Quotes About Deterioration

#1. I believe that the horrifying deterioration in the ethical conduct of people today stems from the mechanization and dehumanization of our lives. A disastrous by-product of the development of the scientific and technical mentality. We are guilty. Man grows cold faster than the planet he inhabits.

Albert Einstein

#2. The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.

Baron De Montesquieu

#3. For twenty-seven years I was witness to the spiritual deterioration of my own father, watching day after day how everything human in him left him and how gradually he turned into a grim monument to his own self ...

Svetlana Alliluyeva

#4. If the reader says the state of affairs which I wish to bring about is right, or is just, or is inevitable and if this must lead into further deterioration, then I will have no quarrel with it. I might even, in some circumstances, feel obliged to support him.

T. S. Eliot

#5. I think you have to find the humanity in the character and then the deterioration is a part of the process - the journey of the character. It's like playing King Lear. You can start off as a nice old man who finishes up crazy.

David Wenham

#6. The men were all scumbags, but the whole point of the film is to show the development of that. Each guy is going in there to have a good time. By and large, these men are career men, family men, and you just see the deterioration of them.

Taylor Dane

#7. Real investment risk is measured not by the percent that a stock may decline in price in relation to the general market in a given period, but by the danger of a loss of quality and earnings power through economic changes or deterioration in management.

Benjamin Graham

#8. Astute observers of corporate balance sheets are often the first to see business deterioration

Benjamin Graham

#9. When you see deterioration in the skin or the hair, you are having problems with the subtle body. You're taking in too much bad energy, usually from people, or you're thinking too many negative thoughts. You are pulling an energy that is not suitable for the human form.

Frederick Lenz

#10. The SEC does way more good than harm - the last thing I would do is get rid of the SEC ... if accounting were thoroughly fixed, a lot of other sins would go away. We're paying a huge price for deterioration of accounting.

Charlie Munger

#11. Thus, his school performance would now be affected by a combination of inattention, anxiety, family disorganization, and motivational factors, resulting in further deterioration.

Katharina Manassis

#12. She'll find rapid deterioration, which is particularly noticeable in the skin.This is the sign that the subtle physcial is aging.

Frederick Lenz

#13. There is no deterioration and there is no creation. There are projections, moments of existence. Each moment is perfect.

Frederick Lenz

#14. Slumism is the pent-up anger of people living on the outside of affluence. Slumism is decay of structure and deterioration of the human spirit. Slumism is a virus which spreads through the body politic. As other "isms," it breeds disorder and demagoguery and hate.

Hubert H. Humphrey

#15. Do not bless all the changes; change must be progressive; if not, we must not call it as change; the correct name is deterioration or decaying! Beware of the changes! Any change which is not progressive is just a rotting!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#16. Every day that you live without proper breathing is another little step of submitting to stress and deterioration of your health.

Vladimir Vasiliev

#17. By accepting our aging and letting its lessons broaden us internally, we become calmer in the face of the body's inevitable deterioration. Becoming less attached to our outer appearance is so liberating.

Wendy Lustbader

#18. To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals.

Mark Twain

#19. We're always sick and we just don't know it. What we mean by health is only when our constant physical deterioration is undetectable.

Steve Toltz

#20. The theory of eugenics postulated a crisis of the gene pool leading to the deterioration of the human race. The

Michael Crichton

#21. If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace.

Oswald Spengler

#22. History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been either a spiritual awakening to overcome the moral lapse, or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster.

Douglas MacArthur

#23. There was no whimsical 'sip of wine at Thanksgiving' for us kids while we were still teenagers. This was the Clinton era, and my parents were already worried about the moral deterioration of the country.

Mindy Kaling

#24. Until self-effacing men return again to spiritual leadership, we may expect a progressive deterioration in the quality of popular Christianity year after year till we reach the point where the grieved Holy Spirit withdraws - like the Shekinah from the temple.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#25. The deterioration of symbols is natural. They wear out, needing to be reclaimed, recreated; returned to the spirit.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#26. Does this current deterioration and corruption of language, imprecision of thought, and so forth scare you - or is it just a decadent phase?

AUDEN

It terrifies me. I try by my personal example to fight it; as I say, it's a poet's role to maintain the sacredness of language.

W. H. Auden

#27. The whole process of life is a process of deterioration in which everything - and this is the most cruel law - continually gets worse.

Thomas Bernhard

#28. When patients are admitted to hospital for elective surgery or non-urgent conditions, their vital signs are only monitored every four hours, unless they have been identified as being at high risk of deterioration.

Chris Toumazou

#29. The deterioration of the intelligentsia is as much a symptom of disease as the corruption of the ruling class or the sleeping sickness of the proletariat.

Arthur Koestler

#30. We must strike a balance so that the protection of our irreplaceable heritage becomes as important as its use. The price of economic growth need not and will not be deterioration in the quality of our lives and our surroundings.

Richard M. Nixon

#31. Devils are depicted with bats' wings and good angels with birds' wings, not because anyone holds that moral deterioration would be likely to turn feathers into membrane, but because most men like birds better than bats.

C.S. Lewis

#32. The human race has today the means for annihilating itself
either in a fit of complete lunacy, i.e., in a big war ... or by the careless handling of atomic technology, through a slow process of poisoning and of deterioration in its genetic structure.

Max Born

#33. Bush is very clever. When the debate should have been about the deterioration of our cities and the lack of action by government, he sent in his idiot to make an outrageous statement about Murphy Brown.

Tim Robbins

#34. The intoxication of the faro drinker only shows itself at first by an increase in noise which is only deafening, and finally by a silent deterioration of the mind.

Gerard De Nerval

#35. It is clear that agriculture as we know it has experienced major changes within the life expectancy of most of us, and these changes have caused a major further deterioration of worldwide levels of nutrition.

Richard Lamm

#36. The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles.

Charles De Secondat

#37. Research has shown that healthy lifestyles are
more influential than genetic factors in helping older people avoid
the deterioration traditionally associated with aging.

Patricia A. Tabloski

#38. With Alzheimer's, recent memory is affected first. At the start, you count the memory loss in days, then hours - then in minutes. But there's also an insidious backward creep of deterioration.

Laurie Graham

#39. Love is pointless. It's the same sad sad story of with the same inevitable ending of miserable deterioration.

Arnold Arre

#40. Until we begin to discover the national values that for centuries have allowed us to rise above our natures and act as civilized men and women, our country will continue to suffer the steady deterioration in standards that disturbs us all.

Tom DeLay

#41. The rapid deterioration of education has been recognized as a national problem for the past several years. Consequently, American businesses must meet the immediate challenge of poorly-educated people in today's workforce by strengthening employee training programs.

Gregory Balestrero

#42. I forsee a marked deterioration in American musicand a host of other injuries to music in its artistic manifestations, by virtue - or rather by vice - of the multiplication of the various music-reproducing machines

John Philip Sousa

#43. I've decided that the political context is such that the only way reform will finally come about in the Russian military is that the deterioration goes beyond the point to which these old generals can stand up there and resist it.

William Odom

#44. To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.

Charles Horton Cooley

#45. Education has nothing whatever to do with moral deterioration; and if one must admit that it develops a resolute spirit among the people, that is far from being a defect.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#46. I don't have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.

William S. Burroughs

#47. For me, what I see happening in this [clean water] crisis is deterioration of the family. It is deterioration of our health.

Erin Brockovich

#48. Culture has never the translucidity of custom; it abhors all simplification. In its essence it is opposed to custom, for custom is always the deterioration of culture.

Frantz Fanon

#49. Intuitive errors are normally much more frequent among ego-depleted people, and the drinkers of Splenda showed the expected depletion effect. On the other hand, the glucose drinkers were not depleted. Restoring the level of available sugar in the brain had prevented the deterioration of performance.

Daniel Kahneman

#50. I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race.

Ezra Cornell

#51. Destructive criticism is the biggest single enemy of human potential. It is worse than cancer or heart disease. While those diseases can ultimately lead to the deterioration and death of an individual, destructive criticism kills the soul of the person but leaves the body walking around.

Brian Tracy

#52. Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.

Xavier Becerra

#53. Later, given political changes and the deterioration of the world, nobody in the government thought about either arts or letters.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#54. Don't you see? It's Galaxy-wide. It's a worship of the past. It's a deterioration - a stagnation!

Isaac Asimov

#55. My message is "Getting older is inevitable. Aging and deterioration are optional."

Christiane Northrup

#56. The nature and extent of profanity and vulgarity in our society is a measure of its deterioration.

Dallin H. Oaks

#57. I'm not a reality-TV kind of guy. But it's almost like we're living in a reality show. Every day in this country, everybody keeps worrying about the deterioration of America, and it's like a big reality show.

Clint Eastwood

#58. If the world suffers from mental deterioration or from moral degradation, then something goes wrong at the very root of civilization or culture. Even though that civilization may drag out for a considerable period, it grows less and less vital and ultimately tumbles down.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#59. For mankind as a whole, a possession infinitely more valuable than individual life is our genetic heritage, our link with past and future ... Yet genetic deterioration through man-made agents is the menace of our time ...

Rachel Carson

#60. In the 1960s, The National Education Association changed its character. The NEA changed into a union. And from that point on you can see deterioration in the quality of schooling in the United States.

Milton Friedman

#61. The S&P is up 343.8 percent for 10 years. That is a four-bagger. The general equity funds are up 283 percent. So it's getting worse, the deterioration by professionals is getting worse. The public would be better off in an index fund.

Peter Lynch

#62. A thunder blazed from the hells now, and it touched the Earth's ground.Grim clouds floated across the vault of Earth. A heavy rain pelted against the revolving sphere, which made destructions a lot.Nature danced with a haunting pain in the midst of human deterioration.

Nithin Purple

#63. It is hard to imagine the World Series being held in the sweet hazy sunshine of late September rather than the sour night air of late October, but that is precisely what has transpired in baseball over the past 50 years, a deterioration from light to darkness.

George Vecsey

#64. At the heart of the deterioration of the fabric of the Negro society is the deterioration of the Negro family.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

#65. in "biocapitalism" the improvement or prolongation of one person's life is often linked to the deterioration of the health and the systematic corporeal exploitation of someone else's

Thomas Lemke

#66. Language changes and moves in a different direction evolving all the time. Where a lot of people see deterioration, I see expressive development

David Crystal

#67. The United States in many ways resembles a Third World country - far more elevated, but it has many of those structural characteristics: the extreme inequality of wealth, the deterioration of infrastructure because it only serves poor people, predatory operations, huge corruption, and so on.

Noam Chomsky

#68. And what is the most terrible thing about boredom? Why do we rush to dispel it? Because it is a distraction-free state which soon enough reveals underlying unpalatable truths about existence - our insignificance, our meaningless existence, our inexorable progression to deterioration and death.

Irvin D. Yalom

#69. The separation of faith and love is always a consequence of a deterioration of religion.

Paul Tillich

#70. When you get a principle on which everyone is agreed, you get the beginning of complacency and deterioration.

Idries Shah

#71. When any individual or collection of individuals acts in disobedience to the moral order, short-term gratification may be experienced; but such behavior produces an inevitable deterioration of the personality and leads to a long term loss of what is truly worthy.

Ronald H. Nash

#72. Our voices need to be raised in unison against the deterioration of our culture.

Richard Platt

#73. All those vitamins aren't to keep death at bay, they're to keep deterioration at bay.

Jeanne Moreau

#74. The absolute deterioration of the wiki concept is just a matter of time. Once spam mechanisms are developed to eat into these systems, the caretakers will be too busy to stop the public-driven deterioration.

John C. Dvorak

#75. There were serious environmental problems left over from the Industrial Age, and the deterioration of the global climate seemed to coincide with political leaders who grew increasingly ruthless. The worst of these was Marko III, known to his American subjects as The Magnificent.

Jack McDevitt

#76. Living on through loss seems by contrast as bad or worse; it means experiencing environmental deterioration, steady decline in human well-being, and increasing constraint on future human action consciously and slowly while realizing that they are likely to continue for generations after one is gone.

Frederick Buell

#77. I suspect the psychological pressure associated with that crisis caused the first mental blackout I had ever suffered. It contributed to a deterioration in my health that later required the insertion of a heart pacemaker.

Kamisese Mara

#78. I can't believe that I changed so little. I expected to look old and hollow and gray, but I guess it's only me on the inside that has shriveled and deteriorated.

Beatrice Sparks

#79. Time erodes us all.

Meg Rosoff