Degrades Quotes
60 quotes by 53 authors
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Believing ourselves to be possessors of absolute truth degrades us: we regard every person whose way of thinking is different from ours as a monster…
— Octavio Paz
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It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.
— Susan Sontag
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There is no place in "our Army" for those who sexually harass or intimidate others, or whose use of alcohol or drugs degrades themselves and…
— Glen E. Morrell
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I'm calling for all responsible Americans to fight back and punish Pepsi for using a man who degrades women, who encourages substance abuse, and does…
— Bill O'Reilly
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It degrades from the equal rank of Citizens all those whose opinions in Religion do not bend to those of the Legislative authority. Distant as…
— James Madison
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War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. It degrades and stupefies with the sense that you are not responsible, that 'tis…
— Alexander Berkman
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What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very real one, which…
— Albert Camus
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If you would rise, shun luxury, for luxury lowers and degrades.
— Saint John Chrysostom
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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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The outsourcing of our memory to machines expands the amount of data to which we have access, but degrades our brain’s own ability to remember…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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My meaning is, that no man can expect his children to respect what he degrades.
— Charles Dickens
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The decision to give an indicative date for a return is a mistake. It degrades the process. It degrades human life.
— David Trimble
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Let us consider the actual, worldly Jew -- not the Sabbath Jew, as Bauer does, but the everyday Jew. ... What is the worldly religion…
— Karl Marx
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It is not true that sex degrades women... if it is any good.
— Steve Coogan
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Women have the right to say: this is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades.
— Tillie Olsen
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It is not the principled partisan, however obnoxious he may seem to his opponents, who degrades our public debate, but the preening, self-styled statesman who…
— Tom DeLay
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Tyranny brings ignorance and brutality with it. It degrades men from their just rank into the class of brutes; it damps their spirits; it suppresses…
— Jonathan Mayhew
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Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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If all the sins of the flesh are worthy of condemnation because by them man allows himself to be dominated by that which he has…
— Thomas Aquinas
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Slave power crushes freedom of speech and of opinion. Slave power degrades labor. Slave power is arrogant, is jealous and intrusive, is cruel, is despotic,…
— Elizabeth Van Lew
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