Degrade Quotes - Page 9

• In many rural areas of the world, local communities use kerosene for indoor lighting, which leads to asthma, poor quality of light, and the desperate cycle of oil-based products that continually degrade the environment.

  Olafur Eliasson

  Poor Quality, Light, Oil

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• Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

  Frederick Douglass

  Peace, Patriotic, Ignorance

  Speech on the twenty-fourth anniversary of emancipation in the District of Columbia,Washington, D.C., Apr. 1886

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• I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I resolved then that I would permit no man, no matter what his color, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

  Booker T. Washington

  Hate, Men, Color

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• Online petitions are built around getting as many signatures as possible. But the experience of taking them and forgetting about them degrades the importance.

  Margaret D. Klein

  Signatures, Forget, Online

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• And if you can't shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade it.

  C.P. Cavafy

  Trying, Shapes, Want

  C. P. Cavafy (2015). “Selected Poems by C.P. Cavafy”, p.24, Princeton University Press

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• The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.

  William Blake

  Art, Aggravation, Vices

  William Blake (1988). “William Blake”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Highly unequal societies are morally defective because they get to be that way through the exploitation by the clever and well-positioned ones of the vulnerabilities and weaknesses of others. The well-off then use their acquired political power to refuse to make sacrifices for others. This system brings us a wonderful range of products and experiences for consumers at the top of the privilege scale, but it also degrades and benumbs the workers at the lower end, as Adam Smith and Marx both said.

  Catherine Wilson

  Clever, Sacrifice, Political

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• There are certain indicia of marriage - certain legal and social consequences and certain legitimacy - which if given to some relationship other than marriage between a man and a woman tend to degrade if not destroy the institution that's been honored over so many thousands of years.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Men, Years, Social

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• I don't think we've got the concept in the West that male desire degrades men. Or that if men become sexually active, they become debased in some way, or slutty. Or lose status.

  Naomi Wolf

  Men, Thinking, Desire

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I mean, if you degrade someone, you isolate them, you control them, you call them names, you demean them. That's a horrible existence for people.

  Phil McGraw

  Mean, Names, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Money degrades all the gods of man and converts them into commodities.

  Karl Marx

  Men, Wealth, Commodity

  Karl Marx (2012). “Selected Essays”, p.58, The Floating Press

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• What is it men love in Genius, but its infinite hope, which degrades all it has done? Genius counts all its miracles poor and short. Its own idea it never executed.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Ideas, Miracle

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1529, Delphi Classics

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• Nothing is gained except by sacrifice.... Do not degrade it to the level of the brutes.... Make yourselves decent men! ... Be chaste and pure! ... There is no other way. Did Christ find any other way?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Jesus, Sacrifice, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.473, Manonmani Publishers

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• When the will loves anything that is below it in dignity, it degrades itself.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Dignity

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• Oh! why was I born with a different face? why was I not born like the rest of my race? when I look,each one starts! when I speak, I offend; then Im silent & passive & lose every friend. Then my verse I dishonour, my pictures despise, my person degrade & my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; all my talents I bury, and dead is my fame. Im either too low or too highly prized; when elate I m envy'd, when meek Im despis'd

  William Blake

  Race, Different Faces, Envy

  William Blake (2000). “The Selected Poems of William Blake”, p.149, Wordsworth Editions

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• If you want to make information stick, it's best to learn it, go away from it for a while, come back to it later, leave it behind again, and once again return to it - to engage with it deeply across time. Our memories naturally degrade, but each time you return to a memory, you reactivate its neural network and help to lock it in.

  Joshua Foer

  Memories, Going Away, Locks

  "How I learned a language in 22 hours" by Joshua Foer, www.theguardian.com. November 9, 2012.

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• You degrade us and then ask why we are degraded. You shut our mouths and ask why we don't speak. You close your colleges and seminaries against us and then ask why we don't know.

  Frederick Douglass

  College, Justice, Diversity

  Frederick Douglass, Philip Sheldon Foner, Yuval Taylor (1999). “Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.4, Chicago Review Press

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• So much of the habitat destruction and pollution is based on the simple principle that we somehow have been given free license over other species to degrade the planet.

  Greg Graffin

  Simple, Principles, Habitat

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• Tshe suffering of adversity does not degrade you but exalts you. Human tribulation teaches you; it does not destroy you. The more we are afflicted in this world, the greater is our assurance for the next. The more we sorrow in the present, ..the greater will be our joy in the future.

  Isidore of Seville

  Sympathy, Adversity, Joy

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• Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Civilization

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

  Simone Weil

  Intelligent, Aggravation, Intelligence

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• Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.

  Walt Whitman

  Aggravation, Community, Done

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Leaves of Grass”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• No one can degrade us except ourselves.

  Booker T. Washington

  Positive, Positivity

  Booker T. Washington, Louis R. Harlan (1981). “The Booker T. Washington Papers”, p.36, University of Illinois Press

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• Don't ever let them pull you down so low as to hate them. (also cited as: I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.)

  Booker T. Washington

  Peace, Hate, Men

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• The birch is used only out of bad temper and weakness, for the birch is a servile punishment which degrades the soul even when it corrects, if indeed it corrects, for its usual effect is to harden.

  Jean-Baptiste de La Salle

  Punishment, Soul, Weakness

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