Degeneracy Quotes

#1. If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy

Boethius

#2. My closest friend at this time was my tiny pet dog - it was one of the cute little breeds that people in other countries put frocks on. I wouldn't have been allowed to do that, because putting clothes on dogs was a well-known example of capitalist degeneracy.

Hyeonseo Lee

#3. The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion.

Jonathan Swift

#4. Happy, beautiful people have no need of God. It is only when people are debased by degeneracy of the mind or body that they consciously seek me out. And I desire to be sought out. Worshiped. For

Nicole Cushing

#5. The slight sense of degeneracy induced by reading novels before luncheon

Elizabeth Bowen

#6. Degeneracy can be fun but it's hard to keep up as a serious lifetime occupation.

Robert M. Pirsig

#7. The sure foundations of the state are laid in knowledge, not in ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture, at book learning, which is the recorded wisdom of the experience of mankind, is the demagogue's sneer at intelligent liberty, inviting national degeneracy and ruin.

George William Curtis

#8. Love is basic for the birth of a true society, while violence has in it the essence of anti-sociality. Love is positive, is eternal: violence is degeneracy, it is it's own destruction.

Toyohiko Kagawa

#9. The degeneracy of mankind is distinguished from its uprise by the dominance of chill abstractions, divorced from aesthetic content.

Alfred North Whitehead

#10. it maybe brilliancy to change partner time to time as per required of sex and money.as par demand of sex mind and flirting Game
But it is degeneracy Of Morality and dignity

Mohammed Zaki Ansari

#11. Man is not growing better! Man is not climbing upward. Instead of progress in man himself there is degeneracy - degeneracy of body, mind, and spirit. Man is going downhill.

Billy Graham

#12. The mobs of the great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body. It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigor. A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats to the heart of its laws and constitution.

Thomas Jefferson

#13. Those who wallow around in the sickness of their immorality and degeneracy get very little joy out of life here and certainly not much promise is held out for them hereafter.

Sterling W. Sill

#14. Mr. Poyser had no reason to be ashamed of his leg, and suspected that the growing abuse of top-boots and other fashions tending to disguise the nether limbs had their origin in a pitiable degeneracy of the human calf.

George Eliot

#15. Mental degeneracy may be caused by lead poisoning. Or by a poor dip in the gene pool.

Edward Abbey

#16. The defenders of decent society and the disciples of degeneracy are often the same people.

Caleb Carr

#17. Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are succeeded by scoundrels.

Albert Einstein

#18. In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover, and wickedness insensibly open, cultivate and improve.

Thomas Jefferson

#19. The pediatrician must have thought me one of those neurotic mothers who craved distinction for her child but who in our civilization's latter-day degeneracy could only conceive of the exceptional in terms of deficiency or affliction.

Lionel Shriver

#20. Your authority and my degeneracy are one in the same.

Saul Bellow

#21. Kindliness seems to exist primarily as an animal instinct, so deeply rooted that mental degeneracy, which works from the top down,does not destroy it until the mind sinks to the lower grades of idiocy.

Charles Horton Cooley

#22. Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law? Let us hope our moral principles are not yet in that stage of degeneracy.

Thomas Jefferson

#23. If God meant to interfere in the degeneracy of mankind would he not have done so by now? Wolves cull themselves, man. What other creatures could? And is the race of man not more predacious yet?

Cormac McCarthy

#24. But in all despotic governments, though a particular prince may favour arts and letter, there is a natural degeneracy of mankind.

Joseph Addison

#25. When I see the worsening degeneracy in our politicians, our media, our educators, and our intelligentsia, I can't help wondering if the day may yet come when the only thing that can save this country is a military coup.

Thomas Sowell

#26. The people are the ultimate guardians of their own liberties. In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy ... Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone.

Thomas Jefferson

#27. Imagination makes people oversensitive,vulnerable and exposed. Perhaps it's a form of degeneracy. I have never held the shortcomings of the unimaginative against them. Sometimes I've even envied them: they have an easier and more pleasant life than everyone else.

Marlen Haushofer

#28. Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Charles Horton Cooley

#29. Sadness is just happiness turned on its ass - it's all showbiz!

Guy Maddin

#30. Does he not remember he is half woman.

Nayyirah Waheed

#31. The problem of pretending to be alive.

Graham Greene

#32. There was something magic in their large perfect eyes, something that made you pay attention

Scott Westerfeld

#33. All right, let's not panic. I'll make the money by selling one of my livers. I can get by with one.

Homer

#34. I've gotten much better at multi-tasking. It's hard, though. But, writing a script is not totally focused. You're taking little breaks, all the time. If a kid runs in, you give 'em a horsey ride. It's a pretty fluid process.

Matt Damon

#35. Besides, adulthood is never something girls grow into. It is something they have thrust upon them, menstruation being only the first of many two-edged swords subsumed under the rubric "becoming a woman," all of them occasions to stay home from school and weep.

Nell Zink

#36. But why discourse Upon the Virtues of the Horse? They are too numerous to tell Save when you have a Horse to Sell.

Josh Billings