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He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair.
— Henry David Thoreau
The boys at school are so degenerate that it makes one feel pessimistic about the future of the male gender in general.
— Regina Doman
Devotion, when it does not lie under the check of reason, is apt to degenerate into enthusiasm.
— Joseph Addison
Our way is upward, from the species across to the super-species. But the degenerate mind which says 'All for me' is a horror to us.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.
— Woodrow Wilson
I want to kill this degenerate bastard brother of yours. But I am not selfish, I do not want to deprive you of that honor.
— William Balsamo
Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas without eating a chicken fried steak.
— Larry McMurtry
Filth!' Ignatious shouted, spewing wet popcorn over rows. 'How dare she pretend to be a virgin. Look at her degenerate face. Rape her!
— John Kennedy Toole
The primary reason to outlaw marijuana is its effect on the degenerate races.
— Harry J. Anslinger
It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of maturer age are already sunk into corruption.
— Montesquieu
Young men are sadly degenerate nowadays.
— Agatha Christie
Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.
— Peter Drucker
Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow.
— Elias Boudinot
The work of an artist who attempts lovingly to embrace reality, will ring false, will degenerate into kitsch.
— Karsten Harries
Emigrate or Degenerate.
— Philip K. Dick
The lust of gold succeeds the rage of conquest; The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless! The last corruption of degenerate man.
— Samuel Johnson
I propose that 100,000 degenerate Britons should be forcibly sterilized and others put in labour camps to halt the decline of the British race.
— Winston Churchill
God's mercy on you degenerate swine.
— Hunter S. Thompson
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
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
— Peter F. Drucker
We should not permit tolerance to degenerate into indifference.
— Margaret Chase Smith
The profession to which we belong, once venerated ... -has become corrupt and degenerate to the forfeiture of its social position ...
— Nathaniel Chapman
It's the great soul that surrenders itself to fate, but a puny degenerate thing that struggles.
— Seneca The Younger
Aristocracy has a tendency to degenerate the human species.
— Thomas Paine
OK, some people might think he's a degenerate, troublesome, drug dealing, coke dependant, alcoholic, but that doesn't make him a bad person.
— Peter L Masters
Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy.
— Mahatma Gandhi
One has to make a decision when a condition is likely to degenerate if nothing is done.
— Peter Drucker
If you're going to be degenerate, you might as well be a lady about it, don't you think?
— Armistead Maupin
Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess.
— Jeremy Collier
Oft have I heard that grief softens the mind, And makes it fearful and degenerate;
Think therefore on revenge and cease to weep. — William Shakespeare
Where flowers degenerate man cannot live.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Change is almost always negative. Things degenerate.
— Woody Allen
Literature, art, science, and religion degenerate when polemical struggle supplants the independent creation of ideas.
— Semen Frank
I became a degenerate artist. My parents were shaped by their own experiences, and artists weren't so useful in the death camps.
— Art Spiegelman
Are you a degenerate, Fisher?""I'm working on it. — Claire Gibson
Really, he called me that? Ellen DeGenerate? I've been getting that since fourth grade. I guess I'm happy I could give him work.
— Ellen DeGeneres
Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.
— Virgil
In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.
— Simone Weil
I have a right to get pleasure out of life: and I will get it, cost what it may." "Then you will degenerate still more, sir.
— Charlotte Bronte
Not two strong men the enormous weight could raise,- Such men as live in these degenerate days.
— Homer
A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may * * * readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity.
— William E. Gladstone
In his day, liking someone like David Bowie would have been the domain of degenerate officers in black and white movies about nazis.
— Jonathan Goldstein
