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Emigrate or Degenerate. -- Philip K. Dick
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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind. -- Virgil
Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. -- Aristotle
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. -- Peter Drucker
In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs. -- Simone Weil
It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption. -- Baron de Montesquieu
It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty. -- James Monroe
I like computers. I like the Internet. It's a tool that can be used. But don't be misled into thinking that these technologies are anything other than aspects of a degenerate economic system. -- Jerry Brown
All in all, the League of Nations is not inevitably bound, as some maintain from time to time, to degenerate into an impotent appendage of first one, then another of the competing great powers. -- Hjalmar Branting
Exceptionally hard decisions can deplete your energy to the point at which you finally cave in. If you mentally crumble and degenerate into negative thinking, you'll magnify the problem to the point where it can haunt you. -- John C. Maxwell
Anytime you get nine people together, whether it's at a party or it's in the conference room of the Supreme Court, you do have to maintain some order, or it does kind of degenerate into squabbling pretty quickly. -- John Roberts
The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular. -- E. T. Bell
Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust. -- Lord Chesterfield
While I shared many of the same emotions Bill describes, in no way did my experience ever degenerate into the grimness I find in his book - I didn't have to live with Don, and I think that made a big big difference. -- Gary Lucas
The doctors realized in retrospect that even though most of these dead had also suffered from burns and blast effects, they had absorbed enough radiation to kill them. The rays simply destroyed body cells - caused their nuclei to degenerate and broke their walls. -- John Hersey
He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse. -- Mario Puzo
It turns out synthesizing DNA is very difficult. There are tens of thousands of machines around the world that make small pieces of DNA - 30 to 50 letters in length - and it's a degenerate process, so the longer you make the piece, the more errors there are. -- Craig Venter
There was an exhibition in Munich in 1937, 'Degenerate Art,' which included work by Klee, Kandinsky, Beckmann and many others. The work was called 'sick' and put in the trash heap. The sentiments expressed toward contemporary art by Jesse Helms, Pat Robertson and Mayor Giuliani recall the language used by the Nazis. -- Hans Haacke
God's mercy on you degenerate swine. -- Hunter S. Thompson
Where flowers degenerate man cannot live. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Change is almost always negative. Things degenerate. -- Woody Allen
Fear is the proof of a degenerate mind. -- Virgil
We should not permit tolerance to degenerate into indifference. -- Margaret Chase Smith
Aristocracy has a tendency to degenerate the human species. -- Thomas Paine
Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen. -- Peter Drucker
The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate. -- Neil Young
The most persistent hate is that which doth degenerate from love. -- Walter Map
I would rather be a transformed ape than a degenerate son of Adam. -- Paul Broca
The primary reason to outlaw marijuana is its effect on the degenerate races. -- Harry J. Anslinger
Alas, 'tis force alone that can compel to virtuous actions a degenerate people. -- Vittorio Alfieri
Oft have I heard that grief softens the mind And makes it fearful and degenerate. -- William Shakespeare
He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair. -- Henry David Thoreau
Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas without eating a chicken fried steak. -- Larry McMurtry
It's the great soul that surrenders itself to fate, but a puny degenerate thing that struggles. -- Seneca the Younger
Religion increasingly is tending to degenerate into a decent formula wherewith to embellish a comfortable life. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Devotion, when it does not lie under the check of reason, is apt to degenerate into enthusiasm. -- Joseph Addison
I deplore the pornography and all of the immoral degenerate things that are happening in the USA. -- Bill Bright
Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess. -- Jeremy Collier
One has to make a decision when a condition is likely to degenerate if nothing is done. -- Peter Drucker
The work of an artist who attempts lovingly to embrace reality, will ring false, will degenerate into kitsch. -- Karsten Harries
Not two strong men the enormous weight could raise,- Such men as live in these degenerate days. -- Homer
Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may * * * readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity. -- William E. Gladstone
The profession to which we belong, once venerated...-has become corrupt and degenerate to the forfeiture of its social position... -- Nathaniel Chapman
A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man. -- Woodrow Wilson
The lust of gold succeeds the rage of conquest; The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless! The last corruption of degenerate man. -- Samuel Johnson
It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption. -- Baron de Montesquieu
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
The boys at school are so degenerate that it makes one feel pessimistic about the future of the male gender in general." -- Regina Doman
The boys at school are so degenerate that it makes one feel pessimistic about the future of the male gender in general. -- Regina Doman
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. -- Ellen DeGeneres
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
The great challenge of the twentieth century ... is to create a new financial architecture in which private decisions produce a less degenerate capitalism. -- Will Hutton
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. -- Clifford Stoll
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. -- Nirmala Srivastava
We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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. -- Brooks Atkinson
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 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
... 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. -- Paul Caponigro
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. -- John Quincy Adams
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. -- John Scarne
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. -- Simon Helberg
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. -- Edward Gibbon
We are in a degenerate state of self-government. In fact, even to use the words self-government, is not only an exaggeration, it's a lie. It's a big lie! -- Jerry Brown
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. -- Jan Tschichold
I think they must mix blood, otherwise the human race is bound to degenerate. Mixing blood is marvelous. It makes strong and intelligent men. It takes away tired spirits. -- Josephine Baker
For a degenerate like me, Vegas is like a walk down memory lane. Last time I went to Vegas, I went to my old coke dealer's kid's bar mitzvah. -- Artie Lange
A poor degenerate from the ape, Whose hands are four, whose tail's a limb, I contemplate my flaccid shape And know I may not rival him Save with my mind. -- Aldous Huxley
Just as the body has its progress and decadence, so also has the mind, and, therefore, the mind is not the soul, because the soul can neither decay nor degenerate. -- Swami Vivekananda
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. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
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. -- Sara Gruen
A people of scholars, if they are physically degenerate, weak-willed and cowardly pacifists, will not storm the heavens, indeed, they will not be able to safeguard their existence on this earth. -- Adolf Hitler
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. -- Arthur C. Clarke
We have either to progress or to degenerate. Our ancestors did great things in the past, but we have to grow into a fuller life and march beyond even their great achievements. -- Swami Vivekananda
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. -- Jean-Georges Noverre
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. -- John Steinbeck
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. -- Jonathan Swift
All in all, the League of Nations is not inevitably bound, as some maintain from time to time, to degenerate into an impotent appendage of first one, then another of the competing great powers -- Hjalmar Branting
My father never permitted anything which I learnt to degenerate into a mere exercise of memory. He strove to make the understanding not only go along with every step of the teaching but...precede it. -- John Stuart Mill
Tattooed men who are not behind bars are either latent criminals or degenerate aristocrats. If someone who is tattooed dies in freedom, then he does so a few years before he would have committed murder. -- Adolf Loos
Frugality and economy are virtues without which no household can prosper. Whatever the income, waste of all kinds should be most sternly repressed ... Economy and frugality must never, however, be allowed to degenerate into meanness. -- Isabella Beeton

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