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It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty. Usurpation is then an easy attainment, and an usurper soon found. The people themselves become the willing instruments of their own debasement and ruin. – James Monroe	added by Normando 2 months ago
I’m calling it what it is. Radicalization and violence from extremists is the direct result of people like my opponent @RepMikeGarcia, mr. Pelosi and the family are owed an apology from you Mike. The people of this country deserve better than your abject degenerate politics. – Christy Smith	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We need to get them the treatments they need so this does not degenerate into a much larger crisis, just because of the enormity of COVID in the U.S., the numbers here represent really millions of people. – Ziyad Al-Aly	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
[D]emocracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man's life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit and science, to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable cruelty of one or a very few. – John Adams	added by Normando 4 years ago
We can protest peacefully to show our disapproval but things can only degenerate if authorities unjustly employ brutal force. – Hamadou Saley	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Mets fans are more degenerate. – John Walsh	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of living in this way. Therefore not only does the system alienate humanity, but at the same time alienated humanity supports this system as its own involuntary master plan, as a degenerate image of its own degeneration, as a record of people's own failure as individuals. – Václav Havel	added by anonymous 11 years ago
I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in them if they degenerate into the sole end of any one's existence. I don't want you to sacrifice standing well in your studies to any over-athleticism and I need not tell you that character counts for a great deal more than either intellect or body in winning success in life. Athletic proficiency is a mighty good servant, and like so many other good servants, a mighty bad master. – Theodore Roosevelt	added by anonymous 15 years ago
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. – Peter Drucker	added by anonymous 15 years ago
Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of living in this way. Therefore not only does the system alienate humanity, but at the same time alienated humanity supports this system as its own involuntary masterplan, as a degenerate image of its own degeneration, as a record of people's own failure as individuals. – Vaclav Havel	added by anonymous 15 years ago
Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow. – Elias Boudinot	added by anonymous 15 years ago
It is not the young people that degenerate they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption. – Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu	added by anonymous 15 years ago
Nothing is beautiful, only man on this piece of navety rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second nothing is ugly but degenerate man-the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined. – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche	added by anonymous 15 years ago

It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty. Usurpation is then an easy attainment, and an usurper soon found. The people themselves become the willing instruments of their own debasement and ruin.

– James Monroe

added by Normando
2 months ago

I’m calling it what it is. Radicalization and violence from extremists is the direct result of people like my opponent @RepMikeGarcia, mr. Pelosi and the family are owed an apology from you Mike. The people of this country deserve better than your abject degenerate politics.

– Christy Smith

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We need to get them the treatments they need so this does not degenerate into a much larger crisis, just because of the enormity of COVID in the U.S., the numbers here represent really millions of people.

– Ziyad Al-Aly

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

[D]emocracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man's life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit and science, to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable cruelty of one or a very few.

– John Adams

added by Normando
4 years ago

We can protest peacefully to show our disapproval but things can only degenerate if authorities unjustly employ brutal force.

– Hamadou Saley

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Mets fans are more degenerate.

– John Walsh

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of living in this way. Therefore not only does the system alienate humanity, but at the same time alienated humanity supports this system as its own involuntary master plan, as a degenerate image of its own degeneration, as a record of people's own failure as individuals.

– Václav Havel

added by anonymous
11 years ago

I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in them if they degenerate into the sole end of any one's existence. I don't want you to sacrifice standing well in your studies to any over-athleticism and I need not tell you that character counts for a great deal more than either intellect or body in winning success in life. Athletic proficiency is a mighty good servant, and like so many other good servants, a mighty bad master.

– Theodore Roosevelt