When television killed comedy and love stories, the movie makers went in slugging. They offered the downbeat, the degenerate as competition. This… — Joan Crawford Copy Share Image
It seems to be almost inevitable that the man who accepts a subordinate economic position in the Family degenerates into a loafer… — Helen Bosanquet Copy Share Image
[D]emocracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes… — John Adams Copy Share Image
An autocratic system of coercion, in my opinion, soon degenerates. For force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Pure faith in the benevolece of the Divine can also degenerate into destructive forms of religion like othodoxy, fundamentalism, sectarianism, fanaticism, black… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Type production has gone mad, with its senseless outpouring of new types... only in degenerate times can personality (opposed to the nameless… — Jan Tschichold Copy Share Image
Look not back. No, not even if you see the dearest and nearest cry. Look not back, but forward. We cannot stop.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I had got to the dawn of the beautiful not caring, but fully aware, stage, which degenerates so imperceptibly into the doing… — Caitlin Thomas Copy Share Image
I see the angel Moroni, standing atop the temple, as a shining symbol of [our] faith. I love Moroni, because in a… — Elaine S. Dalton Copy Share Image
A prevention of the faculty and opportunity to procreate on the part of the physically degenerate and mentally sick, over the period… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
It would seem as if the very language of our parlors would lose all its nerve and degenerate into palaver wholly, our… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime or to let them starve… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Now, at times this issue has tended to degenerate into an 'either-or' type of debate. Either we protect our people from terror… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The great challenge of the twentieth century ... is to create a new financial architecture in which private decisions produce a less… — Will Hutton Copy Share Image
David Simon [the creator of The Wire] and I have a running controversy for years. It all stems from a telephone call… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
In civilization, as in a southern latitude, man degenerates at length, and yields to the incursion of more northern tribes. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It's a great medium for trivia and hobbies, but not the place for reasoned, reflective judgment. Suprisingly often, discussions degenerate into acrimony,… — Clifford Stoll Copy Share Image
Prayer and action...can never be seen as contradictory or mutually exclusive. Prayer without action grows into powerless pietism, and action without prayer… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
... the community suffers nothing very terrible if its cobblers are bad and become degenerate and pretentious; but if the Guardians of… — Plato Copy Share Image
Up to now, America has not been a good milieu for the rise of a mass movement. What starts out here as… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Tattooed men who are not behind bars are either latent criminals or degenerate aristocrats. If someone who is tattooed dies in freedom,… — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
I cannot favour laws such as that of Idaho, which allows sterilization of 'mental defectives, epileptics, habitual criminals, moral degenerates, and sex… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
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