For stories teach us, that liberty sought out of season, in a corrupt and degenerate age, brought Rome itself to a farther… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Apostasy occurs when a church leaves its historic moorings, abandons its historic confessional position, and degenerates into a state where either essential… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
If nobody talks about books, if they are not discussed or somehow contended with, literature ceases to be a conversation, ceases to… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
The profession to which we belong, once venerated...-has become corrupt and degenerate to the forfeiture of its social position... — Nathaniel Chapman Copy Share Image
In religious matters it is now fashionable to define tolerance as the absence of criticism of any standard religion. All too often,… — Paul Blanshard Copy Share Image
Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness, and ends in madness and folly. — Francis Atterbury Copy Share Image
The empiric easily degenerates into the quack. He does not know where his knowledge begins or leaves off, and so when he… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Old age is as forgetful as youth, and more incorrigible; it displays the same inattentiveness to conditions; its memory becomes self-repeating and… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The human mind is like Van Halen. If you just pull out one piece and keep replacing it, it just degenerates. — Fran Kranz Copy Share Image
The boys at school are so degenerate that it makes one feel pessimistic about the future of the male gender in general. — Regina Doman Copy Share Image
When a defiled man is born again, his habits are changed, his thoughts cleansed, his attitudes regenerated and elevated, his activities put… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
As in our lives so also in our studies, it is most becoming and most wise, so to temper gravity with cheerfulness,… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
When the veil of fiction was rent, man shuddered before "Nature, red in tooth and claw." Nature had always been that and… — Revilo P. Oliver Copy Share Image
Without an allegiance to beauty, art degenerates into a caricature of itself. It is beauty that animates aesthetic experience, making it so… — Roger Kimball Copy Share Image
Society has no business to permit degenerates to reproduce their kind — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A culture cannot evolve without honest, powerful storytelling. When a society repeatedly experiences glossy, hollowed-out, pseudo-stories, it degenerates. We need true satires… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
Our families may be corrupted by worldly trends and teachings unless we know how to use the [Book of Mormon] to expose… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
The people are the ultimate guardians of their own liberties. In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why is it that sometimes our prayers seem not to be answered? This is a manifestation of the Buddha's wisdom, so that… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Alas, 'tis force alone that can compel to virtuous actions a degenerate people. — Vittorio Alfieri Copy Share Image
As soon as an opinion becomes common it is sufficient reason for men to abandon it and to uphold the opposite opinion… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Through the years, I have combined meditation, action, and the Iron into a single strength. I believe that when the body is… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
