Of course, the '60s was a study in decadence. Everything just got worse and worse, and at the end of the '60s, everything was so horrible that people were killing each other.
How does one make a movie about decadence these days? Now that we're allowed to do it, it's too late.
The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
I definitely consider 'Poses' - the whole album in fact - to be kind of a miracle. Like the last breath of that moment when decadence is healthy, 'Poses' encapsulates that feeling. It's a kind of song and a kind of album that I'll never be able to repeat.
The history of prevailing status quos shows decay and decadence infecting the opulent materialism of the Haves. The spiritual life of the Haves is a ritualistic justification of their possessions.
The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
For me, I wanted to create something that's much more driven by a type of selfishness, a type of decadence.
To be wrong, and to be carefully wrong, that is the definition of decadence.
When the storytelling goes bad in a society, the result is decadence.
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
History shows that male homosexuality, which like prostitution flourishes with urbanization and soon becomes predictably ritualized, always tends toward decadence.
Misgovernment is of four kinds, often in combination. They are: 1) tyranny or oppression, of which history provides so many well-known examples that they do not need citing; 2) excessive ambition, such as Athens' attempted conquest of Sicily in the Peloponnesian War, Philip II's of England via the Armada, Germany's twice-attempted rule of Europe by a self-conceived master race, Japan's bid for an empire of Asia; 3) incompetence or decadence, as in the case of the late Roman empire, the last Romanovs and the last imperial dynasty of China; and finally 4) folly or perversity.
Decadence is wonderful.
I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.
The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
Religion is the biggest influence on the intellect and the decadence of a people.
To have humanism we must first be convinced of our humanity. As we move further into decadence this becomes more difficult.
I absolutely believe that when one goes on vacation, it should be pure decadence.
I don't see decadence really as what you do, because I don't do much at all that is decadent in my life. But I still am decadent. It's a state of mind, I think.
As a youth, I sought out decadence; as an elder, I try to avoid decay.
