"In this distribution of functions, the scholar is……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson

More Degenerate Quotes

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• 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… — 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… — Henry Rollins
• I wish I could show you what a small marihuana cigarette can do to one of our degenerate Spanish-speaking residents.… — 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… — Adolf Hitler
• The degree and duration of the torment of these degenerate and anti-Christian people, should be no other than would be… — Isaac Newton
• Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they… — Vaclav Havel
• Exceptionally hard decisions can deplete your energy to the point at which you finally cave in. If you mentally crumble… — John C. Maxwell
• All the public business in Congress now connects itself with intrigues, and there is great danger that the whole government… — John Quincy Adams
• A writer of story books! What kind of business in life-what mode of glorifying God, or being serviceable to mankind… — Nathaniel Hawthorne

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