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 (18171862)
“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 (19091943)
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