Degrade Quotes
94 quotes by 81 authors
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All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
— Aristotle
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The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice…
— William Blake
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Nothing is gained except by sacrifice.... Do not degrade it to the level of the brutes.... Make yourselves decent men! ... Be chaste and pure!…
— Swami Vivekananda
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You degrade us and then ask why we are degraded. You shut our mouths and ask why we don't speak. You close your colleges and…
— Frederick Douglass
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Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame;…
— William Blake
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We're not locked in to these conditions that degrade the environment, and jeopardize the future of our children.
— Dennis Kucinich
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A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion.
— Hugo Black
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But to manipulate men, to propel them toward goals which you-the social reformers-see, but they may not, is to deny their human essence, to treat…
— Isaiah Berlin
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We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions-bound together by a single unity, the unity of freedom and equality. Whoever seeks to…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Our objective is clear: we will degrade, and ultimately destroy, ISIL through a comprehensive and sustained counter-terrorism strategy.
— Barack Obama
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Don't you long to shout to those youths who are bustling around you: Fools! Leave those worldly things that shackle the heart - and very…
— Josemaria Escriva
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Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race - the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for…
— Mark Twain
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People go for help, but their lives don't get better because of those psychiatric drugs. They get worse. They feel numb and they're told that's…
— Tom Cruise
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If we have power to degrade an entire society, then we also have the power to uplift it.
— KRS-One
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If the society that we're talking about is a society that starts wars all over the world, degrades indigenous cultures, is misogynistic in itself, if…
— KRS-One
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I would be saying to the Iranians, you either open those facilities, begin to dismantle them and make them available to inspectors or we will…
— Rick Santorum
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Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own…
— Ann Radcliffe
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Education in the United States is a passion and a paradox. Millions want it, and commend it, and are busy about it. At the same…
— Jacques Barzun
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They cannot degrade Frederick Douglass. The soul that is within me no man can degrade. I am not the one that is being degraded on…
— Frederick Douglass
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It's horrible to be a sex object at any age, but at least when you're an adult you can make the decision if you want…
— Natalie Portman
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