“Is it unnatural that I should have absorbed these things and have become what I am today, a treacherous, degenerate, brutal, human savage, devoid of all decent feeling, without conscience, morals, pity, sympathy, principle or any single good trait? Why am I what I am?”— Carl Panzram, www-rohan.sdsu.edu
“You know that I spent several years in one of those places [reform school] when I was a boy and the so-called Training that I received while there is mainly the cause of my being the degenerate beast that I am today. I have thought about that system of Training young boys for all of my life and I kn…”— Carl Panzram, amazon.com
“It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of maturer age are already sunk into corruption.”— Baron de Montesquieu, amazon.com
“We tried to poison you. We tried to poison you because you are an insane, degenerate piece of filth and you deserve to die.”— George Mastras, Walter White, Bryan Cranston, imdb.com