"Every good idea sooner or later degenerates into…" — Calvin Trillin

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• Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
• Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear… — Lord Acton
• If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days… — Lord Chesterfield
• Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates… — B R Ambedkar
• The primary reason to outlaw marijuana is its effect on the degenerate races. — Harry J. Anslinger
• Through the years, I have combined meditation, action, and the Iron into a single strength. I believe that when the… — Henry Rollins
• I wish I could show you what a small marihuana cigarette can do to one of our degenerate Spanish-speaking residents.… — Harry J. Anslinger
• All knowledge degenerates into probability. — David Hume
• The prejudice of unfounded belief often degenerates into the prejudice of custom, and becomes at last rank hypocrisy. When men,… — Thomas Paine
• It's the great soul that surrenders itself to fate, but a puny degenerate thing that struggles. — Seneca the Younger
• It doesn't dawn on this depraved bourgeois world that this is positively a sin against all reason; that it is… — Adolf Hitler
• The degree and duration of the torment of these degenerate and anti-Christian people, should be no other than would be… — Isaac Newton

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