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title: "48 Degeneration Quotes by 43 authors"
description: "Browse 48 Degeneration quotes by 43 authors. Discover the best Degeneration sayings and thoughts."
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> [“Don't hit rock bottom unless you reach the bottom of your coffin.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tamerlan-kuzgov/don-t-hit-rock-bottom-unless-you-reach-the-bottom-of-your-coffin/)

[Tamerlan Kuzgov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tamerlan-kuzgov/)

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> [I can't slow the degeneration in my back.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-henman/i-can-t-slow-the-degeneration-in-my-back/)

[Tim Henman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-henman/)

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> [Man is a degeneration of what he was.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/man-is-a-degeneration-of-what-he-was/)

[Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/)

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> [Welcome to the degeneration of my mind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hank-green/welcome-to-the-degeneration-of-my-mind/)

[Hank Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hank-green/)

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> [Detail is the heart of realism, and the fatty degeneration of art.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clive-bell/detail-is-the-heart-of-realism-and-the-fatty-degeneration-of-art/)

[Clive Bell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clive-bell/)

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> [Every individual or national degeneration is immediately revealed by a directly proportional degradation in language.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-de-maistre/every-individual-or-national-degeneration-is-immediately-revealed-by/)

[Joseph de Maistre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-de-maistre/)

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> [Humanity to me is not a mob. A mob is a degeneration of humanity. A mob is humanity going the wrong way.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-lloyd-wright/humanity-to-me-is-not-a-mob-a-mob-is-a-degeneration-of-humanity-a-mob/)

[Frank Lloyd Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-lloyd-wright/)

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> [“​More than GM Foods I am afraid of GMM People. Genetically and Mentally Mutated People. The Entire Ecosystem Mutates.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vineet-raj-kapoor/more-than-gm-foods-i-am-afraid-of-gmm-people-genetically-and-mentally/)

[Vineet Raj Kapoor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vineet-raj-kapoor/)

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> [When hope is taken away from a people, moral degeneration follows swiftly thereafter.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pearl-s-buck/when-hope-is-taken-away-from-a-people-moral-degeneration-follows/)

[Pearl S. Buck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pearl-s-buck/)

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> [Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-north-whitehead/symbolism-is-no-mere-idle-fancy-or-corrupt-degeneration-it-is/)

[Alfred North Whitehead](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-north-whitehead/)

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> [I've got what my ma had, macular degeneration, which you get when you get old.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judi-dench/i-ve-got-what-my-ma-had-macular-degeneration-which-you-get-when-you/)

[Judi Dench](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judi-dench/)

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> [Pharisaism is not a degeneration in a good man: a large portion of it is rather the condition of all being-good.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/pharisaism-is-not-a-degeneration-in-a-good-man-a-large-portion-of-it/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

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> [I experienced first-hand the degeneration of the poldermodel in full force.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geert-wilders/i-experienced-first-hand-the-degeneration-of-the-poldermodel-in-full/)

[Geert Wilders](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geert-wilders/)

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> [Wherever there is degeneration and apathy, there also is sexual perversion, cold depravity, miscarriage, premature old age, grumbling youth, there is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/wherever-there-is-degeneration-and-apathy-there-also-is-sexual/)

[Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/)

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> [We stand todaybefore the awful proposition: either the triumph of imperialism and the destruction of all culture, and, as in ancient Rome,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rosa-luxemburg/we-stand-todaybefore-the-awful-proposition-either-the-triumph-of/)

[Rosa Luxemburg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rosa-luxemburg/)

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> [“The too perfect security of the Upper-worlders had led them to a slow movement of degeneration, a general dwindling in size strength…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/the-too-perfect-security-of-the-upper-worlders-had-led-them-to-a-slow/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“The domestication (the culture) of man does not go deep--where it does go deep it at once becomes degeneration (type: the Christian).…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/the-domestication-the-culture-of-man-does-not-go-deep-where-it-does/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

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> [In the case of European towns, the passing of centuries provides an enhancement; in the case of American towns, the passing of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/claude-levi-strauss/in-the-case-of-european-towns-the-passing-of-centuries-provides-an/)

[Claude Levi-Strauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/claude-levi-strauss/)

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> [In the eye, there is a type of junk that accumulates in the back of the retina that eventually causes us to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aubrey-de-grey/in-the-eye-there-is-a-type-of-junk-that-accumulates-in-the-back-of/)

[Aubrey de Grey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aubrey-de-grey/)

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> [The beginning is always so fine!! But decay soon follows. A degeneration into the tired old situation. The rot sets in. This…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jhonen-vasquez/the-beginning-is-always-so-fine-but-decay-soon-follows-a-degeneration/)

[Jhonen Vasquez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jhonen-vasquez/)

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> [Our degeneration, when it is traced back to its origin in our view of the world really consists in the fact that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-schweitzer/our-degeneration-when-it-is-traced-back-to-its-origin-in-our-view-of/)

[Albert Schweitzer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/albert-schweitzer/)

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> [Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vaclav-havel/human-beings-are-compelled-to-live-within-a-lie-but-they-can-be/)

[Vaclav Havel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vaclav-havel/)

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> [The injurious agent in cigarettes comes principally from the burning paper wrapper. The substance thereby formed is called "acrolein." It has a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-a-edison/the-injurious-agent-in-cigarettes-comes-principally-from-the-burning/)

[Thomas A. Edison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-a-edison/)

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> [“The degeneration of the revolution in Russia does not pass from the revolution for communism to the revolution for a developed kind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amadeo-bordiga/the-degeneration-of-the-revolution-in-russia-does-not-pass-from-the/)

[Amadeo Bordiga](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amadeo-bordiga/)

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> [I am convinced that 1941 will be the crucial year of a great New Order in Europe. The world shall open up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adolf-hitler/i-am-convinced-that-1941-will-be-the-crucial-year-of-a-great-new/)

[Adolf Hitler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adolf-hitler/)

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> [“Perhaps everything in life is the degeneration of something else. Perhaps existence is always an approximation – an advent, or surroundings. Just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernando-pessoa/perhaps-everything-in-life-is-the-degeneration-of-something-else/)

[Fernando Pessoa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fernando-pessoa/)

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> [Hysteria and degeneration have always existed; but they formerly showed themselves sporadically, and had no importance in the life of the whole…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-nordau/hysteria-and-degeneration-have-always-existed-but-they-formerly/)

[Max Nordau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-nordau/)

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> [Every attempt to employ mathematical methods in the study of chemical questions must be considered profoundly irrational and contrary to the spirit…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/auguste-comte/every-attempt-to-employ-mathematical-methods-in-the-study-of-chemical/)

[Auguste Comte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/auguste-comte/)

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> [The mind in its foolishness thinks that it is working in this body. Why should I be bound by one system of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/the-mind-in-its-foolishness-thinks-that-it-is-working-in-this-body/)

[Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/)

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> [“Rose was patently a degenerate. Nature, in scheduling his characteristics, had pruned all superlatives. The rude armour of the flesh, under which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bernard-capes/rose-was-patently-a-degenerate-nature-in-scheduling-his/)

[Bernard Capes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bernard-capes/)

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> [“The religionists are the enemies of liberty, and the friends of liberty attack religion; the high-minded and the noble advocate bondage, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexis-de-tocqueville/the-religionists-are-the-enemies-of-liberty-and-the-friends-of/)

[Alexis de Tocqueville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/)

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> [“To the man who has begun to hate himself the gate to degeneration has already opened; and the same is true of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/to-the-man-who-has-begun-to-hate-himself-the-gate-to-degeneration-has/)

[Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/)

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> [Socialism crushes human rights, builds the state, impinges on the liberty of conscience, and breeds social, cultural, and economic degeneration.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/llewellyn-rockwell/socialism-crushes-human-rights-builds-the-state-impinges-on-the/)

[Llewellyn Rockwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/llewellyn-rockwell/)

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> [A real dog, beloved and therefore pampered by his mistress, is a lamentable spectacle. He suffers from fatty degeneration of his moral…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-repplier/a-real-dog-beloved-and-therefore-pampered-by-his-mistress-is-a/)

[Agnes Repplier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-repplier/)

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> [Remember how many beautiful women there were in the 1950s and 1960s, without any surgery? And now, thanks to degeneration, we have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/valeria-lukyanova/remember-how-many-beautiful-women-there-were-in-the-1950s-and-1960s/)

[Valeria Lukyanova](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/valeria-lukyanova/)

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> [The long words are not the hard words, it is the short words that are hard. There is much more metaphysical subtlety…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/the-long-words-are-not-the-hard-words-it-is-the-short-words-that-are/)

[Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/)

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> [It is not dirt but the fear of dirt which is the sign of man's degeneration, and it is dangerous to judge…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lin-yutang/it-is-not-dirt-but-the-fear-of-dirt-which-is-the-sign-of-man-s/)

[Lin Yutang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lin-yutang/)

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> [From the preponderance of talent, we may always infer the soundness and vigour of the commonwealth; but from the preponderance of riches,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-caleb-colton/from-the-preponderance-of-talent-we-may-always-infer-the-soundness/)

[Charles Caleb Colton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-caleb-colton/)

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> [There is a big difference to someone being born with vision loss, to a kid having vision loss, to a senior having…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marla-runyan/there-is-a-big-difference-to-someone-being-born-with-vision-loss-to-a/)

[Marla Runyan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marla-runyan/)

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> [In history the way of annihilation is invariably prepared by inward degeneration, by decrease of life. Only then can a shock from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacob-burckhardt/in-history-the-way-of-annihilation-is-invariably-prepared-by-inward/)

[Jacob Burckhardt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacob-burckhardt/)

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                        "text": "Our degeneration, when it is traced back to its origin in our view of the world really consists in the fact that true optimism has vanished unperceived from our midst.",
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                        "text": "Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of living in this way. Therefore not only does the system alienate humanity, but at the same time alienated humanity supports this system as its own involuntary master plan, as a degenerate image of its own degeneration, as a record of people's own failure as individuals.",
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                        "text": "The injurious agent in cigarettes comes principally from the burning paper wrapper. The substance thereby formed is called \"acrolein.\" It has a violent action on the nerve centers, producing degeneration of the cells of the brain, which is quite rapid among boys. Unlike most narcotics, this degeneration is permanent and uncontrollable. I employ no person who smokes cigarettes.",
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                        "text": "I am convinced that 1941 will be the crucial year of a great New Order in Europe. The world shall open up for everyone. Privileges for individuals, the tyranny of certain nations and their financial rulers shall fall. And last of all this year will help to provide the foundations of a real understanding among peoples, and with it the certainty of conciliation among nations. . . . Those nations who are still opposed to us will some day recognize the greater enemy within. Then they will join us in a combined front, a front against Jewish exploitation and racial degeneration.",
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                        "text": "“Perhaps everything in life is the degeneration of something else. Perhaps existence is always an approximation – an advent, or surroundings. Just as Christianity was but the prophetic degeneration of a debased Neo-Platonism, the Romanization of Hellenism through Judaism,* so our age – senile and carcinogenic* – is the multiple deviation of all great goals, concordant or conflicting, whose defeat gave rise to all the negations we use to affirm ourselves.*”",
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                        "text": "Hysteria and degeneration have always existed; but they formerly showed themselves sporadically, and had no importance in the life of the whole community. It was only the vast fatigue which was experienced by the generation on which the multitudes of discoveries and innovations burst abruptly, imposing on it organic exigencies greatly surpassing its strength, which created favourable conditions under which these maladies could gain ground enormously, and become a danger to civilization.",
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                        "text": "The mind in its foolishness thinks that it is working in this body. Why should I be bound by one system of nerves, and put the Ego only in one body, if the mind is omnipresent? There is no reason why I should.[Source] The root of that degeneration is egotism - to think that one is just as great as any other, indeed!",
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                        "text": "“Rose was patently a degenerate. Nature, in scheduling his characteristics, had pruned all superlatives. The rude armour of the flesh, under which the spiritual, like a hide-bound chrysalis, should develop secret and self-contained, was perished in his case, as it were, to a semi-opaque suit, through which his soul gazed dimly and fearfully on its monstrous arbitrary surroundings. Not the mantle of the poet, philosopher, or artist fallen upon such, can still its shiverings, or give the comfort that Nature denies. Yet he was a little bit of each - poet, philosopher, and artist; a nerveless and self-deprecatory stalker of ideals, in the pursuit of which he would wear patent leather shoes and all the apologetic graces. The grandson of a 'three-bottle' J.P., who had upheld the dignity of the State constitution while abusing his own in the best spirit of squirearchy; the son of a petulant dyspeptic, who alternated seizures of long moroseness with fits of abject moral helplessnes, Amos found his inheritance in the reversion of a dissipated constitution, and an imagination as sensitive as an exposed nerve. Before he was thirty he was a neurasthenic so practised, as to have learned a sense of luxury in the very consciousness of his own suffering. It was a negative evolution from the instinct of self-protection - self-protection, as designed in this case, against the attacks of the unspeakable. (\"The Accursed Cordonnier\")”",
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