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1 " You know a relationship has deteriorated past the point of salvage when one person detests another's gestures. "
― Josephine Humphreys , Rich in Love
2 " Friend: A potential enemy with whom relations have not yet deteriorated to all-out war "
― Bangambiki Habyarimana , The Great Pearl of Wisdom
3 " If I beat my grandmother to death to-morrow in the middle of Battersea Park, you may be perfectly certain that people will say everything about it except the simple and fairly obvious fact that it is wrong. Some will call it insane; that is, will accuse it of a deficiency of intelligence. This is not necessarily true at all. You could not tell whether the act was unintelligent or not unless you knew my grandmother. Some will call it vulgar, disgusting, and the rest of it; that is, they will accuse it of a lack of manners. Perhaps it does show a lack of manners; but this is scarcely its most serious disadvantage. Others will talk about the loathsome spectacle and the revolting scene; that is, they will accuse it of a deficiency of art, or æsthetic beauty. This again depends on the circumstances: in order to be quite certain that the appearance of the old lady has definitely deteriorated under the process of being beaten to death, it is necessary for the philosophical critic to be quite certain how ugly she was before. Another school of thinkers will say that the action is lacking in efficiency: that it is an uneconomic waste of a good grandmother. But that could only depend on the value, which is again an individual matter. The only real point that is worth mentioning is that the action is wicked, because your grandmother has a right not to be beaten to death. But of this simple moral explanation modern journalism has, as I say, a standing fear. It will call the action anything else—mad, bestial, vulgar, idiotic, rather than call it sinful. "
― G.K. Chesterton , All Things Considered
4 " Mitch's take on humanity had deteriorated to the point where he assumed someone was lying if her lips were moving. "
― Jennifer Crusie , What The Lady Wants
5 " Deteriorated science is a cult, so is imitative or deteriorated Sufism. "
― Idries Shah , Seeker After Truth
6 " Much religious teaching in the world is in reality a confused or deteriorated form, very different from its roots. "
― Idries Shah , Sufi Thought and Action
7 " For eight years I was an inmate in a state asylum for the insane. During those years I passed through such unbearable terror that I deteriorated into a wild, frightened creature intent only on survival. And I survived. I was raped by orderlies, gnawed on by rats and poisoned by tainted food. I was chained in padded cells, strapped into strait-jackets and half-drowned in ice baths. And I survived. The asylum itself was a steel trap, and I was not released from its jaws alive and victorious. I crawled out mutilated, whimpering and terribly alone. But I did survive. "
8 " In Egypt, every family is suffering from the deteriorated schooling and university system of the Mubarak regime. What families want most of all is to secure a good education for their children. "