#decline

Long ago the country bore the country-town and nourished it with her best blood. Now the giant city sucks the country dry, insatiably and incessantly demanding and devouring fresh streams of men, till it wearies and dies in the midst of an almost uninhabited waste of country. ↗

— Oswald Spengler

#men

The press today is an army with carefully organized weapons, the journalists its officers, the readers its soldiers. The reader neither knows nor is supposed to know the purposes for which he is used and the role he is to play. ↗

— Oswald Spengler

#journalist

Since the decline of record companies and music sales, I've always played live. ↗

— Adam Ant

#companies #decline #i #live #music

By use you possess gain; by disuse you decline and lose. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#disuse #gain #lose #possess #use

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

— Josiah Warren

#controversies #decline #i #noisy #personal

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#indicates #literature #nation

Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a little sad. You've got to be careful. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

#also #apart #be careful #becomes #being

I actually picked up copies of Decline I and II at a flea market once. I walked out without paying. ↗

— Penelope Spheeris

#copies #decline #flea #i #ii

If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political. ↗

— Stephen Bayley

#atmosphere #born #britain #continuous #decline

Be assured that I did not become the Mayor of Chicago to preside over its decline. ↗

— Jane Byrne

#become #chicago #decline #did #i