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«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.»
Author: Augusto Roa Bastos | About: Humanity, Nations | Keywords: collectively, compensated, compensates, compensating, decadence, deficiencies, exceptional, exists, nations, nation state, point man, Point of, point of reference, reference, references, reference point, remainder, with reference to
«I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.»
Author: Christopher Hampton | Keywords: decadence, sophistication
«The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.»
Author: David Sarnoff (Inventor) | Keywords: apathetic, decadence
«America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.»
Author: Oscar Wilde (Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | About: America and Americans, Civilization | Keywords: America, barbarism, between, civilization, Civilization I, country, decadence, from, in-between, only, Only in America, The America, went
«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.»
Author: Benito Mussolini | Keywords: birth rate, bound up, decadence, empires, gnawing
«History shows that male homosexuality, which like prostitution flourishes with urbanization and soon becomes predictably ritualized, always tends toward decadence»
Author: Camille Paglia | About: Cities, History, Homosexuality, Prostitution | Keywords: decadence, flourishes, predictably, prostitution, tends, urbanization
«The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.»
Author: Cyril Connolly | Keywords: decadence, manure, weariness
«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.»
Author: Ernest Hemingway | Keywords: abuse, applied, concepts, critics, decadence, differ, term
«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.»
Author: Oscar Wilde (Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: artistic, curious, decadence, denote, denotes, laxity, subtle, temperament
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