Social Decay Quotes

#1. Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.

Gary Oldman

#2. A nation that encourages its people to spend more and save less promotes economic backwardness, social decay and its own financial doom.

Kurt Richebacher

#3. It's about a culture that increasingly encourages social decay instead of counteracting it.

J.D. Vance

#4. Welcome to the FAYZ. Wherever, whenever or whyever that is

Michael Grant

#5. Bob Scarpelli [of DDB] has told me I'd rot in hell for the commercials I've done, but I think he's kidding.

Jeff Goodby

#6. Book - what they make a movie out of for television.

Leonard Louis Levinson

#7. 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

#8. The something which had been a future was now a present and would become a past.

Betty Smith

#9. I just think that probably when somebody calls themselves 'born again' and kind of goes out there in a pretty radically zealous way, professes their glee about that, it can creep people out.

Stephen Baldwin

#10. Governments everywhere that are unable to guarantee equitable growth and social welfare have suffered a fatal decay of legitimacy.

Pankaj Mishra

#11. Much if not all we know about the complex mechanism responsible for the development (and stagnation) of productive forces, and for the rise and decay of social organizations, is the result of the analytical work undertaken by Marx and by those whom he inspired.

Paul A. Baran

#12. My parents had a factory, so I was linked to the textile and fashion industry.

Francisco Costa

#13. It's art that pushes against psychological and social expectations, that tries to transform decay into something generative, that is replicative in a baroque way, that isn't about progress, and wants to - as Walt Whitman put it - 'contain multitudes.'

Jerry Saltz

#14. I feel like it's a real shame that my generation doesn't make an appearance at the opera.

James Gray

#15. The willingness to use force usually means you won't have to. It is a paradox because our modern culture conditions us to believe violence attracts violence, and violence never solves anything.

Marc MacYoung

#16. We have replaced the religious passions with Christian social virtues, and to talk of Man's triumph in terms of mercy, charity, or compassion is as senseless as expecting to find a Christ standing his turn of beers in a Paddington public house.

Bill Hopkins