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Degraded Quotes by Simone Weil
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
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- As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could… — Henry David Thoreau
- The global environment crisis is, as we say in Tennessee, real as rain, and I cannot stand the thought of leaving my… — Al Gore
- Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent… — Benjamin Carson
- A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man. — George Eliot
- In the whole world no poor devil is lynched, no wretch is tortured, in whom I too am not degraded and murdered. — Aime Cesaire
- War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which… — John Stuart Mill
- It gradually became clear that the Green Belt Movement's work with communities to repair the degraded environment could not be done effectively… — Wangari Maathai
- Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine. — Gilbert Ryle