referred to as "situational ethics." Now, individuals define good and evil as being adjustable according to each situation; this is in direct contrast to the proclaimed God-given absolute standard: "Thou shalt not!"-as in "Thou shalt not steal".

  David B. Haight

  Evil, World, Absolutism

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• Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.

  Edward Young

  Wish, Shadow, Age

  Edward Young (1806). “Night Thoughts, on Life, Death, and Immortality ... With the life of the author. [With plates, including a portrait.]”, p.101

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• A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal.

  Ted Turner

  Nwo, Eugenics, People

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• Public business must always be done by somebody. It will be done by somebody or other. If wise man decline, others will not; if honest man refuse it, others will not.

  John Adams

  Wise, Men, Done

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• During the Cold War, we gathered information by listening to the Soviets, taking pictures of the Soviets, and we allowed our human intelligence to decline.

  Bob Graham

  War, Aggravation, Listening

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• There is a connection waiting to be made between the decline in democratic participation and the explosion in new ways of communicating. We need not accept the paradox that gives us more ways than ever to speak, and leaves the public with a wider feeling than ever before that their voices are not being heard. The new technologies can strengthen our democracy, by giving us greater opportunities than ever before for better transparency and a more responsive relationship between government and electors

  Robin Cook

  Technology, Opportunity, Government

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• If the decline of Christianity created the modern political zealot - and his crimes - so the evaporation of religious faith among the educated left a vacuum in the minds of Western intellectuals easily filled by secular superstition. There is no other explanation for the credulity with which scientists, accustomed to evaluating evidence, and writers, whose whole function was to study and criticize society, accepted the crudest Stalinist propaganda at its face value. They needed to believe; they wanted to be duped.

  Paul Johnson

  Religious, Believe, Political

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• It should be remembered that a decline of 50% fully offsets a preceding advance of 100%.

  Benjamin Graham

  Investing, Should, Remembered

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• I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

  Colin Wilson

  Believe, World, Ability

  Colin Wilson (2014). “The Outsider”, p.13, Diversion Books

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• One of the enduring lessons of history is that whenever an empire becomes insular to 'protect' itself, intellectual decline and cultural intolerance are sure to follow.

  Irshad Manji

  Intellectual, Lessons, Empires

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• If someone lies down and invites you to trample upon him, you are a remarkable individual if you decline the invitation.

  Barbara Mertz

  Lying, Weakness, Down And

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• The state sometimes makes mistakes. When one of these mistakes occurs, one notes a decline in collective enthusiasm due to the effect of a quantitative diminution in each of the elements that make up the mass. Work is paralyzed until it is reduced to an insignificant level. It is time to make a correction.

  Che Guevara

  Mistake, Elements, Enthusiasm

  "Socialism and Man in Cuba". www.marxists.org. March 12, 1965.

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• Even the strongest personality will regress and eventually may disintegrate if there is no incentive (other than threat of punishment) for the work he does. When there is no feeling to accomplishment, children fail to develop properly and old people rapidly decline.

  Joe Whitney

  Children, Work, Punishment

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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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• I believe that lack of empathy is behind many problems, and I believe that it's disrupting our society. In Great Britain, there is a steady decline in the willingness to be truly generous, and by that I don't mean monetary generosity, but friendship and sympathy for others.

  J. K. Rowling

  Believe, Mean, Generosity

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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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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• Compassion is something we can count on. Even if we face economic problems and our fortunes decline, we can still share our compassion with our fellow human beings. National and global economies are subject to many ups and downs, but through them all we can retain a compassionate attitude that will carry us through.

  Dalai Lama

  Attitude, Compassion, Faces

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