Quotes with decadent

A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect.

Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them.

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.

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