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God's mercy on you degenerate swine.
Fear is the proof of a degenerate mind.
Where flowers degenerate man cannot live.
Everything degenerates in the hands of man.
All knowledge degenerates into probability.
All good strategy eventually degenerates into work.
Change is almost always negative. Things degenerate.
The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.
Every good idea sooner or later degenerates into hard work.
Posterity always degenerates till it becomes our ancestors.
Aristocracy has a tendency to degenerate the human species.
Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.
We should not permit tolerance to degenerate into indifference.
The most persistent hate is that which doth degenerate from love.
I would rather be a transformed ape than a degenerate son of Adam.
Society has no business to permit degenerates to reproduce their kind
Alas! poor human nature, pity, if hard pressed, degenerates into contempt.
The primary reason to outlaw marijuana is its effect on the degenerate races.
Alas, 'tis force alone that can compel to virtuous actions a degenerate people.
Oft have I heard that grief softens the mind And makes it fearful and degenerate.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness, and ends in madness and folly.
I deplore the pornography and all of the immoral degenerate things that are happening in the USA.
In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.
Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas without eating a chicken fried steak.
Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess.
The human mind is like Van Halen. If you just pull out one piece and keep replacing it, it just degenerates.
Religion increasingly is tending to degenerate into a decent formula wherewith to embellish a comfortable life.
Art must be in touch with nature - and wherever that touch is gone, Art degenerates - yet it must be above nature.
Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy.
Degenerates are not always criminals, prostitutes, anarchists and pronounced lunatics; they are often authors and artists
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
It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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 profession to which we belong, once venerated...-has become corrupt and degenerate to the forfeiture of its social position.
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.
I became a degenerate artist. My parents were shaped by their own experiences, and artists weren't so useful in the death camps.
It is when it is contended that "in a democracy right is what the majority makes it to be" that democracy degenerates into demagoguery.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.