A Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

Good manners disappear in proportion as the influence of a Court and an exclusive aristocracy lessens; this decrease can be plainly observed from decade to decade by those who have an eye for public behavior, which grows visibly.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Friedrich Nietzsche
German - Philosopher
October 15, 1844 - August 25, 1900

If the past decade was the decade of searching and finding and looking for stuff, this coming decade is going to be the decade of filtering and going to your friends for recommendations.

Esther Dyson

Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court.

William Shakespeare

You hear headlines from time to time about the Amazon rainforest disappearing at a greater or lesser rate.... The real story is that over time the rate has stayed just the same. Year after year, decade after decade, we have failed to stop or really even decrease deforestation.

Patrick Symmes

The capitalist system is not delivering those decade-after-decade increases it promised. We're not where we should be in terms of our national economies. We don't know how to get out of this malaise and I think we now have to consider more radical policies.

Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell

Can you imagine having a love affair going on and on decade after decade? Macabre.

Gore Vidal

I'd like to have a decade of my life back. I dropped into a void for almost a decade.

Charles Durning

I keep showing decade after decade that I am a real performer.

Patti LaBelle

Each decade, I've lived in that decade, so I could easily shed the '20s, the '30s, the '40s.

Francesca Annis

You can't segregate and humiliate people decade after decade without creating long-lasting injuries.

Bryan Stevenson

I, George Bush, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the decade beginning January 1, 1990, as the Decade of the Brain.

George H. W. Bush

I live a very international life, but when I come back to Hollywood, a town I love in a lot of ways, I have to wonder, "What decade are you in? Like, seriously, what decade? It's not this one."

Rose McGowan

If decade after decade the truth cannot be told, each person's mind begins to roam irretrievably. One's fellow countrymen become harder to understand than Martians.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The whole period of the '60s changed a lot of us; there was never a decade like that in American history... to have the decade capture one of the great accomplishments of this century: man landing on the moon.

Walter Cronkite

A lot of things we take for granted sprang out of the 70s; it was a decade for thought and if a decade can be a mentor, then the 70s was mine.

Vic Reeves

Responding to climate change will become the obsession of the next decade in much the same way terrorism was this decade's obsession.

Paul Saffo

The '70s was a decade that was crammed with prominent women science fiction writers, and a lot of women made their debut in that decade or really came to prominence.

Ann Leckie

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