decay quotes

Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.

The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.

I am against nature. I don’t dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.