Deterioration Quotes - Page 3

• When you are young, you think that the old lament the deterioration of life because this makes it easier for them to die without regret. When you are old, you become impatient with the way in which the young applaud the most insignificant improvements … while remaining heedless of the world’s barbarism. I don’t say things have got worse; I merely say the young wouldn’t notice if they had. The old times were good because then we were young, and ignorant of how ignorant the young can be.

  Julian Barnes

  Regret, Thinking, Ignorant

  Julian Barnes (1984). “Flaubert's parrot”, Vintage

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

  Erin Brockovich

  Water, Clean, Crisis

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I have talked about the deterioration of the atmosphere between Washington and Moscow. It was quite clear that in the year 1980, which at the same time was an election year in America, these negotiations would not go very far, but immediately after the start of the Reagan administration we in Bonn started to try influencing them on the medium-range nuclear weapons negotiations, and we told them that in our view the best outcome would be zero-zero, zero on either side.

  Helmut Schmidt

  Zero, Views, Years

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• 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

  Mind, Noise, Firsts

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• Life is more than a theory, and love of truth butters no bread: old men who have had to struggle along their way, who know the endless bitterness, the grave moral deterioration which follow an empty exchequer, may well be pardoned for an over-wish to see their sons secured from it; hunger, at least, is a reality.

  James Anthony Froude

  Struggle, Son, Reality

  James Anthony Froude (1903). “The nemesis of faith: or, The history of Markham Sutherland”

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• Canada regards herself as responsible to all mankind for the peculiar ecological balance that now exists so precariously in the water, ice and land areas of the Arctic archipelago. We do not doubt for a moment that the rest of the world would find us at fault, and hold us liable, should we fail to ensure adequate protection of that environment from pollution or artificial deterioration.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Ice, Land, Water

  Pierre Trudeau during House of Commons Debate, October 24, 1969.

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• What is called Western Civilization is in an advanced state of decomposition, and another Dark Ages will soon be upon us, if, indeed, it has not already begun. With the Media, especially television, governing all our lives, as they indubitably do, it is easily imaginable that this might happen without our noticing...by accustoming us to the gradual deterioration of our values.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Dark, Media, Civilization

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• 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

  Sad, Believe, Men

  letter to Dr. Otto Fullisburger, cited in: Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, p. 75, 2004.

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• A few months ago people were talking about seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. Now the only hope is keeping the world economy from total deterioration. And you get a sense that it is all now truly left to Adam Smith's invisible hand--it's beyond any country's ability, and institution's ability to control.

  Jeffrey Garten

  Country, Hands, Talking

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• So you have the ownership of the Phoenix Suns, the Los Suns, and whoever - "We don't want to offend the portion of our fan base. We want to appear to be politically correct. We want to appear to be all-inclusive" and so forth. Well, fine and dandy, but what happens when that contributes to the overall deterioration of the culture of this society?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Phoenix, Want, Sun

  "Professional Sports Should Man Up". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. May 5, 2010.

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• Four things have almost invariably followed the imposition of controls to keep prices below the level they would reach under supply and demand in a free market: (1) increased use of the product or service whose price is controlled, (2) Reduced supply of the same product or service, (3) quality deterioration, (4) black markets.

  Thomas Sowell

  Black, Quality, Use

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• 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

  Vices, Machines, Artistic

  John Philip Sousa (2010). “Six marches”, p.31, A-R Editions, Inc.

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• ...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

  Growth, Balance, Important

  Nixon, Richard M. (1975). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1973”, p.96, Best Books on

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• If we are concerned about our great appetite for materials, it is plausible to decrease waste, to make better use of stocks available, and to develop substitutes. But what about the appetite itself? The major cause of the continued deterioration of the global environment is the unsustainable pattern of consumption and production, particularly in industrialised countries

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Country, Use, Patterns

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• The corruption of freedom is in proportion to the moral deterioration of the people. For a people who have lost their sense of self-respect have no need for freedom. And the income tax, by transferring the property of earners to the State, has disintegrated the moral fiber of Americans to such a degree that they do not even recognize the fact.

  Frank Chodorov

  Moral Fiber, Self, People

  Frank Chodorov (2007). “Income Tax: Root of All Evil”, p.75, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The tragedy is that in the name of resisting the internal deterioration of faith and the corruption of the world around them, many Christians - and Christian conservatives most significantly -unwittingly embrace some of the most corrosive aspects of the cultural disintegration they decry. By nurturing its resentments, sustaining them through a discourse of negation toward outsiders, and in cases, pursuing their will to power, they become functional Nietzscheans, participating in the very cultural breakdown they so ardently strive resist.

  James Davison Hunter

  Christian, Names, Tragedy

  "To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World". Book by James Davison Hunter, 2010.

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• I must pack my short lifer full of interesting events and creative activity. Philosophy and aesthetic contemplation are not enough. I intend to do everything possible to broaden my experiences and allow myself to reach the fullest development. Then, and before physical deterioration obtrudes, I shall go on some last wilderness trip to a place I have known and loved. I shall not return.

  Everett Ruess

  Philosophy, Short Life, Interesting

  Everett Ruess (1983). “Everett Ruess, a vagabond for beauty”

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• The rapid, sweeping deterioration of values is characterized by a preoccupation-even an obsession-with the procreative act. Abstinence before marriage and fidelity within it are openly scoffed at-marriage and parenthood ridiculed as burdensome, unnecessary. Modesty, a virtue of a refined individual or society, is all but gone.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Gone, Before Marriage, Modesty

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

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Our Society, Profanity, Vulgarity

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• If some individuals contribute to general social deterioration by overproducing children, and if the need is compelling, they can be required by law to exercise reproductive responsibility — just as they can be required to exercise responsibility in their resource-consumption patterns — providing they are not denied equal protection

  John Holdren

  Children, Responsibility, Exercise

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• It was a strange season coaching under that new [Alderson] regime. I felt like I was watching the deterioration of the Mets organization. They seemed to have no identity. My concern was that the character of the players they were looking for superseded the talent they brought to the table. Character on a team is important, but you've got to have the horses to win.

  Mookie Wilson

  Horse, Team, Character

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• 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

  Peace, War, Mean

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

  Vladimir Vasiliev

  Stress, Breathing, Steps

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Science, Perfect, Moments

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Enlightenment, Skins

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