The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.
America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.
In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.
He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.
Decadence is wonderful.
In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively in a state of decadence, there always remain those exceptional beings as point of reference.
Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.
An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
It is not primarily the sexboozedrugs that surround this event, as problematic as they might be it is rather the flaunting of affluence, assuming exaggerated expenses, a pursuit of vanity for vanity's sake - in a word, financial decadence.
I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.
The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy but the crest is not more or less complete Utopia, but only, at best, a tolerably humane, partially free and fairly just society that invariably carries within itself the seeds of its own decadence.
First of all, whoever didn't want to be a member of this association or the other association, was branded, you know, like a dangerous individualist, you know, infected by the Western decadence, you know. So everybody joined.
I am the Empire at the end of the decadence.
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