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And I don't see that popular measures, self-abnegation and democracy have done anything for Man but push him further into the mud. Currently, popularity endorses… — L. Ron Hubbard
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall… — Henry Mayhew
For nearly 2,000 years of Christian civilization, taking the life of an unborn child was regarded as a vile and heinous moral offense which degraded… — Unknown Author
For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy — Bertrand Russell
Language is the dress of thought; and as the noblest mien or most graceful action would be degraded and obscured by a garb appropriated to… — Samuel Johnson
Recycling is more expensive for communities than it needs to be, partly because traditional recycling tries to force materials into more lifetimes than they are… — William McDonough
Slavery as an institution that degraded man to a thing has never died out. In some periods of history it has flourished: many civilizations have… — Unknown Author
By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of… — Henry David Thoreau
Tolerance of Cruelty in any form is a degraded state of mind and soul. When we freely allow the massacre and prolonged torture of defenseless… — Unknown Author
No woman can become or remain degraded without all women suffering. — Emily Murphy
The 1970s was the decade of liberation, of anger at injustice and demands for recognition and rights. But over time, the demand for specific rights… — Michael Foley
The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded. It is a doctrine alike of the oldest and of the newest… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Business is a subset of the environment, not the other way around. You can't have a healthy economy, you can't have a healthy anything in… — Peter Coyote
So many people have won Emmys, so many people have won multiple Emmys that I think it's a degraded award. — Tony Randall
Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle… — Mary Wollstonecraft
Contraceptive methods are like putting a premium on vice. It makes men and women reckless... As it is, man has sufficiently degraded woman for his… — Mahatma Gandhi
There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an inquisition. One is the system of… — Mark Twain
People are always angry at anyone who chooses very individual standards for his life; because of the extraordinary treatment which that man grants to himself,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Then, we realize that the degraded cocoon we have been hiding in is revolting, and we want to turn up the lights as far as… — Chogyam Trungpa
Sinning persons are just like this boy who fell into the drain. Now, high or low, upgraded or degraded, all are equal. All are equal… — Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar
What are you to do? You are always to remember that you are the child of a Great Father. You must not think that you… — Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar
Somehow Photoshop and the ease with which one can produce an image has degraded the quality of photography in general. — Elliott Erwitt
The divine right of kings may have been a plea for feeble tyrants, but the divine right of government is the keystone of human progress,… — Benjamin Disraeli
I am sure no other civilization, not even the Romans, has showed such a vast proportion of ignominious and degraded nudity, and ugly, squalid dirty… — D. H. Lawrence
Whenever any American's life is taken by another American unnecessarily - whether it is done in the name of the law or in the defiance… — Robert Kennedy

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