Degenerate

Famous quotes containing the word degenerate:

    Our brave forefathers have exterminated all the Indians, and their degenerate children no longer dwell in garrisoned houses nor hear any war-whoop in their path.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    A degenerate nobleman is like a turnip. There is nothing good of him but that which is underground.
    Seventeenth-century English saying.

    In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.
    Simone Weil (1909–1943)