“Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.”
Charles Horton Cooley
“DEGENERATE, adj. Less conspicuously admirable than one's ancestors. The contemporaries of Homer were striking examples of degeneracy; it required ten of them to raise a rock or a riot that one of the heroes of the Trojan war could have raised with ease. Homer never tires of sneering at "men who live in these degenerate days," which is perhaps why they suffered him to beg his bread --a marked instance of returning good for evil, by the way, for if they had forbidden him he would certainly have starved.”
Ambrose Bierce
“We attribute the upturn in the '90s to a generally more conservative attitude throughout the country and increasing interest in religion.”
Cliff Brewis
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“We believe the high number of violations is attributable to a significant increase in enforcement standards by the MSHA inspectors that examined this mine virtually every day.”
Ben Hatfield
“We believe the high number of violations is attributable to a significant increase in enforcement standards by the MSHA inspectors that examined the mine virtually every day.”
“The rapid increase in such cases can be attributed to the government's enhanced efforts to crack down on IPR violations following China's entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) and citizens' growing awareness of the importance of intellectual property protection.”
Wu Heping
