Degenerate Quotes

109 quotes by 92 authors

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all… — Lord Chesterfield
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 body is strong, the mind… — Henry Rollins
I wish I could show you what a small marihuana cigarette can do to one of our degenerate Spanish-speaking residents. That's why our problem is… — Harry J. Anslinger
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 criminal lunacy to keep on… — Adolf Hitler
The degree and duration of the torment of these degenerate and anti-Christian people, should be no other than would be approved of by those angels… — Isaac Newton
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… — Vaclav Havel
Exceptionally hard decisions can deplete your energy to the point at which you finally cave in. If you mentally crumble and degenerate into negative thinking,… — John C. Maxwell
All the public business in Congress now connects itself with intrigues, and there is great danger that the whole government will degenerate into a struggle… — John Quincy Adams
A writer of story books! What kind of business in life-what mode of glorifying God, or being serviceable to mankind in his day and generation-may… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
TO worship God even for the sake of salvation or any other reward is equally degenerate. Love knows no reward. Give your love unto to… — Swami Vivekananda
Peace of heart that is won by refusing to bear the common yoke of human sympathy is a peace unworthy of a Christian. To seek… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising the sovereignty. Usurpation… — James Monroe
... the community suffers nothing very terrible if its cobblers are bad and become degenerate and pretentious; but if the Guardians of its laws and… — Plato
It is not a question of skimming the surface of the art, it must be probed to its depths, for to seize upon superficial things… — Jean-Georges Noverre
Our families may be corrupted by worldly trends and teachings unless we know how to use the [Book of Mormon] to expose and combat the… — Ezra Taft Benson
Organization for action will now and in the decade ahead center upon America's white middle class. That is where the power is. ... Our rebels… — Saul Alinsky
I think they must mix blood, otherwise the human race is bound to degenerate. Mixing blood is marvelous. It makes strong and intelligent men. It… — Josephine Baker

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