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Letter "D" » degeneration
«America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.»
Author: George Clemenceau
| About:
America and Americans,
Civilization
| Keywords:
barbarism, degeneration, directly, interval, in history, miraculously, usual
«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.»
Author: Vaclav Havel
(Playwright, President)
| Keywords:
alienate, alienated, compelled, degenerate, degeneration, involuntary, supports, support system, the system
«In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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balance, balancing, degeneration, dramatic, government, healthiest, healthy, kind of, nation, prevents, the government, The People, tyrannies, tyranny
«Our degeneration, when it is traced back to its origin in our view of the world really consists in the fact that true optimism has vanished unperceived from our midst.»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Optimism
| Keywords:
degeneration, unperceived, vanished
«Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit!»
«In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.»
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