Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
War may make a fool of man, but it by no means degrades him; on the contrary, it tends to exalt him,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Anger is like an intoxicant; it reduces man and degrades him to the level of an animal. — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
This is American leadership at its best. We stand with people who fight for their own freedom, and we rally other nations… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Whilst we want cities as the centres where the best things are found, cities degrade us by magnifying trifles. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“It’s only through the degradation of the soul that you can know who you really are; when all else is stripped away,… — Dianna Hardy Copy Share Image
It is okay not to like someone, but it is never okay to try and degrade, humiliate, or dehumanize them. — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
An epithet or metaphor drawn from nature ennobles art; an epithet or metaphor drawn from art degrades nature. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
I abhor the word "consumer." Consumers, unlike citizens, have no implicit duties, obligations, or responsibilities to the common good. It's a degrading… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The public realm in America has two roles: it is the dwelling place of our civilization and our civic life, and it… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Every serious scientific worker is painfully conscious of this involuntary relegation to an ever-narrowing sphere of knowledge, which threatens to deprive the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Women, porn assets, whether they know it or not, are objects They are whores. These whores deserve to be dominated and abused.… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
It would degrade our country and our judicial system to permit our courts to be bullied, insulted and humiliated and the orderly… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
Our objective is clear: we will degrade, and ultimately destroy, ISIL through a comprehensive and sustained counter-terrorism strategy. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Scientific and technological "solutions" which poison the environment or degrade the social structure and man himself are of no benefit, no matter… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art… — William Blake Copy Share Image
“Nothing humbles a beautiful woman better than not being wanted by a man whose girlfriend or wife is ugly (or not as… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
There is no place in "our Army" for those who sexually harass or intimidate others, or whose use of alcohol or drugs… — Glen E. Morrell Copy Share Image
“But no one could say he hadn't gotten even. He could not count the field women whom he had sexually degraded and… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not so as to degrade other countries. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
How ironical that it is by means of speech that man can degrade himself below the level of dumb creation -- for… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image