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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
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
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
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
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