Of the two, I prefer those who render vice lovable to those who degrade virtue. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Liberty, when it degrades into licentiousness, begets confusion, and frequently ends in tyranny or some woeful confusion. — George Washington Copy Share Image
The preaching that ignores the doctrine of Hell lowers the holiness of God and degrades the work of Christ. — Paul Stewart Copy Share Image
People degrade themselves in order to make machines seem smart all the time. — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Nothing degrades a man do more than the allowed stoop so low as to hate someone — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Servitude degrades people to such a point that they come to like it. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
There are two ways to become famous. Degrade yourself or have talent. The first way is easier. — Gary Janetti Copy Share Image
I mean, if you degrade someone, you isolate them, you control them, you call them names, you demean them. That's a horrible… — Phil McGraw Copy Share Image
There is nothing derogatory in any employment which ministers to the well-being of the race. It is the spirit that is carried… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Believing ourselves to be possessors of absolute truth degrades us: we regard every person whose way of thinking is different from ours… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
In many rural areas of the world, local communities use kerosene for indoor lighting, which leads to asthma, poor quality of light,… — Olafur Eliasson Copy Share Image
If someone does me injury I must desire that this injury shall not degrade me. I must desire this out of love… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Man cannot degrade woman without himself falling into degradation; he cannot elevate her without at the same time elevating himself. — Alexander Walker Copy Share Image
Meet hatred with hatred and you degrade yourself. Meet hatred with love and you elevate not only yourself but also the one… — Ralph Waldo Trine Copy Share Image
This one fact the world hates; that the soul becomes; for that forever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“And she looked upon the mirror that was given as a gift. She hated everything about it, from the circular size of… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
My primary object is to defend and advance a principle in which I see the only possible relief from much that enthralls… — Henry George Copy Share Image
Many of our actions degrade our habitat because we undertake them in order to reach goals whose allure blinds us to myriad… — Steven M. Stanley Copy Share Image
Some ISPs are blocking all BitTorrent traffic, because BitTorrent can be used to share files in a piratical way. Hollywood lobbying groups… — Wil Wheaton Copy Share Image
Often men's impulses to coerce and degrade women seem to express not a confident assumption of dominance but a desire to retaliate… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
If you've got the platform and the ability to make a difference, then this goes beyond 'should' and reaches the level of… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
She who only finds her self-esteem In others' admiration, begs an alms; Depends on others for her daily food, And is the… — Joanna Baillie Copy Share Image
In Iraq and Syria, American leadership - including our military power - is stopping ISIL's advance, instead of getting dragged into another… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
wealth means power: the power to subdue, to crush, to exploit, the power to enslave, to outrage, to degrade. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants. — Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Copy Share Image
“We degrade God too much, ascribing to him our ideas, in vexation at being unable to understand Him.” — Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
This is a core principle of my presidency - if you threaten America, you will find no safe haven. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Online petitions are built around getting as many signatures as possible. But the experience of taking them and forgetting about them degrades… — Margaret D. Klein Copy Share Image
The enormous expectation having to do with sexual love and the shame involved in this expectation degrades all a woman's perspectives from… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Good is that which elevates the mind, and evil, is that which degrades the mind. Social virtue and vice are temporal entities.… — Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar Copy Share Image
I don't think we've got the concept in the West that male desire degrades men. Or that if men become sexually active,… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions-bound together by a single unity, the unity of freedom and equality.… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If all the sins of the flesh are worthy of condemnation because by them man allows himself to be dominated by that… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
It's horrible to be a sex object at any age, but at least when you're an adult you can make the decision… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
War is not the only arena where peace is done to death. Wherever suffering is ignored, there will be the seeds of… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
Color is made to obscure the brightest endowments, to degrade the fairest character, and to check the highest and most praiseworthy aspirations. — Charles Lenox Remond Copy Share Image
The outsourcing of our memory to machines expands the amount of data to which we have access, but degrades our brain’s own… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade, as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. But a modest assertion of one's own… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
