Top 170 Degenerate Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on September 19, 2024.
The profession to which we belong, once venerated...-has become corrupt and degenerate to the forfeiture of its social position.
I would rather be a transformed ape than a degenerate son of Adam.
Aristocracy has a tendency to degenerate the human species.
Religion increasingly is tending to degenerate into a decent formula wherewith to embellish a comfortable life.
He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair.
Emigrate or Degenerate.
People think that it's ok to degenerate and disrespect someone just because they're in the public eye.
Where flowers degenerate man cannot live.
My last piece of advice to the degenerate slot player who thinks he can beat the one-armed bandit consists of four little words: It can't be done.
All the public business in Congress now connects itself with intrigues, and there is great danger that the whole government will degenerate into a struggle of cabals.
I became a degenerate artist. My parents were shaped by their own experiences, and artists weren't so useful in the death camps.
We should not permit tolerance to degenerate into indifference.
Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas without eating a chicken fried steak.
... the effort, diligence, and care required in practicing must be quickly suspended when pressure coming from anxiety or a desire for fast results causes them to degenerate.
It's a great medium for trivia and hobbies, but not the place for reasoned, reflective judgment. Suprisingly often, discussions degenerate into acrimony, insults and flames.
The most persistent hate is that which doth degenerate from love.
It is not a question of skimming the surface of the art, it must be probed to its depths, for to seize upon superficial things only is to degenerate into mediocrity and obscurity.
The West needs to relearn what the rest of the world has never forgotten - that there is nothing sinful in leisure as long as it does not degenerate into mere sloth.
It's amazing to watch somebody who is kind of this sleazy, degenerate lothario, sex-crazed guy become sort of a romantic, settled-down man about to have a baby.
Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.
It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty.
Type production has gone mad, with its senseless outpouring of new types... only in degenerate times can personality (opposed to the nameless masses) become the aim of human development.
I always degenerate to chocolate and coffee.
The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.
Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.
Our most pressing obligation is to do all in our power to obtain a revival that will result in a reformed, revitalized, purified church. Each generation of Christians is the seed of the next, and degenerate seed is sure to produce a degenerate harvest.
The boys at school are so degenerate that it makes one feel pessimistic about the future of the male gender in general.
One has to make a decision when a condition is likely to degenerate if nothing is done.
The primary reason to outlaw marijuana is its effect on the degenerate races.
James Bond in his Sean Connery days ... was the first well-known bachelor on the American scene who was not a drifter or a degenerate and did not eat out of cans.
Oft have I heard that grief softens the mind
And makes it fearful and degenerate.
In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.
The great challenge of the twentieth century ... is to create a new financial architecture in which private decisions produce a less degenerate capitalism.
Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess.
It's the great soul that surrenders itself to fate, but a puny degenerate thing that struggles.
A little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into everything that is sordid, vicious and low.
Materialism is decadent and degenerate only if the spirit of the nation has withered and if individual people are so unimaginative that they wallow in it.
A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.
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.
A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may * * * readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity.
The work of an artist who attempts lovingly to embrace reality, will ring false, will degenerate into kitsch.
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.
Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
I am a degenerate, and I know that.
God's mercy on you degenerate swine.
Fear is the proof of a degenerate mind.
Alas, 'tis force alone that can compel to virtuous actions a degenerate people.
Majorian presents the welcome discovery of a great and heroic character, such as sometimes arise, in a degenerate age, to vindicate the honor of the human species.
At this moment, the story in his head was perfect. He also knew from experience that it would degenerate the second he started typing, because such was the nature of writing.
I deplore the pornography and all of the immoral degenerate things that are happening in the USA.
Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy.
One of the laws of paleontology is that an animal which must protect itself with thick armour is degenerate. It is usually a sign that the species is on the road to extinction.
It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Not two strong men the enormous weight could raise,- Such men as live in these degenerate days.
I admit to having worn suede and leather pants myself for a while, but you just never feel clean, and it's degenerate, anyway, to wear animal skins.... So I went back to bluejeans after my degenerate period.
Change is almost always negative. Things degenerate.
Pure faith in the benevolece of the Divine can also degenerate into destructive forms of religion like othodoxy, fundamentalism, sectarianism, fanaticism, black magic and witchcraft.
Devotion, when it does not lie under the check of reason, is apt to degenerate into enthusiasm.
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.
