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Without the truth of the people, politics degenerates into mere spectacle and democracy declines, leaving demagoguery and cynicism to fill the void. — Jerry Brown

Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity. — John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

When our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip. — Henry David Thoreau

Alas, 'tis force alone that can compel to virtuous actions a degenerate people. — Vittorio Alfieri

Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

The worst crimes are not committed by evil degenerates, but by decent and intelligent people taking 'pragmatic' decisions. — Colin Wilson

The primary reason to outlaw marijuana is its effect on the degenerate races. — Harry J. Anslinger

The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate. — Neil Young

Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness, and ends in madness and folly. — Francis Atterbury

It is a triumph of the Omnimalevolent Creator's design. As technique is improved, joy declines. Inevitably, talent degenerates too. — John Zande

Fear is the proof of a degenerate mind. — Virgil

The most persistent hate is that which doth degenerate from love. — Walter Map

Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos. — Polybius

When society repeatedly experiences glossy, hollowed-out, pseudo-stories, it degenerates. — Robert McKee

All knowledge degenerates into probability. — David Hume

Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket. — Eric Hoffer

The dog which remembers only to bark and not to bite, and is led through the streets as a lady's pet, is only a degenerate wolf. — Lin Yutang

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

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories. — Thomas Jefferson

Religion only helps; until and unless it degenerates into either ritualism or fanaticism, or worse the both! — Chandrakant Kaluram Mhatre

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen. — Peter Drucker

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

The human mind is like Van Halen. If you just pull out one piece and keep replacing it, it just degenerates. — Fran Kranz

Art must be in touch with nature - and wherever that touch is gone, Art degenerates - yet it must be above nature. — Swami Vivekananda

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

Aristocracy has a tendency to degenerate the human species. — Thomas Paine

Posterity always degenerates till it becomes our ancestors. — Horace Walpole

Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy. — Mahatma Gandhi

The white man in the tropics degenerates every day. — Christina Stead

All good strategy eventually degenerates into work. — Peter Drucker

Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess. — Jeremy Collier

It must be confessed that horses at present work too exclusively for men, rarely men for horses; and the brute degenerates in man's society. — Henry David Thoreau

It seems to be almost inevitable that the man who accepts a subordinate economic position in the Family degenerates into a loafer and a tyrant. — Helen Bosanquet

Where flowers degenerate man cannot live. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Change is almost always negative. Things degenerate. — Woody Allen

This evil of taking our cue from others has become so deeply ingrained that even that most basic feeling, grief, degenerates into imitation. — Seneca.

In civilization, as in a southern latitude, man degenerates at length, and yields to the incursion of more northern tribes. — Henry David Thoreau

An autocratic system of coercion, in my opinion soon degenerates. For force always attract men of low morality. — Albert Einstein

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

Wisdom degenerates in governments as governments increase in age. — Thomas Paine

Every good idea sooner or later degenerates into hard work. — Calvin Trillin

Degenerates are not always criminals, prostitutes, anarchists and pronounced lunatics; they are often authors and artists — Max Nordau

It is when it is contended that "in a democracy right is what the majority makes it to be" that democracy degenerates into demagoguery. — Friedrich August Von Hayek

Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Religion increasingly is tending to degenerate into a decent formula wherewith to embellish a comfortable life. — Alfred North Whitehead

Society has no business to permit degenerates to reproduce their kind — Theodore Roosevelt