It's the great soul that surrenders itself to fate, but a puny degenerate thing that struggles. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Alas! poor human nature, pity, if hard pressed, degenerates into contempt. — John Godfrey Saxe Copy Share Image
All the public business in Congress now connects itself with intrigues, and there is great danger that the whole government will degenerate… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes… — Mario Puzo Copy Share Image
The cell is immortal. It is merely the fluid in which it floats that degenerates. Renew this fluid at regular intervals, give… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
The work of an artist who attempts lovingly to embrace reality, will ring false, will degenerate into kitsch. — Karsten Harries Copy Share Image
A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may * * * readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity. — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
I like computers. I like the Internet. It's a tool that can be used. But don't be misled into thinking that these… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
And surely, he that hath taken the true Altitude of Things, and rightly calculated the degenerate state of this Age, is not… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
When Julian ascended the throne, he declared his impatience to embrace and reward the Syrian sophist, who had preserved, in a degenerate… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Order is not sufficient. What is required, is something much more complex. It is order entering upon novelty; so that the massiveness… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Nietzsche inveighs against every sort of historical optimism; but he energetically repudiates the ordinary pessimism, which is the result of degenerate or… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
Religion increasingly is tending to degenerate into a decent formula wherewith to embellish a comfortable life. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
If there are degrees of evil, it is hard to say who is more contemptible: the brute who assumes the right to… — John Galt Copy Share Image
Our equal and opposite needs for solitude and community constitute a great paradox. When it is torn apart, both of these life-giving… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
How rare it is to come across a piece of writing that is unambiguous, unqualified, and also unblurred by understatements or subtleties,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
It is not a question of skimming the surface of the art, it must be probed to its depths, for to seize… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
To preserve wild animals implies generally the creation of a forest for them to dwell in or resort to. So it is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Those of us who have the privilege to serve this country have an obligation to do our job as best we can.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas without eating a chicken fried steak. — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
The aim of poetry, it appears, is to fill the mind with lofty thoughts--not to give it joy, but to give it… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
