Degenerates Quotes
All in all, the League of Nations is not inevitably bound, as some maintain from time to time, to degenerate into an impotent appendage of first one, then another of the competing great powers
Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity.
All the public business in Congress now connects itself with intrigues, and there is great danger that the whole government will degenerate into a struggle of cabals.
The human mind is like Van Halen. If you just pull out one piece and keep replacing it, it just degenerates.
Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas without eating a chicken fried steak.
Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos.
It is wonderful when God saves a drunkard which He sometimes does, but it is more wonderful still when God saves little children before they become drunkards, libertines, and degenerates.
It is when it is contended that "in a democracy right is what the majority makes it to be" that democracy degenerates into demagoguery.
Degenerates are not always criminals, prostitutes, anarchists and pronounced lunatics; they are often authors and artists
Without the truth of the people, politics degenerates into mere spectacle and democracy declines, leaving demagoguery and cynicism to fill the void.
Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.
I became a degenerate artist. My parents were shaped by their own experiences, and artists weren't so useful in the death camps.
Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness, and ends in madness and folly.
The worst crimes are not committed by evil degenerates, but by decent and intelligent people taking 'pragmatic' decisions.
Derivative trading with mark-to-market accounting degenerates into mark-to-model. Two firms make a big derivative trade and the accountants on both sides show a large profit from the same trade.
Prayer and action...can never be seen as contradictory or mutually exclusive. Prayer without action grows into powerless pietism, and action without prayer degenerates into questionable manipulation.
The word 'beauty' is as easy to use as the word 'degenerate.' Both come in handy when one does or does not agree with you
Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such a conviction.
Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.
I had got to the dawn of the beautiful not caring, but fully aware, stage, which degenerates so imperceptibly into the doing something unpermissible stage.
Oft have I heard that grief softens the mind And makes it fearful and degenerate.
In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.
Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess.
Materialism is decadent and degenerate only if the spirit of the nation has withered and if individual people are so unimaginative that they wallow in it.
When our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip.
The great challenge of the twentieth century ... is to create a new financial architecture in which private decisions produce a less degenerate capitalism.
Christianity is not a law of bondage; and if it respect the hand of God which sometimes raises up tyrants, it draws up where obedience degenerates into guilty cowardice.
I propose that 100,000 degenerate Britons should be forcibly sterilized and others put in labour camps to halt the decline of the British race.
James Bond in his Sean Connery days ... was the first well-known bachelor on the American scene who was not a drifter or a degenerate and did not eat out of cans.
Art must be in touch with nature - and wherever that touch is gone, Art degenerates - yet it must be above nature.
Humility is a quality for which I have only a limited admiration. In many phases of life it is a great mistake and degenerates into defensiveness or hypocrisy.
It seems to be almost inevitable that the man who accepts a subordinate economic position in the Family degenerates into a loafer and a tyrant.
It must be confessed that horses at present work too exclusively for men, rarely men for horses; and the brute degenerates in man's society.
In civilization, as in a southern latitude, man degenerates at length, and yields to the incursion of more northern tribes.
