Degeneration Quotes

America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.

I've got what my ma had, macular degeneration, which you get when you get old.

If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general; in particular in the field of human intelligence.

It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.

It would be wrong to assume that one must stay with a research programme until it has exhausted all its heuristic power, that one must not introduce a rival programme before everybody agrees that the point of degeneration has probably been reached.

It is claimed, but with what truth we cannot say, that there is a well-defined propaganda among the aliens of colour to bring about the degeneration of the white race.

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.