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- Nov 07, 2020
Decadent Quotes
Lines on excess, indulgence, and decline.
These quotes use the word 'decadent' across very different worlds, from a media industry critique to a sultan's prized art collection. Compare tones with our Anger quotes.
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- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think much of the media is decadent in the sense that the people who are producing the coverage, they themselves live very comfortable lives.
- Collection
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sultan Beyazid considered his father's art collection decadent and ordered it sold at auction.
- Nice
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in an apartment that would have made a trailer look really decadent and nice. Pretty much the only dependable thing I had was books.
- Negative
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people, with a certain nostalgia, the worshippers and admirers of the colonial system, cherish and nurse its structures instead of smashing them. This is typical of a mentality in bondage to decadent values, negative values - counter-revolutionary values.
- Lifestyle
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once you've reached the point where you can pay rent, you can go to the vet and you can go to the grocery store, after that point it's all the same. I don't have the appetite for a decadent lifestyle.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was brought up with TV comedians. I'll remember them till I go to my grave, all those comedians, as decadent fluff.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the Islamic world is so suffused with rage and hatred of us - for our wars, occupations, drone attacks, support of Israel, decadent culture, and tolerance of insults to Islam and the Prophet - why should we call for free elections, when the people will use those elections to vote into power rulers hostile to the United States?
- Nov 07, 2020
There's something fabulously decadent about staying in a hotel across the street from where you live.
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
I haven't got purity, and I don't think I ever did. I have always been, even as a child, a very decadent little person.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love to bake! I have a huge sweet tooth, and I love to make things like zucchini muffins, you know, anything decadent like that. And I stand by the claim that chocolate can be good for you! I love having a good piece of dark chocolate, one that's 70 percent or more cacao.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
We use fashion for status and to beautify and there's nothing wrong with that, but when it becomes completely unbalanced, then you're living a decadent life. And when that happens on a global scale, you're living in a decadent world.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised in a solidly upper-middle class family who had really strong values and excess was not one of the things that my family put up with. And there's something wildy decadent about the young-star lifestyle, and I just don't really see the point.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020