Degenerates Quotes
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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
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It is clear that a poem may be improperly brief. Undue brevity degenerates into mere epigrammatism. A very short poem, while now and then producing a brilliant or vivid, never produces a profound or enduring, effect. There must be the steady pressing down of the stamp upon the wax.
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Alas, 'tis force alone that can compel to virtuous actions a degenerate people.
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Oft have I heard that grief softens the mind And makes it fearful and degenerate.
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The work of an artist who attempts lovingly to embrace reality, will ring false, will degenerate into kitsch.
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The great challenge of the twentieth century ... is to create a new financial architecture in which private decisions produce a less degenerate capitalism.
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A man's ability cannot possibly be of one sort and his soul of another. If his soul be well-ordered, serious and restrained, his ability also is sound and sober. Conversely, when the one degenerates, the other is contaminated.
