Debasement Quotes

28 quotes by 24 authors

War: A wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization. — Omar N. Bradley
Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source of… — Benjamin Franklin
Slavery is ...an atrocious debasement of human nature. — Benjamin Franklin
Gold is a relic from a time when government's were less trustworthy in these matters (currency debasement) than they are now. — John Maynard Keynes
It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is… — Raymond Chandler
My philosophy of life is that the meek shall inherit nothing but debasement, frustration and ignoble deaths; that there is security in personal strength; that… — Harlan Ellison
Isn't Hollywood a dump-in the human sense of the word. A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting gardens of its rich, full of the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
My philosophy of life is that the meek shall inherit nothing but debasement, frustration, and ignoble deaths. — Harlan Ellison
Why does everybody think that women are debasing themselves when we expose the conditions of our debasement? — Chris Kraus
It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising the sovereignty. Usurpation… — James Monroe
Debasement was limited at first to oneâ€™s own territory. It was then found that one could do better by taking bad coins across the border… — Charles P. Kindleberger
In practice [monetary management] is merely a high-sounding euphemism for continuous currency debasement. It consists of constant lying in order to support constant swindling. Instead… — Henry Hazlitt
We all understand that the debasement of a nations coinage is very pernicious and must prove disastrous to its commerce. How much more dangerous is… — Virchand Gandhi
They want politics and think it will save them. At best, it gives direction to their numbed desires. But there is no politics but the… — Gilbert Sorrentino
He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. Whoever yields to temptation debases himself with a debasement from which he can never arise. — Horace Mann
And just as there are no crimes so detestable that they can prevent the gift of grace, so too there can be no works so… — Prosper of Aquitaine
The fact that there are so many weak, poor and boring stories and novels written and published in America has been ascribed by our rebels… — Saul Bellow
I have nothing against diamonds, or rubies or emeralds or sapphires. I do object when their acquisition is complicit in the debasement of children or… — Edward Zwick
No act loses us; no violence we're subjected to destroys us; no debasement chases out the divine, and no one can take the divine from… — Daniel Odier
In schools of theology Negroes are taught the interpretation of the Bible worked out by those who have justified segregation and winked at the economic… — Carter G. Woodson

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