Your authority and my degeneracy are one in the same.

When I see the worsening degeneracy in our politicians, our media, our educators, and our intelligentsia, I can't help wondering if the day may…

— Thomas Sowell

Mental degeneracy may be caused by lead poisoning. Or by a poor dip in the gene pool.

— Edward Abbey

“If God meant to interfere in the degeneracy of mankind would he not have done so by now?”

— Cormac McCarthy

Those who compare the age in which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in imagination, may talk of degeneracy…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

The hippies had in mind something that they wanted, and were calling it freedom, but in the final analysis freedom is a purely negative…

— Robert M. Pirsig

The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion.

— Jonathan Swift

Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

— Charles Horton Cooley

Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are succeeded by scoundrels.

— Albert Einstein

Those who wallow around in the sickness of their immorality and degeneracy get very little joy out of life here and certainly not much…

— Sterling W Sill

“Degeneracy is the only freedom fascism allows.”

— Marco Vassi

But in all despotic governments, though a particular prince may favour arts and letter, there is a natural degeneracy of mankind.

— Joseph Addison

“Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.'…

— Abraham Lincoln

Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid.

— Abraham Lincoln

The defenders of decent society and the disciples of degeneracy are often the same people.

— Caleb Carr

“The degeneracy of mankind is distinguished from its uprise by the dominance of chill abstractions, divorced from aesthetic content.”

— Alfred North Whitehead