Best Degrades Quotes
60 Degrades quotes by 53 unique authors
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Men who have lived significant lives are men who never waited: not for money, security, ease, or women. Feel what you want to give most…
— David Deida
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Liberty, when it degrades into licentiousness, begets confusion, and frequently ends in tyranny or some woeful confusion.
— George Washington
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See yourself living in a new body. Hopeful = recovery. Happy = happier biochemistry. Stress degrades the bod.
— Rhonda Byrne
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Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
— Boethius
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Good is that which elevates the mind, and evil, is that which degrades the mind. Social virtue and vice are temporal entities. These things have…
— Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar
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War may make a fool of man, but it by no means degrades him; on the contrary, it tends to exalt him, and its net…
— H. L. Mencken
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In human history a moral victory is always a disaster, for it debauches and degrades both the victor and the vanquished.
— H. L. Mencken
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Psychoanalysis is a technique we practice at our cost; psychoanalysis degrades our risks, our dangers, our depths; it strips us of our impurities, of all…
— Emile M. Cioran
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Every serious scientific worker is painfully conscious of this involuntary relegation to an ever-narrowing sphere of knowledge, which threatens to deprive the investigator of his…
— Albert Einstein
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Whoever degrades another degrades me.
— Walt Whitman
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This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging…
— Azar Nafisi
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Wine is the source of the greatest evils among communities. It causes diseases, quarrels, seditions, idleness, aversion to labor, and family disorders. . . .…
— Francois Fenelon
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Anger is like an intoxicant; it reduces man and degrades him to the level of an animal.
— Sathya Sai Baba
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As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
— Annie Dillard
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A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.
— Muhammad Iqbal
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We need to learn... how war brutalises and degrades winners and losers alike and what happens to us when, having heedlessly waged war for no…
— Tony Judt
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Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.
— George Sand
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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.
— Simone Weil
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Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.
— Walt Whitman
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Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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The junk merchant doesn't sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise.…
— William S. Burroughs
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You punk asshole. What was this? A game for you? This is my life’s work you just annihilated and for what? Shits and giggles? Or…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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... motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.
— Frank Herbert
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When the will loves anything that is below it in dignity, it degrades itself.
— Fulton J. Sheen
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The argument that capital punishment degrades the state is moonshine, for if that were true then it would degrade the state to send men to…
— H. L. Mencken
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