Top 17 Declinist Quotes
#1. The millennial generation in the US is the first that has reduced expectations from those of their parents. And I think there is something decadent and declinist about that.
Peter Thiel
#2. For decades, I have been a militant anti-declinist in terms of America's place in the world.
Conrad Black
#3. The citadel with its wicked truths and his power-hungry uncle was gone, but Rafe couldn't erase what he knew. His entire life, everyone's existence, had been based on lies.
Eve Langlais
#4. Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
Jonathan Kozol
#5. To admit the presence of fear isn't weakness. Only a fool would pretend that he is never fearful.
Harold J. Sala
#6. Trust me, lots of guys bring women up to their rooms when their wives are aren't there and get massages, it happens all the time. It means 'nothing'.
Triple H
#7. Behind every person there lies a story which makes them what they are. Many a time, the story isn't known to anybody.
Toffee
#8. Your story matters, who you are matters, tonight matters, none of it is an accident. You were born for the blue skies.
Jon Foreman
#9. Families who live in public housing on the South Side of Chicago are not poor because Bill Gates lives in a big house.
Charles Wheelan
#11. As an actor, I'm rather hit and miss; I throw a lot out there, and some of it works and some of it doesn't.
Christopher Walken
#12. I feel like you are this or that because other people say so. I wouldn't know how to play a psychopath. I don't think about it that way. You think about playing the scene but if the other people say that guy is crazy, then you are.
Christopher Walken
#15. In civilised society law is the chimney through which all that smoke discharges itself that used to circulate through the whole house,
Walter Scott
#16. I'd be doing it to screw the literary world. Those bastards all huddle in their gloomy cave and kiss each other's asses, and lick each other's wounds, and trip each other up, all the while spewing this pompous crap about the mission of literature.
Haruki Murakami
#17. Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.
Karen Horney
