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Fascism is capitalism in decay. -- Vladimir Lenin
And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all. -- Edgar Allan Poe
Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind. -- Thomas Jefferson
I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth. -- Henry Miller
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. -- Harold Wilson
There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire. -- Theodor Adorno
Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk. -- George MacDonald
In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it. -- Ernst Fischer
The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism. -- John C. Calhoun
Decay is as inevitable as death, as nothing lives in this temporary world for eternity -- Usama Hussain
Decay and disease are often beautiful, like the pearly tear of the shellfish and the hectic glow of consumption. -- Henry David Thoreau
Behold the grapes and all the fruits that Autumn gives today, As robed in red and gold, she rules, the Empress of Decay! -- Henry Abbey
Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place, Will not stay still. -- T. S. Eliot
Decay is quiet but ghastly, explosion is dramatic and dreadful. There's not much to choose between the two of them in reality, and most of our lives have sufficient of both. -- Anne Roiphe
Crisis is the path to happiness. Decay and disintegration do not spell doom, but ascent and beginning. The powerful forces of a new creation operate in the hush beyond the noise of the day. -- Joseph Goebbels
And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all. -- Edgar Allan Poe
History gets thicker as it approaches recent times: more people, more events, and more books written about them. More evidence is preserved, often, one is tempted to say, too much. Decay and destruction have hardly begun their beneficent work. -- A. J. P. Taylor
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom."[Moral Decay (first published 1937)] -- Albert Einstein
Being a creator of a song I get to take all these broken fragments of failure and chaos and weave together something beautiful and meaningful. Decay. Death. Pain. Fall. And if God is a songwriter then these fallen leaves of mine can be redeemed -- Jon Foreman
E'en Beauty mourns in her decaying bower, That Time upon her angel brow should set His crooked autograph, and mar the jet Of glossy locks. Lo! how her chaplet green, The hoar frost and the canker worm destroy. Decay's dull film obscures those matchless eyes. -- Isaac McLellan
Progress, this great heresy of decay. -- Charles Baudelaire
Expansion means complexity and complexity decay. -- C. Northcote Parkinson
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. -- Harold Wilson
Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. -- Ambrose Bierce
Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay. -- Sallust
Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay. -- Sallust
Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay. -- Robert Browning
Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object. -- Joseph Addison
If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down. -- Jack Valenti
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A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear. -- Walter Smith
Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone. -- John Updike
When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay. -- Octave Mirbeau
Life is one long decay, no? There's a lot of beauty in it. Like the patina in an old city. -- Urs Fischer
The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay. -- Wendell Berry
Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end. -- George Orwell
False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports. -- Richard Burton
For an adult, the world is constantly trying to clamp down on itself. Routine, responsibility, decay of institutions, corruption: this is all the world closing in. -- Bruce Springsteen
We've come a long way in our thinking, but also in our moral decay. I can't imagine Dr. King watching the 'Real Housewives' or 'Jersey Shore.' -- Samuel L. Jackson
As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay. -- Sallust
'Content' is a word that has never sat well with me. Like 'maturity'. They are two words I've never liked. I think they imply some sort of decay. A settling. -- Elvis Costello
I always believed 'The Fly' to be a classic opera story. It's a tale of love and death, true love surviving in the face of physical decay and ultimate sacrifice. -- Howard Shore
I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay. -- Bob Dylan
And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay. -- George Washington Cable
Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance. -- Horace
A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world. -- Maurice Chevalier
Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in. -- C. S. Lewis
It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime. -- Lee Atwater
Fascism is capitalism in decay -- Vladimir Lenin
Where wealth accumulates, men decay. -- Oliver Goldsmith
The essence of decay is inactivity. -- Jack LaLanne
When learning stops, decay sets in. -- Norman Vincent Peale
All composite things decay. Strive diligently. -- Gautama Buddha
Thy decay's still impregnate with divinity. -- Lord Byron
If you Fear, your Heart will decay -- L V HALL
See how time makes all grief decay. -- Adelaide Anne Procter
Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Without adventure civilization is in full decay. -- Alfred North Whitehead
All things that have form eventually decay." -Orochimaru -- Masashi Kishimoto
The process of transformation consists mostly of decay. -- Rebecca Solnit
An urban novelist never minds a little decay. -- Jane Smiley
Change and decay in all around I see... -- Henry Francis Lyte
All things are subject to decay and change... -- Polybius
I sorrow that all fair things must decay. -- Fitz-Greene Halleck
The woods decay, the woods decay and fall... -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay. -- Philip James Bailey
[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely. -- Will Durant
Sound: always in a state of emergence or decay -- David Toop
Too much freedom can lead to the soul's decay. -- Prince
Soap, a cleaning product, can be made from decay. -- Leonardo Drew
The only jewel which will not decay is knowledge. -- John Alfred Langford
Aging is not just decay, you know, its growth. -- Mitch Albom
Without death and decay, how could life go on? -- John Burroughs
The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay. -- Samuel Johnson
All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay. -- Tacitus
Royalty is the gold filling in a mouthful of decay -- John Osborne
Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay. -- Gary Oldman
Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay. -- Sallust
Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay. -- Doris Day
Abandon the secret chamber and the spiritual life will decay. -- Isaac Watts
All compounded things are subject to decay. Strive with diligence! -- Gautama Buddha
To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay. -- George Orwell
nations decay from within more often than they surrender to outward assault. -- Ellen Glasgow
States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay. -- Walter Savage Landor
Growth provides novel experiences for youth; decay the same, alas, for age. -- Mason Cooley
Statesmen and beauties are very rarely sensible of the gradations of their decay. -- Lord Chesterfield
An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away. -- Samuel Johnson
Sometimes death is proof of life. Sometimes decay points out a certain verve. -- Karen Thompson Walker
I don't do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision. -- Allen Ginsberg
Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay. -- George Meredith
All other things to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay... -- John Donne
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey. -- John Dryden
What is love, if it can calculate and provide against its own decay? -- Madame de Stael
And so all growth that is not towards God Is growing towards decay. -- George MacDonald
It is the fate of all things to ripen, and then to decay. -- James F. Cooper
We've allowed our military to decay, and we project weakness on the international stage. -- Rick Scott
Any society which does not insist upon respect for all life must necessarily decay. -- Albert Einstein
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
You guard against decay, in general, and stagnation, by moving, by continuing to move. -- Mary Daly
The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles. -- Charles de Secondat
Things begin, things decay, and you've got to find a way to be okay. -- Jon Brion
Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body. -- Cato the Younger
Suffering of sentient beings is like decay; it fertilizes the growth of their souls. -- Anne Rice
Nations and empires flourish and decay, By turns command, and in their turns obey. -- Ovid
Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. -- Oliver Goldsmith
On every thing are traced decay and change. Look! how the shifting seasons slip away. -- Isaac McLellan
Whenever a people or an institution forget its hard beginnings, it is beginning to decay. -- Carl Sandburg
Absorption in ease is one of the most reliable signs of present or impending decay. -- Richard M. Weaver
Nature is full of teeth that come in one by one, then decay, fall out. -- Anne Sexton
...of all the kinds of decay in this world, decadent purity is the most malignant. -- Yukio Mishima
We must act swiftly in order to halt the rate of decay our planet faces. -- Henry W. Kendall
Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay. -- Umberto Eco
The constant abrasion and decay of our lives makes the soil of our future growth. -- Henry David Thoreau
Any growing interest in soccer can only be a sign of the nation's moral decay. -- Ann Coulter
Genuine philosophical problems are always rooted outside philosophy and they die if these roots decay. -- Karl Popper

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