Degraded Quotes

94 quotes by 74 authors

Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it. — Benjamin Carson
A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man. — George Eliot
As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded… — Henry David Thoreau
In the whole world no poor devil is lynched, no wretch is tortured, in whom I too am not degraded and murdered. — Aime Cesaire
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
Gymnastics has become degraded as the participants have become younger. Once it was a sport of grace for women, never for little girls. — Vera Caslavska
The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth… — John Stuart Mill
It is due to justice; due to humanity; due to truth; due to the sympathies of our nature; in fine, to our character as a… — James Madison
'I believe in oÂne God and Mohammed the Apostle of God,' is the simple and invariable profession of Islam. The intellectual image of the Deity… — Edward Gibbon
It gradually became clear that the Green Belt Movement's work with communities to repair the degraded environment could not be done effectively without participants embracing… — Wangari Maathai
Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine. — Gilbert Ryle
Every one is degraded, whether aware of it or not, when other people, without consulting him, take upon themselves unlimited power to regulate his destiny. — John Stuart Mill
Before Israel dies, it must be humiliated and degraded. Allah willing, before they die, they will experience humiliation and degradation every day. — Khaled Mashal
The real work of men was hunting meat. The invention of agriculture was a giant step in the wrong direction, leading to serfdom, cities, and… — Edward Abbey
The revival in religion will be a rhetorical problem - new persuasive words for defaced or degraded ones. — Thornton Wilder
Those of us who witness the degraded state of the environment and the suffering that comes with it cannot afford to be complacent. We continue… — Wangari Maathai
I have urged on woman independence of man, not that I do not think the sexes mutually needed by one another, but because in woman… — Margaret Fuller
Why do people think that weâ€™re degraded when weâ€™re examining positions of degradation, or examining the cycle of our own degradation? — Chris Kraus
When we see the world through our thoughts, we stop experiencing life as it really is and others as they really are. When I have… — Adyashanti

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