Decline Quotes

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

In the U.S. the powerful critics of austerity such as Paul Krugman and Robert Reich rightly identify the decline of 'labor' as a problem, and renewing trade unionism part of the solution. Our opportunity is to make the same case in the UK.

I cannot resign myself to the decline of Europe, and of France.

Television, although It's in steep decline, still occasionally gives voices to people who don't have voices.

I decline all noisy, wordy, confused, and personal controversies.

It's kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, have both been on the decline. In both cases it's for the lack of a suitable hero.

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.