Made Quote by Dorothea Dix Download Open image “Man is not made better by being degraded.” — Dorothea Dix ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Made Men
Man is not made better by being degraded; he is seldom restrained from crime by harsh measures, except the principle of fear predominates in… — Dorothea Dix Copy Share Image
I have not come into this world to make men better, but to make use of their weaknesses. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
If we take a man as he is, we make him worse, but if we take man as he should be we make him… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
No matter how good or great a man may be, there is yet a better and a greater man within him. — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
For this world that men have made, none of us is bad enough. For the world that made us, none is good enough. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else. — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
They say best men are molded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
[To a woman who claimed she'd rather be dead than unconfined and unfashionable:] My dear, if you continue to lace as tightly as you… — Dorothea Dix Copy Share Image
I have no particular love for my species, but own to an exhaustless fund of compassion — Dorothea Dix Copy Share Image
While we diminish the stimulant of fear, we must increase to prisoners the incitements of hope, in proportion as we extinguish the terrors of… — Dorothea Dix Copy Share Image
The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible. — Dorothea Dix Copy Share Image
Society, during the last hundred years, has been alternately perplexed and encouraged, respecting the two great questions -how shall the criminal and pauper be… — Dorothea Dix Copy Share Image
I proceed, gentlemen, to call your attention to the present state of insane persons confined within the commonwealth; in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens;… — Dorothea Dix Copy Share Image
A man usually values that most for which he has labored; he uses that most frugally which he has toiled hour by hour and… — Dorothea Dix Copy Share Image
in proportion as my own discomfort has increased, my conviction of necessity to search into the wants of the friendless and afflicted has deepened.… — Dorothea Dix Copy Share Image
Once ye made up yer mind to do somethin', 'tis better t'stumble o'er the small hillock of jump-ahead than t'bash yer head on the… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
I made $225.81 a week as an accountant, and I went to $400 a week as a stand-up. I was up to $800 a… — John Pinette Copy Share Image
How could anybody confuse truth with beauty, I thought as I looked at him. Truth came with sunken eyes, bony or scarred, decayed. Its… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
I made, like, five movies while I was in college. I think they just weren't memorable movies. I've taken breaks as the years have… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music made. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I have inside me the winds, the deserts, the oceans, the stars, and everything created in the universe. We were all made by the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
To me, the beauty of a quilt or a dress lies within the stitches and the thought of the person who made them. When… — Natalie Copy Share Image
[The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as I could,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image