Degenerates Quotes

141 quotes by 119 authors

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 discussion and publicity. — Lord Acton
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
Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to… — 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 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
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, from custom or fashion or… — 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 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
I do not want to presuppose anything as known. I see in my explanation in section 1 the definition of the concepts point, straight line… — David Hilbert
An autocratic system of coercion, in my opinion, soon degenerates. For force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an… — Albert Einstein
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
The human mind is like Van Halen. If you just pull out one piece and keep replacing it, it just degenerates. — Fran Kranz
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

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