Top 42 Degenerated Quotes
#1. The ancient dream of man to fly among the stars and go through the could and look down on the lands and seas has degenerated in its realization to the socialized and apathetic behavior of passengers who hardly look out the windows.
Paul Goodman
#2. Not anymore. I'm afraid I've degenerated into a bibliophile."
"A what?" asked Eragon.
"One who loves books," explained Jeod.
Christopher Paolini
#3. Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills.
David Mamet
#4. Text talk? How can the art of writing, once performed by monastic scribes, have degenerated into little more than creative candyfloss?
Fennel Hudson
#5. Unless a decision has degenerated into work, it is not a decision; it is at best a good intention.
Peter Drucker
#6. Get your butt over there and start reading before I beat you with my Rod of Time. (Sin)
I can think of much better things to do with your rod than beat me, baby. (Kat)
Aww, gawd, we've degenerated into really bad punage. I yield. Save me before my IQ points are damaged. (Sin)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#7. The sad and tragic fact is that the civil rights movement, despite its honorable and courageous past, has over the years degenerated into a demagogic hustle, promoting the mindless racism they once fought against.
Thomas Sowell
#8. Democracy in itself does not define or guarantee a free society. History has told many stories of democratic societies that have degenerated into corruption, plunder, and tyranny.
Richard Ebeling
#9. Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon.
Oscar Wilde
#10. Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#11. Instead of preaching the good news that sinners can be made righteous in Christ and escape the wrath to come, the gospel has degenerated into the pretext that we can be happy in Christ and escape the hassles of life.
Ray Comfort
#13. Men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels, rather than elevated apes.
William Winwood Reade
#14. In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.
Charles Jencks
#15. people to ourselves rather than Jesus, and then wonder why power has left the pulpit and why the deep theological treasures of some of the old hymns have degenerated into songs that exalt us above the glory of our Creator. Despite our pretensions, our pride grows
Matt Boswell
#16. a samurai is a total human being, whereas a man who is completely absorbed in his technical skill has degenerated into a 'function', one cog in a machine.
Yukio Mishima
#17. Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos.
George Eliot
#18. Paganism therefore implies the rejection of this discontinuity, this rupture, this fundamental tear, which is the "dualistic fiction," which, as Nietzsche wrote in The Antichrist, "degenerated God into the contradiction of life, instead of being its transfiguration and eternal Yes!
Alain De Benoist
#19. A King, by disallowing Acts of this salutary nature, from being the father of his people, degenerated into a Tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects' obedience.
Patrick Henry
#20. Religion now has degenerated and it has turned into a wolf; it has opened its mouth to show his ugly teeth; its spreading fear instead of love; and science has hidden in a corner like a lamb, trembling with fear!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#21. Stepan Arkadyevitch felt exactly the difference that Pyotr Oblonsky described. In Moscow he degenerated so much that if he had had to be there for long together, he might in good earnest have come to considering his salvation; in Petersburg he felt himself a man of the world again.
Leo Tolstoy
#22. He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.
Victor Hugo
#23. When fate wronged me, I had not the wisdom to remain cool: I turned desperate; then I degenerated.
Charlotte Bronte
#24. Over the years, our political system has degenerated to the extent that it is difficult for anyone to make any headway yet keep his hands clean.
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
#25. Caballero said the CIA's psychological torture methods often degenerated into physical torture, citing a young woman who was stripped, starved, deprived of sleep, beaten, burned, electrically shocked and sexually molested.
Anonymous
#26. Know what makes a sentence more than a random list, practice constructing sentences and explaining what you have done, and you will know how to make sentences forever and you will know too when what you are writing doesn't make the grade because it has degenerated into a mere pile of discrete items.
Stanley Fish
#27. The proper role of humanists is not to bring 'human values' to the attention of technicians otherwise engaged in a purely instrumental approach to their calling, but to demand the restoration of the practical or moral element in callings that have degenerated into techniques.
Christopher Lasch
#28. And who had the honor to be, as a child, the play-fellow of our king, Louis XIII, whom God preserve! Sometimes their play degenerated into battles, and in these
Alexandre Dumas
#29. Learning and education have frequently degenerated into the systematic accumulation of facts and information.
Stephen Batchelor
#30. The most widely raised type of silkworm, the larva of the 'Bombyx mori', no longer exists anywhere in a natural state. As my encyclopedia poignantly puts it: 'The legs of the larvae have degenerated, and the adults no longer fly'.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#31. In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.
Charles Eames
#32. We, the Jews, not only have degenerated and are located at the end of the path, we spoiled the blood of all the peoples of Europe ... Jews are descended from a mixture of waste of all races.
Theodor Herzl
#33. When we act pugnaciously, and injuriously, and angrily, and rudely, to what level have we degenerated? To the level of the wild beasts. Well, the fact is that some of us are wild beasts of a larger size, while others are little animals, malignant and petty.
Epictetus
#34. I think the political process has degenerated into name-calling and extremism, and I think that that's unfortunate.
Bill Bradley
#35. It is simply the truth that the political system that I am part of has degenerated to the point that it needs fundamental change.
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
#36. The Germans could not get over the perfidy of it. It was unbelievable that the English, having degenerated to the stage where suffragettes heckled the Prime Minister and defied the police, were going to fight.
Barbara Tuchman
#37. Present-day Hinduism and Buddhism were growths from the same branch. Buddhism degenerated, and Shankara lopped it off!
Swami Vivekananda
#38. The principle of real leadership ignored, the immortal objects of society forgotten, practical conservatism degenerated into mere laudation of private enterprise, economic policy almost wholly surrendered to special interests.
Russell Kirk
#39. The patchwork political landscape of the Arab world - the client monarchies, degenerated nationalist dictatorships, and the imperial petrol stations known as the Gulf states - was the outcome of an intensive experience of Anglo-French colonialism.
Tariq Ali
#40. The mind of the man who receives gifts is acted on by the mind of the giver, so the receiver is likely to become degenerated. Receiving gifts is prone to destroy the independence of the mind, and make us slavish. Therefore, receive no gifts.
Swami Vivekananda
#41. In proportion as architecture degenerated, printing throve and flourished. The capital of forces which human thought had expended in building, it henceforth expended in books.
Victor Hugo
#42. Bertrand Russell started off as a mathematician and then degenerated into a philosopher and finally into a humanist; he went downhill rapidly!
Gregory Chaitin
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