Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon.
Men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels, rather than elevated apes.
There is a certain class of people who prefer to say that their fathers came down in the world through their own follies than to boast that they rose in the world through their own industry and talents. It is the same shabby-genteel sentiment, the same vanity of birth which makes men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels rather than elevated apes.
He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.
Western culture has more need because they're so much more degenerated. They're so much more hurt, and misbalanced completely.
Philosophy has degenerated into ideology.
Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills.
The sad and tragic fact is that the civil rights movement, despite its honorable and courageous past, has over the years degenerated into a demagogic hustle, promoting the mindless racism they once fought against.
Christianity was created by some decadent and degenerated Romans as a tool of oppression, in the late Roman era, and it should be treated accordingly. It is like handcuffs to the mind and spirit and is nothing but destructive to mankind. In fact I don't really see Christianity as a religion. It is more like a spiritual plague, a mass psychosis, and it should first and foremost be treated as a problem to be solved by the medical science. Christianity is a diagnosis. It's like Islam and the other Asian religions, a HIVAIDS of the spirit and mind.
Unless a decision has degenerated into work, it is not a decision; it is at best a good intention.
Over the years, our political system has degenerated to the extent that it is difficult for anyone to make any headway yet keep his hands clean.
I'm afraid I've degenerated into a bibliophile.
