Quotes Tagged With :decline

Whereas it appeareth that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to protect....

...we can endure neither our vices nor the remedies needed to cure them.

Perhaps never before in history has the artist been so certain that the more daring, iconoclastic, absurd,....

In so many ways, for so many people, freedom was still an illusion. Barrie thought of the statistics....

Life is a balance. We tend to forget that as we go blithely from day to day. We eat and drink and sleep....

A civilization, when the moment has come for crowds to acquire a high hand over it, is at the mercy of....

If kissing is man's greatest invention, then fermentation and patriarchy compete with the domestication....

The prints shop manager, a balding man of about thirty years old, dressed in a plaid work shirt and faded....

Three, 300, or 3,000 - these are the number of unknown days, each far too little and yet too much at....

What I'm primarily saying,' he says, 'is that this is a time for knowledge assimilation, not backstabbing.....