Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles. — Robert Green Ingersoll 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
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
wealth means power: the power to subdue, to crush, to exploit, the power to enslave, to outrage, to degrade. — Emma Goldman 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
Servitude degrades people to such a point that they come to like it. — Luc de Clapiers 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
An epithet or metaphor drawn from nature ennobles art; an epithet or metaphor drawn from art degrades nature. — Samuel Johnson 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
Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the… — William Blake 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
A big ethical question is what happens after people stop using the device. Does it degrade the environment? Could it have been… — Anonymous 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
If a man is not peaceful and non-violent, whichever religion he belongs to, he is not a man! Violence degrades man to… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
No human being can control love, and no one is to blame either for feeling it or for losing it. What alone… — George Sand 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
...he shall never know how I love him: and that, not because he's handsome, Nelly, but because he is more myself than… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
Such poverty as we have today in all our great cities degrades the poor, and infects with its degradation the whole neighborhood… — George Bernard Shaw 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
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
Today the great gift of God's Creation is exposed to serious dangers and lifestyles which can degrade it. Environmental pollution is making… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
There are certain indicia of marriage - certain legal and social consequences and certain legitimacy - which if given to some relationship… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
Concord is just as idiotic as ever in relation to the spirits and their knockings. Most people here believe in a spiritual… — Henry David Thoreau 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
The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers.… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Let us consider the actual, worldly Jew -- not the Sabbath Jew, as Bauer does, but the everyday Jew. ... What is… — Karl Marx 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
“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
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
All modes of government are failures. Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things. Oligarchies… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Hollywood is a showman's paradise. But showmen make nothing; they exploit what someone else has made. The publisher and the play producer… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Highly unequal societies are morally defective because they get to be that way through the exploitation by the clever and well-positioned ones… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race - the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
