Quotes with decadent

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  • E. M. Cioran A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Gore Vidal As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Brooks Atkinson Materialism is decadent and degenerate only if the spirit of the nation has withered and if individual people are so unimaginative that they wallow in it.
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • John Maynard Keynes The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Emile Durkheim Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them.
    Emile Durkheim
    French sociologist (1858 - 1917)
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