Degenerates Quotes

• 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

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • World
  • Good
  • Men

• The great challenge of the twentieth century ... is to create a new financial architecture in which private decisions produce a less degenerate capitalism.

  

  Will Hutton
  • Decision
  • Financial
  • Capitalism

• 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.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Poem
  • Brief
  • Epigrammatism

• The work of an artist who attempts lovingly to embrace reality, will ring false, will degenerate into kitsch.

  

  Karsten Harries
  • Reality
  • Embrace
  • Kitsch

• Alas, 'tis force alone that can compel to virtuous actions a degenerate people.

  

  Vittorio Alfieri
  • People
  • Action
  • Virtuous

• Oft have I heard that grief softens the mind And makes it fearful and degenerate.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Mind
  • Grief
  • Heard

• 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.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Men
  • Soul
  • Serious