Degeneration Quotes
37 quotes by 36 authors
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America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
— Georges Clemenceau
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It is not till it is discovered that high individual incomes will not purchase the mass of mankind immunity from cholera, typhus, and ignorance, still…
— R. H. Tawney
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In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into…
— Albert Einstein
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Ageing destroys youth, sickness destroys health, degeneration of life destroys all excellent qualities and death destroys life. Even if you are a great runner, you…
— Dalai Lama
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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 fact capable of…
— Vaclav Havel
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It is thought that the virus is a degeneration from a more complex life form. It may at one time have been capable of independent…
— William S. Burroughs
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When hope is taken away from a people, moral degeneration follows swiftly thereafter.
— Pearl S. Buck
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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 violent action on…
— Thomas A. Edison
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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, depopulation, desolation, degeneration,…
— Rosa Luxemburg
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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 of chemistry.... if…
— Auguste Comte
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It would be wrong to assume that one must stay with a research programme until it has exhausted all its heuristic power, that one must…
— Imre Lakatos
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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 community. It was…
— Max Nordau
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Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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In a world where so much seems to be hidden by the smoke of falsity and moral degeneration, we Americans must grasp firmly the ideals…
— Manton S. Eddy
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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 true optimism has…
— Albert Schweitzer
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Man is a degeneration of what he was.
— Swami Vivekananda
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Welcome to the degeneration of my mind.
— Hank Green
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Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit!
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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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 this.
— Valeria Lukyanova
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Everyone fixes up their face if it’s not ideal, you know? That’s because of the race-mixing. For example, a Russian marries an Armenian. They have…
— Valeria Lukyanova
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