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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.


James Monroe


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It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.


Charles de Montesquieu


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Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete 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 Nietzsche


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He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse.


Mario Puzo


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Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.


Thomas Jefferson


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The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.


E. T. Bell


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Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.


Lord Acton


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Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.


B. R. Ambedkar


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Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.


Aristotle


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All in all, the League of Nations is not inevitably bound, as some maintain from time to time, to degenerate into an impotent appendage of first one, then another of the competing great powers.


Hjalmar Branting


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