Degrade Quote by Isaiah Berlin

Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform or even maintain civilization, and capable…

— Rebecca West

All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning…

— Isaiah Berlin

“They need a social mechanism to make us require conformity of one other, and the best way to do that is to provide a…

— Charles Stross

Those who keep the masses of men in subjection by exercising force and cruelty deprive them at once of two vital foods, liberty and…

— Simone Weil

A habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the moral; and men lose at once the power of protecting themselves, and of discerning the…

— Joel Barlow

It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it — in other words, by becoming civilized — that men become fully human.

— Theodore Dalrymple

The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.

— Albert Camus

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.

— Simone de Beauvoir

One fact stands out in bold relief in the history of man's attempts for betterment. That is that when compulsion is used, only resentment…

— Samuel Gompers

Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light.

— Russell Kirk

“Men do not become what by nature they are meant to be, but what society makes them... generous feelings... are, as it were, shrunk…

— Elbridge Colby

To indoctrinate boys into the rules of patriarchy, we force them to feel pain and to deny their feelings.

— Bell Hooks