Degenerates Quotes - Page 2

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.

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.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

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

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

Everything degenerates in the hands of man.

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.

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

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

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.

All good strategy eventually degenerates into work.

Change is almost always negative. Things degenerate.

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.

Alas, 'tis force alone that can compel to virtuous actions a degenerate people.

Aristocracy has a tendency to degenerate the human species.

Art must be in touch with nature - and wherever that touch is gone, Art degenerates - yet it must be above nature.

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.

The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

The profession to which we belong, once venerated...-has become corrupt and degenerate to the forfeiture of its social position.

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

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.

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.

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 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."