Society Decline Quotes

#1. The Russian parliament has condemned the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.

Vladimir Putin

#2. The gradual decline of a society is often a self-induced process of trying to meet ever-expanding appetites, rather than a physical inability to produce past levels of food and fuel, or to maintain adequate defense.

Victor Davis Hanson

#3. The undoubted sign of a society well under control or in decline is that language has ceased to be a means of communication and has become instead a shield for those who master it.

John Ralston Saul

#4. I went on a long trip through South America with Prince Charles where I was the only journalist there - a couple of photographers but no other writers.

Anthony Holden

#5. The future is unpredictable.

John Green

#6. When they saw him making money, they said, "He is a man of business." When they saw him scattering his money about, they said, "He is an ambitious man." When he was seen to decline honors, they said, "He is an adventurer." When they saw him repulse society, they said, "He is a brute.

Victor Hugo

#7. The sole way to save oneself is to save others. Or to struggle to save others -even that is sufficient.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#8. Russians clearly perceive America's global influence as being in irreversible decline and American society shattered by major political, economic and ideological crises.

Ivan Krastev

#9. J. Edgar Hoover: When morals decline and good men do nothing, evil flourishes. A society unwilling to learn from past is doomed. We must never forget our history.

J. Edgar Hoover

#10. The job of a theoretical physicist is to make mistakes as fast as possible .

John Archibald Wheeler

#11. I believe that lack of empathy is behind many problems, and I believe that it's disrupting our society. In Great Britain, there is a steady decline in the willingness to be truly generous, and by that I don't mean monetary generosity, but friendship and sympathy for others.

J.K. Rowling

#12. All history is the decline of war, though the slow decline. All that society has yet gained is mitigation; the doctrine of the right of war still remains.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#13. They are asking that everyone dress up as the decline of the printed word in a society reverting to a state of brainless animality.

Joseph Fink

#14. Whoever thinks he is objective must already be half drunk.

Lu Xun

#15. Islam takes advantage of two structural flaws that exist in the Western society. One is political correctness and other is the decline of morality.

Ali Sina

#16. Winning is the science of being totally prepared.

George Allen, Sr.

#17. When someone calls you a 'nigger', then you feel sorry for him... You have to pity him because his mind has such a sorry way of expressing itself.

Adam Makos

#18. I believe you are a wizard, Mr. Holmes.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#19. A society that has no respect, no regard for its bards, its historians, its storytellers, is a society in steep decline, a society that has lost its very soul and may never find its way.

Laurence Overmire

#20. When we see the human race, we must see before all else environment and food. Historians write about social change without taking these factors into account. This is why it is difficult for them to see the reasons decline and prosperity in society.

Michio Kushi

#21. Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World War II, dominance had shifted decisively into the hands of the upstart across the sea, the United States, by far the most powerful and wealthy society in world history.

Noam Chomsky

#22. We conservatives bemoan the decline in values that has besieged our society. Why then should we not abhor the lack of morality involved in discharging untested chemicals into the air, ground, and water to alter and harm, to whatever degree, human life and wildlife? As a conservative, I do abhor it.

Wendell Berry

#23. I do think there is this danger that our society has made its peace with decline. I'd like to jolt them out of their complacency a little bit.

Peter Thiel

#24. I would suggest that faith is everyone's business. The advance or decline of faith is so intimately connected to the welfare of a society that it should be of particular interest to a politician.

William Wilberforce

#25. Court the society of a superior, and make much of the opportunity; for in the company of an equal thy good fortune must decline.

Saadi

#26. The worldly life runs easily due to the egoism which is the by-production of the worldly life. By increasing the egoism there, one has incurred endless worries.

Dada Bhagwan

#27. Everyone knows how to choose; few know how to let go. But it's only by letting go of each experience that you make room for the next. The skill of letting go can be learned, and once learned you will enjoy living much more spontaneously.

Deepak Chopra