Debased Quotes

34 quotes by 32 authors

We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man may… — Lewis H. Lapham
Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who read and reflect,… — Thomas Jefferson
They are deceived who flatter themselves that the ignorant and debased slave has no conception of the magnitude of his wrongs. They are deceived who… — Solomon Northup
If this spirit shall ever be so far debased, as to tolerate a law not obligatory on the legislature, as well as on the people,… — James Madison
Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our time, is a marvelous being because he sometimes speaks. Language is the mark, the… — Octavio Paz
The generation of consumers who swallow this pessimistic sentiment can't see past the product to its debased morality. Instead, their excitement about The Dark Knight's… — Armond White
Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is:… — Janice Rogers Brown
The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by… — Nadine Gordimer
There is one expanding horror in American life. It is that our long odyssey toward liberty, democracy and freedom-for-all may be achieved in such a… — Norman Mailer
Football is a game for trained apes. That, in fact, is what most of the players are -- retarded gorillas wearing helmets and uniforms. The… — Edward Abbey
The idea of choice is easily debased if one forgets that the aim is to have chosen successfully, not to be endlessly choosing. — George W. S. Trow
The Senate has been debased to the level of a forum of hate and character assassination sheltered by the shield of congressional immunity. — Margaret Chase Smith
Despots prefer the friendship of the dog, who, unjustly mistreated and debased, still loves and serves the man who wronged him. — Charles Fourier
I have been accused of being a â€˜black magician.â€™ No more foolish statement was ever made about me. I despise the thing to such an… — Aleister Crowley
They are a great essay in male friendship, which has gone now. Men's friendship has been debased. One of the lovely things about Holmes and… — Jeremy Brett
Albertus [Magnus] ... debased the doctrine of Aristotle with the itch of the chemists flowing with the bloody flux of quicksilver and the stench of… — Georgius Agricola
Men are not corrupted by the exercise of power or debased by the habit of obedience, but by the exercise of a power which they… — Alexis de Tocqueville
The study of eugenics had its beginning in Germany, sometime after the mid-19th century mark, stimulated by volkish concerns for Aryan racial purity. Rudolf Virchow,… — Jim Keith
You have debased my child....You have made him a laughingstock of intelligence...a stench in the nostrils of the gods of the ionosphere. — Lee De Forest
What necessity impels a writer who has produced fifty books to write still one more? Why this proliferation, this fear of being forgotten, this debased… — Emile M. Cioran

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