Quotes about decline
A collection of quotes on the topic of declination, decline, people, time.
Quotes about decline

Excerpt from My Life by Oswald Mosley (1968), Ch.16.

“The East is rising and the West is declining.”
2020s

Variant translation: A loss of courage may be the most striking feature which an outside observer notices in the West in our days...
Harvard University address (1978)

“Decline of the English Murder”
Essay http://orwell.ru/library/articles/decline/english/e_doem title, Tribune (15 February 1946)

Source: Democracy for the Few (2010 [1974]), sixth edition, Chapter 6, p. 81

Response to request from a church organization of New York, on refusing to proclaim a national day of fasting and prayer, in relation to an outbreak of cholera. Correspondence 4:447 (1832); quoted in A Subaltern's Furlough : Descriptive of Scenes in Various Parts of the United States, Upper and Lower Canada, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia during the Summer and Autumn of 1832 (1833) by Edward Thomas Coke, Ch. 9, p. 145 http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/lhbtn:@field(DOCID+@lit(lhbtn0265adiv14))
1830s
Context: While I concur with the Synod in the efficacy of prayer, and in the hope that our country may be preserved from the attacks of pestilence "and that the judgments now abroad in the earth may be sanctified to the nations," I am constrained to decline the designation of any period or mode as proper for the public manifestation of this reliance. I could not do otherwise without transcending the limits prescribed by the Constitution for the President and without feeling that I might in some degree disturb the security which religion nowadays enjoys in this country in its complete separation from the political concerns of the General Government.

“Financiers flourish only when nations decline.”
Reported in, Bernard, J. F., Talleyrand: A Biography. (1973), p. 592

Source: The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

Source: In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development

“A civilization begins to decline the moment Life becomes its sole obsession.”

“I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.”

Source: A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety

2013, Remarks on Economic Mobility (December 2013)

Swarup, Ram, & Goel, S. R. (1985). Hindu-Sikh relationship. (Introduction by S.R. Goel)

Speech to the press (29 October 1923), quoted in Vakur Versan, 'The Kemalist Reform of Turkish Law and Its Impact', in Jacob M. Landau (ed.), Atatürk and the Modernization of Turkey (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1984), p. 247

Source: The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (1977), p.38
Quoted by Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, at Colorado Outward Bound's 25th anniversary in 1987; as cited in Leadership the Outward Bound Way (2007), ISBN 159485033X.

Lamb's Chapel v. Center Moriches Union Free School District, 508 U.S. 384, 398-99 (1993) (concurring) (citations omitted).
1990s

Sec. 377
The Gay Science (1882)

Official Announcement http://www.reaganlibrary.com/reagan/speeches/intent.asp of being a candidate for U.S. President (13 November 1979)
1970s

Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 43e

On First Principles, Bk. 1, ch. 3; par. 8
On First Principles

2013, Remarks on Economic Mobility (December 2013)

Quoted in Beatrice Hatch, "Lewis Carroll", Strand Magazine (April 1898), p. 422

Source: Das Ressentiment im Aufbau der Moralen (1912), L. Coser, trans. (1961), pp. 88-92

Part I, p. 26
A Jewish Writer in America (2011)

1860s, "If Slavery Is Not Wrong, Nothing Is Wrong" (1864)

Go Rin No Sho (1645), The Ground Book
Context: There is timing in the whole life of the warrior, in his thriving and declining, in his harmony and discord. Similarly, there is timing in the Way of the merchant, in the rise and fall of capital. All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this. In strategy there are various timing considerations. From the outset you must know the applicable timing and the inapplicable timing, and from among the large and small things and the fast and slow timings find the relevant timing, first seeing the distance timing and the background timing. This is the main thing in strategy. It is especially important to know the background timing, otherwise your strategy will become uncertain.

And if David asks why I decline, I explain that it is because I have no desire to meet the woman.
"Come this time, father," he urged lately, "for it is her birthday, and she is twenty-six," which is so great an age to David, that I think he fears she cannot last much longer.
Source: The Little White Bird (1902), Ch. 1

Source: Tristan (1902), Ch. 10
Context: It had been a moving, tranquil apotheosis, immersed in the transfiguring sunset glow of decline and decay and extinction. An old family, already grown too weary and too noble for life and action, had reached the end of its history, and its last utterances were sounds of music: a few violin notes, full of the sad insight which is ripeness for death.
Original: (la) Regnare nolo: ditescere non libet: prae turam recuso, scortationem odi: navigare ob insatiabilem avaritiam non cupio: de coronis consequendis non dimico: liber sum ab insana gloria cupiditate: mortem contemno: guovis morbi genere superior sum: maror animum non peredit.
Source: Address to the Greeks, Chapter XI, as translated by J. E. Ryland

On Nature, as quoted by Friedrich Ueberweg, History of Philosophy, from Thales to the Present Time (1885) Vol. 1, p. 35. https://books.google.com/books?id=BW5YAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA35

“… status, as in any traditional, class-conscious society, declines more slowly than wealth.”
Source: The Reluctant Fundamentalist

“I don't know if people have gotten ruder or if my tolerance level has declined.”

“Societies in decline have no use for visionaries.”

Source: A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

“Declining from the public ways, walk in unfrequented paths.”
Symbol 5
The Symbols

“Such days of autumnal decline hold a strange mystery which adds to the gravity of all our moods.”
Source: Smarra & Trilby

“Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.”

Source: Books, America: Imagine a World without Her (2014), Ch. 16
NDP releases "extremist of the Day" number 1 http://www.albertandp.ca/ndp_releases_extremist_of_the_day_number_1, quoted in the Edmonton Journal on May 11, 2011, Alberta's NDP (April 9, 2015)

2010s, The Deflation of the Academic Brand (2018)

Smuts expounding a confrontation of opposites in his presidential address to the British Association in September 1931, as cited by W. K. Hancock in SMUTS 2: The Fields of Force 1919-1950, p. 232-234
Source: The Political Economy of International Relations (1987), Chapter Three, Dynamics Of Political Economy, p. 109

"Curse of the mummy" http://nypost.com/2011/02/13/curse-of-the-mummy/, New York Post (February 13, 2011).
New York Post
He Who Lets Us Be: A Theology of Love (1975), p. 4

said in an interview quoted by Javier C. Hernandez of The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/14/nyregion/from-his-fathers-decline-de-blasio-learned-what-not-to-do.html.

Quoted in "The Eichmann Kommandos" - Page 157 - by Michael Angelo Musmanno - 1961.

Lecture, Literary and Scientific Institution, Hampstead, (25 July 1836), from notes taken by C.R. Leslie
1830s, his lectures History of Landscape Painting (1836)

Source: The Subversion of Christianity (1984), pp. 35-36

A dance of death in the West http://www.wnd.com/2015/11/a-dance-of-death-in-the-west/, excerpt from Government Zero.
Government Zero: No Borders, No Language, No Culture (2015)
Source: The Band That Played On (Thomas Nelson, 2011), p.162

Speech in Manchester (4 July 1895), quoted in 'Mr. Morley In Manchester', The Times (5 July 1895), p. 10.

Source: The Conflict of the Individual and the Mass in the Modern World (1932), pp. 29-30

Bubble, Meet Pin http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=230072 in The Market Ticker (28 April 2015)

Viktor Schauberger: Our Senseless Toil (1934)

Vol. 2, bk. 7, ch. 5
Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793)

CRN Online http://www.crn.com.au/News/161485,minchin-quits-shadow-communications-portfolio.aspx

The History of America, Vol. I (1777), Book IV, pp. 281–282
"Rider Haggard: Still Riding", p. 29
The Tale Bearers: English and American Writers (1980)
"A Republic, If You Can Keep It" https://web.archive.org/web/20140327090001/http://www.thatsmags.com/shanghai/articles/12321 (2013) (original emphasis)

Quote, Professor P.C. Mahalanobis and the Development of Population Statistics in lndia
Benjamin I. Page and Martin Gilens, Democracy in America?: What Has Gone Wrong and What We Can Do About It (University of Chicago Press: 2017), p. 19
Overview: Castles in Context
Medieval castles (2005)

"The Superiority of Dinosaurs", Discovery 3(2),(1968) 11–22
The Superiority of Dinosaurs (1968)

Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, P.xiii

1960s, What Has Happened to America? (1967)

Paul R. Krugman, Maurice Obstfeld, and Marc J. Melitz, International Economics: Theory & Policy, 9th edition (2012)

Source: Vegetarianism and Occultism (1913), p. 27

Closing words, p. 421-422
Swords and Plowshares (1972)
Source: In Defence Of Politics (Second Edition) – 1981, Chapter 5, A Defence Of Politics Against Technology, p. 94.

Source: 1970s, Changing Styles of Anthropological Work, 1973, p. 1

Introduction to Capital. Introduction to volume 1 (1976)
Hayek's Journey: The Mind of Friedrich Hayek (2003)

Cohens v. Virginia, 19 U.S. (6 Wheaton) 264, 387 (1821); with this sentence Marshall hold that the United States Supreme Court has appellate jurisdiction to hear appeals from a state court in a case between a state and its own citizens, even if the case involved interpretation of a federal statute.