There is only one way to degrade mankind permanently and that is to destroy language. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Tyranny brings ignorance and brutality with it. It degrades men from their just rank into the class of brutes; it damps their… — Jonathan Mayhew Copy Share Image
During the last decades, films about the black experience have been produced, directed, and even scripted by white men. Some of them… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Slave power crushes freedom of speech and of opinion. Slave power degrades labor. Slave power is arrogant, is jealous and intrusive, is… — Elizabeth Van Lew Copy Share Image
Even healthy families need outside sources of moral guidance to keep those tensions from imploding--and this means, among other things, a public… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Fashion, leader of a chatt'ring train, Whom man for his own hurt permits to reign Who shifts and changes all things but… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Tshe suffering of adversity does not degrade you but exalts you. Human tribulation teaches you; it does not destroy you. The more… — Isidore of Seville Copy Share Image
“Until this point Tiffany had assumed that abusers... must live in denial. If not, how could they go on? How could you… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It would seem that if despotism were to be established among the democratic nations of our days, it might assume a different… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title. The thing is perfectly harmless in itself, but it marks a sort… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The Church has been and now is unalterably opposed to gambling in any form whatever. It is opposed to any game of… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
The grand design of nature perceived broadly in four dimensions, including the forces that move the universe and created man, with special… — Roger Wolcott Sperry Copy Share Image
The moment anyone tries to demean or degrade you in any way, you have to know how great you are. Nobody would… — Cicely Tyson Copy Share Image
Biodiversity is the totality of all inherited variation in the life forms of Earth, of which we are one species. We study… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Media corporations have a civic responsibility not only to prevent fraud and financial abuse, but also to not corrupt or degrade our… — Charles W. Pickering Copy Share Image
The chaste severity of the fathers in whatever related to the commerce of the two sexes flowed from the same principle --… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Family members have a personal stake in honoring and mourning their dead and objecting to unwarranted public exploitation that, by intruding upon… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
Women, who are the prime victims of religion, and perhaps in some, stockholm syndrome effect, often form the most fervent advocates of… — Matthew Chapman Copy Share Image
An elite class that is free to operate without limits - whether limits imposed by the rule of law or fear of… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
It is not the principled partisan, however obnoxious he may seem to his opponents, who degrades our public debate, but the preening,… — Tom DeLay Copy Share Image
