Degeneration Quotes

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.

One of the main arguments that I make in my new book, 'The Great Degeneration,' is that the rule of law in the U.S. is becoming the rule of lawyers.

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.

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.

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