Degenerates Quotes

The primary reason to outlaw marijuana is its effect on the degenerate races.

All knowledge degenerates into probability.

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

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.

The human mind is like Van Halen. If you just pull out one piece and keep replacing it, it just degenerates.

Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas without eating a chicken fried steak.

It is when it is contended that "in a democracy right is what the majority makes it to be" that democracy degenerates into demagoguery.

I would rather be a transformed ape than a degenerate son of Adam.

Degenerates are not always criminals, prostitutes, anarchists and pronounced lunatics; they are often authors and artists

Society has no business to permit degenerates to reproduce their kind

Every good idea sooner or later degenerates into hard work.

I became a degenerate artist. My parents were shaped by their own experiences, and artists weren't so useful in the death camps.

God's mercy on you degenerate swine.

Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness, and ends in madness and folly.

Assimilation is the way you excuse yourself. It absolutely never worked at all. You may not think you are noticeable. But they know who you are. They know you're a degenerate, and they've never forgotten that.

We should not permit tolerance to degenerate into indifference.

The activities of these parasites and degenerates gave rise to Cubism, Fauvism, Futurism, Pointillism, Constructivism, Orphism, Surrealism, Dada, and also Impossibleism, Supersurrealism, Dynamic Double-Dog Realism, Ishkabibbleism, and Mama, which is like Dada only nicer.

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.

Prayer and action...can never be seen as contradictory or mutually exclusive. Prayer without action grows into powerless pietism, and action without prayer degenerates into questionable manipulation.

Derivative trading with mark-to-market accounting degenerates into mark-to-model. Two firms make a big derivative trade and the accountants on both sides show a large profit from the same trade.

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

Where flowers degenerate man cannot live.

Emigrate or Degenerate.

Oft have I heard that grief softens the mind And makes it fearful and degenerate.

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.

Investigation is a subtle process, requiring patience and fine analytical ability, as well as a skill in cultivating one's sources. When torture is condoned, these rare talented people leave the service, having been outstripped by less gifted colleagues with their quick-fix methods, and the service itself degenerates into a playground for sadists.

Everything degenerates in the hands of man.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess.

In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking.

Alas! poor human nature, pity, if hard pressed, degenerates into contempt.

In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.

When television killed comedy and love stories, the movie makers went in slugging. They offered the downbeat, the degenerate as competition. This seems to me to be a sad campaign for Hollywood to use to combat box office disaster.

The most persistent hate is that which doth degenerate from love.

The great challenge of the twentieth century ... is to create a new financial architecture in which private decisions produce a less degenerate capitalism.

All good strategy eventually degenerates into work.

Fear is the proof of a degenerate mind.

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.

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.

The empiric easily degenerates into the quack. He does not know where his knowledge begins or leaves off, and so when he gets beyond routine conditions he begins to pretend-to make claims for which there is no justification, and to trust to luck and to ability to impose upon others-to "bluff."

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.

The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Religion increasingly is tending to degenerate into a decent formula wherewith to embellish a comfortable life.

Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy.

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.

As the condition of America and the world degenerates, it is we who are the weak or the poor or the ignorant who feel it worse.

Change is almost always negative. Things degenerate.

Aristocracy has a tendency to degenerate the human species.

I am afraid that you have been listening to the conversation of someone older than yourself. That is always a dangerous thing to do, and if you allow it to degenerate into a habit, you will find it absolutely fatal to any intellectual development.

It would seem as if the very language of our parlors would lose all its nerve and degenerate into palaver wholly, our lives pass at such remoteness from its symbols, and its metaphors and tropes are necessarily so far fetched.