Degeneration Quotes

37 quotes by 36 authors

America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization. — Georges Clemenceau
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
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
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
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
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
When hope is taken away from a people, moral degeneration follows swiftly thereafter. — Pearl S. Buck
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
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
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
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
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
Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life. — Alfred North Whitehead
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
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
Man is a degeneration of what he was. — Swami Vivekananda
Welcome to the degeneration of my mind. — Hank Green
Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit! — Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Everyone fixes up their face if itâ€™s not ideal, you know? Thatâ€™s because of the race-mixing. For example, a Russian marries an Armenian. They have… — Valeria Lukyanova

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