Quotes with degenerate

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• Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

  Peter F. Drucker
  American management consultant and writer (1909 - 2005)
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• Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

  Virgil
  Roman poet (70 - 19)
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• 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
  American author, screenwriter and journalist (1920 - 1999)
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• 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
  English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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• 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
  American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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• 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
  German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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• Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

  Aristotle
  Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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• In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.

  Simone Weil
  French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• unimaginative
• materialism
• immediately
• democracies
• productive
• individual

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