It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising… — James Monroe Copy Share Image
Nobody, I believe, will deny, that we are to form our judgment of the true nature of the human mind, not from… — Robert B. Leighton Copy Share Image
But because their ancestors were men of righteousness, shall we consent to the abuses of their degenerate descendants? Because they did us… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
But the forces of evil have not abdicated. The malevolent ghosts of hatred are resurgent with a fury and a boldness that… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
One of the laws of paleontology is that an animal which must protect itself with thick armour is degenerate. It is usually… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Civilization, in fact, grows more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wish I could show you what a small marihuana cigarette can do to one of our degenerate Spanish-speaking residents. That's why… — Harry J. Anslinger Copy Share Image
The Realization of the Nondual traditions is uncompromising: There is only Spirit, there is only God, there is only Emptiness in all… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
James Bond in his Sean Connery days ... was the first well-known bachelor on the American scene who was not a drifter… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Of the liberty of conscience in matters of religious faith, of speech and of the press; of the trial by jury of… — James Monroe Copy Share Image
Peace of heart that is won by refusing to bear the common yoke of human sympathy is a peace unworthy of a… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
A rational reaction against the irrational excesses and vagaries of scepticism may, I admit, readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity.… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
The word 'beauty' is as easy to use as the word 'degenerate.' Both come in handy when one does or does not… — Charles Ives Copy Share Image
TO worship God even for the sake of salvation or any other reward is equally degenerate. Love knows no reward. Give your… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
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… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The heroic books, even if printed in the character of our mother tongue, will always be in a language dead to degenerate… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Letter-writing too often degenerates into a communicating of facts, and not of truths; of other men's deeds and not our thoughts.What are… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In general, in America, every discourse in literature in 15 minutes degenerates into a conversation about ethics, morality and this and that.… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Organization for action will now and in the decade ahead center upon America's white middle class. That is where the power is.… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
What is this I hear of sorrow and weariness, Anger, discontent and drooping hopes? Degenerate sons and daughters, Life is too strong… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
