Top 25 Degenerates Quotes of 56 - Page 3

Posterity always degenerates till it becomes our ancestors.

Posterity always degenerates till it becomes our ancestors.

Degenerates, Ancestor, Posterity

Horace Walpole, George Vertue (1798). “The Works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford ...”, p.370

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.

Henry David Thoreau

Nerves, Degenerates, Language

Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

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.

Helen Bosanquet

Men, Tyrants, Degenerates

Helen Bosanquet, Bernard Bosanquet (1996). “Helen and Bernard Bosanquet: Works on economics & social welfare: the philosophy of the state and the practice of welfare”

I deplore the pornography and all of the immoral degenerate things that are happening in the USA.

Bill Bright

Usa, Degenerates, Pornography

Source: www.cbn.com

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

Firsts, Degenerates, Well Known

Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon