Best Degenerates Quotes
141 Degenerates quotes by 119 unique authors
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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
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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
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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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If some period be not fixed, either by the Constitution or by practice, to the services of the First Magistrate, his office, though nominally elective,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The cell is immortal. It is merely the fluid in which it floats that degenerates. Renew this fluid at regular intervals, give the cells what…
— Alexis Carrel
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Our equal and opposite needs for solitude and community constitute a great paradox. When it is torn apart, both of these life-giving states of being…
— Parker J. Palmer
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The empiric easily degenerates into the quack. He does not know where his knowledge begins or leaves off, and so when he gets beyond routine…
— John Dewey
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The incentive to peacemaking is love, but it degenerates into appeasement whenever justice is ignored. To forgive and to ask for forgiveness are both costly…
— John Stott
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The word 'beauty' is as easy to use as the word 'degenerate.' Both come in handy when one does or does not agree with you
— Charles Ives
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The gross debaucheries and atrocious cruelties are covered with a resplendent mental veil because of the systematic exposition of the philosophic principles in all fields…
— Iwan Bloch
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The Realization of the Nondual traditions is uncompromising: There is only Spirit, there is only God, there is only Emptiness in all its radiant wonder.…
— Ken Wilber
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Prayer is not one of the many things the community does. Rather, it is its very beingBut when prayer is no longer its primary concern,…
— Henri Nouwen
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A culture cannot evolve without honest, powerful storytelling. When a society repeatedly experiences glossy, hollowed-out, pseudo-stories, it degenerates. We need true satires and tragedies, dramas…
— Robert McKee
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I do not want chemistry to degenerate into a religion; I do not want the chemist to believe in the existence of atoms as the…
— Marcellin Berthelot
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The activities of these parasites and degenerates gave rise to Cubism, Fauvism, Futurism, Pointillism, Constructivism, Orphism, Surrealism, Dada, and also Impossibleism, Supersurrealism, Dynamic Double-Dog Realism,…
— Daniel Pinkwater
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I would rather be a transformed ape than a degenerate son of Adam.
— Paul Broca
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A film in which the speech and sound effects are perfectly synchronized and coincide with their visual image on the screen is absolutely contrary to…
— Unknown Author
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I admit to having worn suede and leather pants myself for a while, but you just never feel clean, and it's degenerate, anyway, to wear…
— Andy Warhol
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Look not back. No, not even if you see the dearest and nearest cry. Look not back, but forward. We cannot stop. If we stop…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Religion increasingly is tending to degenerate into a decent formula wherewith to embellish a comfortable life.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Love of goodness without love of learning degenerates into simple-mindedness. Love of knowledge without love of learning degenerates into utter lack of principle. Love of…
— Confucius
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When our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Type production has gone mad, with its senseless outpouring of new types... only in degenerate times can personality (opposed to the nameless masses) become the…
— Jan Tschichold
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Discipline in typography is a prime virtue. Individuality must be secured by means that are rational. Distinction needs to be won by simplicity and restraint.…
— Stanley Morison
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Human nature being what it is, peace must inevitably be a relative condition. The essence of life is struggle and competition, and to that extent…
— Javier Perez de Cuellar
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