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Quotes About Degenerate

Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas without eating a chicken fried steak.
~ Larry McMurtry
It is the perfect contradiction: It is glamorous and degenerate, cultured and crude, beautiful and detestable, ethical and decadent, exciting and scary all at the same time.
~ Leslie Haskin
The work of an artist who attempts lovingly to embrace reality, will ring false, will degenerate into kitsch.
~ Karsten Harries
Beldin sighed. Since you're going to be such a spoilsport for this, Pol, I found a group of sheephenders below the snow line. Shepherds, uncle, she corrected. It means the same thing. If you really look at it, it's even the same word, Shepherd sounds nicer. Nicer. He snorted. Sheep are stupid, they smell bad, and they taste worse. Anybody who spends his life tending them is either defective or degenerate.
~ David Eddings
When civil society languishes, when the life of organizations and voluntary associations is curtailed, then sooner or later political parties will begin to languish as well, until, ultimately, they become degenerate ghettos whose only purpose is to elevate their members into positions of power.
~ Vaclav Havel
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
~ Charles Ives
Emigrate or Degenerate.
~ Philip K. Dick
The people's degenerate taste--sick and twisted to be sure--is a product of their disaffection from art, top-down programming, and the power of commercial psyop mind control. They can be guided out of the toilet just as they were guided in.
~ Unknown
The main problem is that most commentators are accustomed to thinking of spiritual schools as 'systems', which are more or less alike, and which depend upon dogma and ritual: and especially upon repetition and the application of continual and standardised pressures upon their followers. The Sufi way, except in degenerate forms which are not to be classified as Sufic, is entirely different from this.
~ Idries Shah
The Sufis regard systems which treat everyone alike as mechanical and degenerate.
~ Idries Shah
Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.
~ Virgil
After reporting on such moments, the historian Paul Johnson concludes, "Attempts to perfect Christian societies in this world, whether conducted by popes or revolutionaries, have tended to degenerate into red terrors.
~ Philip Yancey
Relatively few who could be described as a Red-haired dejenerate Pox-ridden Usuring Son of a Bitch who skulks in Brothels when not drunk and comitting Riot in the Street, I imagine.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Type production has gone mad, with its senseless outpouring of new types... only in degenerate times can personality (opposed to the nameless masses) become the aim of human development.
~ Jan Tschichold
but anything overtly religious filled him with a pagan alarm; and I believe that like Pliny, whom he resembled in so many respects, he secretly thought it to be a degenerate cult carried to extravagant lengths.
~ Donna Tartt
Fear is the proof of a degenerate mind.
~ Virgil