Decay Quotes

"Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust." "Complexity requires investing energy to go beyond entropy, the universal law of inertia and decay, and beyond the social programming that keeps us on a narrow track" "I’ve been having a hard time adjusting, I had the shiniest wheels, now they’re rusting." "What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?" "A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands" "If gold rusts, what then can iron do?" "Mirrors are for misery, nothing more. They record decay." "Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos" "Political chaos is connected with the decay of language." "Too much freedom can lead to the soul's decay" "Information wants to be reduced. Lucky for us, it perishes" "Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay"