"Despots prefer the friendship of the dog, who,……" — Charles Fourier

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• We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter… — Lewis H. Lapham
• Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of… — Thomas Jefferson
• They are deceived who flatter themselves that the ignorant and debased slave has no conception of the magnitude of his… — Solomon Northup
• If this spirit shall ever be so far debased, as to tolerate a law not obligatory on the legislature, as… — James Madison
• Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our time, is a marvelous being because he sometimes speaks.… — Octavio Paz
• The generation of consumers who swallow this pessimistic sentiment can't see past the product to its debased morality. Instead, their… — Armond White
• Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own… — Janice Rogers Brown
• The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion… — Nadine Gordimer
• There is one expanding horror in American life. It is that our long odyssey toward liberty, democracy and freedom-for-all may… — Norman Mailer
• Football is a game for trained apes. That, in fact, is what most of the players are -- retarded gorillas… — Edward Abbey
• The idea of choice is easily debased if one forgets that the aim is to have chosen successfully, not to… — George W. S. Trow
• The Senate has been debased to the level of a forum of hate and character assassination sheltered by the shield… — Margaret Chase Smith

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