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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