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I knew that suffering did not enoble; it degraded. It made men selfish, petty and suspicious. It absorbed them in small things...it made them less… — W. Somerset Maugham
The overall picture, as the boys say, is of a degraded community whose idealism even is largely fake. The pretentiousness, the bogus enthusiasm, the constant… — Raymond Chandler
The young [Nazi] movement is in its nature and inner organization anti-parliamentarian; that is, it rejects... a principle of majority rule in which the leader… — Adolf Hitler
What will we and our daughters suffer if these degraded black men are allowed to have the rights that would make them even worse than… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Coral reefs are under assault. They are rapidly being degraded by human activities. They are over-fished, bombed and poisoned. They are smothered by sediment, and… — Klaus Topfer
Wild as man was, and disgusting as the more degraded tribes and communities were, the best of them, and all those from which further advance… — Henry Adams
The day the army of Virginia allows a negro regiment to enter their lines as soldiers they will be degraded, ruined, and disgraced. — Robert Toombs
The same animal which hath the honour to have some part of his flesh eaten at the table of a duke, may perhaps be degraded… — Henry Fielding
I think all women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols. That's what our purpose is in this business. You're merchandised, you're a product. You're… — Megan Fox
The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians. — Benjamin Disraeli
The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded. — Gustave Flaubert
What I'd really like to write is a romantic comedy. This is my favorite kind of movie. I feel almost embarrassed revealing this, because the… — Mindy Kaling
When I went to school, you had to take art, you had to play an instrument. You had to play an instrument. But it's all… — Spike Lee
When you think of all the conflicts we have - whether those conflicts are local, whether they are regional or global - these conflicts are… — Wangari Maathai
When resources are degraded, we start competing for them, whether it is at the local level in Kenya, where we had tribal clashes over land… — Wangari Maathai
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing… — John Stuart Mill
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded. — George Orwell
The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object… — Simone Weil
I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries… — Simone Weil
The love of Christ reaches to the very depths of earthly misery and woe, or it would not meet the case of the veriest sinner.… — Ellen G. White
Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly… — Mary Wollstonecraft
Wealth and vegetation go together, and that exacerbates environmental injustice. The poor bear the burden of degraded environments. — Natalie Jeremijenko
The global environment crisis is, as we say in Tennessee, real as rain, and I cannot stand the thought of leaving my children with a… — Al Gore
To claim that theft or adultery or lying are "evil" simply reflects our degraded idea of good-—that it has something to do with respect for… — Simone Weil
As humanity perfects itself, man becomes degraded. When everything is reduced to the mere counter-balancing of economic interests, what room will there be for virtue?… — Gustave Flaubert

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