Quotes About Degeneration

Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.

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

When hope is taken away from the people moral degeneration follows swiftly after.

Yliopistossa kohtaa eloonjäämisvietin degeneroituja muotoja.

Christianity, the humblest of all faiths, degenerated into the most power-hungry and hierarchical religion on the face of the earth. After the emperor Constantine elevated Christianity to the status of a state religion in A.D. 312, the once-persecuted faith became a fierce persecutor of all its opposition.

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.

The profane sciences of which the modern world is so proud are really and truly only the degenerate 'residues' of the ancient traditional sciences.

Morality fell with society

Prayer is always in danger of degenerating into a glorified gold rush. How to get things from God occupies most [books].

She bathed daily, a practice that fills the body with electrons, countering the free radicals that are a major source of oxidative stress and cell degeneration.

The too perfect security of the Upper-worlders had led them to a slow movement of degeneration, a general dwindling in size, strength, and intelligence.

Everything is good when it leaves the hands of the Creator; everything degenerates in the hands of man.

Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man

In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.

Perché i tempi sono degenerati fino a questo punto? Perché la gioventù, l'ambizione e la semplicità sono decadute e il mondo è diventato così biasimevole?

a samurai is a total human being, whereas a man who is completely absorbed in his technical skill has degenerated into a 'function', one cog in a machine.

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.

It is not dirt but the fear of dirt which is the sign of man's degeneration, and it is dangerous to judge a man's physical and moral sanity by outside standards.

FIGURA 20. Un cartel de propaganda nazi que muestra a la derecha un «ario racialmente puro» y a la izquierda una persona de «raza mezclada». La admiración de los nazis por el cuerpo humano es evidente, como lo es su temor a que las razas inferiores pudieran contaminar a la humanidad y causar su degeneración.

Well, when do we act like sheep: when we act for the sake of the belly, or of our sex-organs, or at random, or in a filthy fashion, or without due consideration, to what level have we degenerated? To the level of sheep.

La gente cree que lo importante es tener éxito, ganar prestigio, conseguir poder, subir por la escala social, servir a la máquina, pero la persona queda estancada. En realidad, más que estancada, empeora ligeramente. Cumplidos los 25 años, ya no se perfeccionan, sino que degeneran, aunque mejoren en el arte de ganar dinero y manipular a los demás. (...) El arte de escuchar

the desire to be near the beloved object is at first not due to the idea of possessing it, but simply to let the two experiences compare themselves, like reflections in different mirrors... For from here love degenerates into habit, possession, and back to loneliness.

Democracy in itself does not define or guarantee a free society. History has told many stories of democratic societies that have degenerated into corruption, plunder, and tyranny.

Luther had said that grace alone can save; his followers took up his doctrine and repeated it word for word. But they left out its invariable corollary, the obligation to discipleship...The justification of the sinner in the world degenerated into the justification of sin and the world. Costly grace was turned into cheap grace without discipleship.