If you would rise, shun luxury, for luxury lowers and degrades. — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
Any time you can degrade or take away the top leadership of an organization, it's a positive step forward. — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
We're not locked in to these conditions that degrade the environment, and jeopardize the future of our children. — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
It's slanderous to report things I didn't say, to degrade my reputation, it's sickening to me. — Ryan Tannehill Copy Share Image
To get rid of predestination we have been willing to degrade our God into a godling. — B. B. Warfield 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
We're going to achieve our goal. We are going to degrade and ultimately defeat ISIL. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If we have power to degrade an entire society, then we also have the power to uplift it. — KRS-One Copy Share Image
Yet living and dying, honour and dishonour, pain and pleasure, riches and poverty, and so forth are equally the lot of good… — Marcus Aurelius 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
[I]t's impossible to evade the fact that Endless War will inevitably degrade the citizenry of the country that engages in it. A… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“I was only going to say that heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping… — Emily Brontë Copy Share Image
“The women in porn plead to be abused. They call themselves whores and sluts. They are beaten and penetrated by groups of… — Chris Hedges 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
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
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
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
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
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