Quotes about Degenerate

After reporting on such moments, the historian Paul Johnson concludes, "Attempts to perfect Christian societies in this world, whether conducted by popes or revolutionaries, have tended to degenerate into red terrors.

Without the proper engagement in truth, your life will degenerate and you will end up embittered and in hell.

Oft have I heard that grief softens the mind,' Ãƒ¢Ã¢'¬Ã‚ the young woman recited. " Ãƒ¢Ã¢'¬Ã‹œAnd makes it fearful and degenerate; Think therefore on revenge and cease to weep.

That God is great in wisdom, wondrous in power, yet full of mercy, is assumed by many to be almost common knowledge; but, to entertain anything approaching an adequate conception of His being, His nature, His attributes, as these are revealed in Holy Scripture, is something which very, very few people in these degenerate times have attained unto.

For example, a computer virus is a program that will make copies of itself in the memory of a computer, and will transfer itself to other computers. Thus it fits the definition of a living system that I have given. Like a biological virus, it is a rather degenerate form, because it contains only instructions or genes, and doesn't have any metabolism of its own. Instead, it reprograms the metabolism of the host computer, or cell.