Descent

Famous quotes containing the word descent:

“My life has been one long descent into respectability.”
—Mandy Rice-Davies (b. 1944)

“In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.”
—C. Wright Mills (1916–1962)

“When power becomes gracious and descends into the visible—such descent I call beauty.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)