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• It is degrading both for man and woman that woman should be called upon or induced to forsake the hearth and shoulder the rifle for the protection of that hearth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Heart, Men, Rifles

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.147, A&C Black

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• I don't think drugs are a problem; I think they're a symptom. As long as Americans are empty, spiritually, emotionally, morally empty, they will need things like the drugs they choose to use. Mankind has wanted to change the way it felt from the beginning anyway. In this country there are even more reasons to want to feel different, to want to feel better, because this is such a neon sewer. This is such a degrading culture. It forces you to play Beethoven to your child in the uterus so that he will get into a better school and a better job and make more money so he can take care of you.

  George Carlin

  Country, Jobs, Children

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• People say that it was degrading for an Olympic champion to run against a horse, but what was I supposed to do? I had four gold medals, but you can't eat four gold medals. There was no television, no big advertising, no endorsements then. Not for a black man, anyway.

  Jesse Owens

  Sports, Running, Horse

  "Owens pierced a myth" by Larry Schwartz, www.espn.com.

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• Who can estimate the misery that has been caused by this infamous doctrine of eternal punishment? Think of the lives it has blighted-of the tears it has caused-of the agony it has produced. Think of the millions who have been driven to insanity by this most terrible of dogmas. This doctrine renters God the basest and most cruel being in the universe. ... There is nothing more degrading than to worship such a god.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Religious, Thinking, Punishment

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• Man, especially in our time, has without hesitation devastated wooded plains and valleys, polluted waters, disfigured the earth's habitat, made the air unbreathable, disturbed the hydro-geological and atmospheric systems, turned luxuriant areas into deserts and undertaken forms of unrestrained industrialization, degrading that 'flower bed'-which is the earth, our dwelling place.

  Pope John Paul II

  Flower, Men, Dwelling

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• The Captains of Industry have always counseled the rest of us "to be realistic." Let us, therefore, be realistic. Is it realistic to assume that the present economy would be just fine if only it would stop poisoning the air and water, or if only it would stop soil erosion, or if only it would stop degrading watersheds and forest ecosystems, or if only it would stop seducing children, or if only it would stop buying politicians, or if only it would give women and favored minorities an equitable share of the loot?

  Wendell Berry

  Children, Air, Ecosystems

  Wendell Berry (2001). “In the Presence of Fear: Three Essays for a Changed World”

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• Capitalism, and capitalism alone, has rescued the human race from degrading poverty, rampant sickness and early death.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Race, Poverty, Sickness

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• Confession of one's guilt purifies and uplifts. Its suppression is degrading and should always be avoided.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Uplifting, Guilt, Purity

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “Collected Works”

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• It's possible to do your best work at your highest level without competing. I'm not anticompetition, but at an individual level, it can be degrading for both sides. And it doesn't have to be that way. I've done pretty well at getting past that sort of thing, and it's a relief not to have the rancor.

  Raymond Pettibon

  Past, Way, Sides

  Interview with John O’Connor, www.believermag.com. December 2004.

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• Please, please, stop referring to yourselves as "consumers." OK? Consumers are different than citizens. Consumers do not have obligations, responsibilities and duties to their fellow human beings. And as long as you're using that word "consumer" in the public discussion, you will be degrading the quality of the discussion we're having. And we're going to continue being clueless going into this very difficult future that we face

  James Howard Kunstler

  Clueless, Responsibility, Long

  Source: www.slate.com

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• If I am told my loving you had to happen because of some Freudian stuff about my childhood, that might be degrading or deflationary, but if I am told it had to happen because you are such a wonderful person that I couldn't possibly resist your charms, or because we are so incredibly compatible, then necessity seems very romantic.

  Nomy Arpaly

  Childhood, Loving You, Wonderful

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I think, year in, year out, Google is starting to get worse instead of better. I think this is happening to a lot of the web companies, is as their demand to increase the payload they deliver in ads increases, they end up degrading and corrupting their own services. And you can see it with Google Maps, you can see it with Google Directions, where somehow Uber is, you know, always one of the options. And it's becoming exactly what they said was what they never wanted, which is a pay-for service where the highest bidder gets the best results.

  Tim Wu

  Thinking, Years, Uber

  Source: www.npr.org

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• All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.

  Oscar Wilde

  Exercise, Authority, Soul Man

  "The Soul of Man Under Socialism" (1891)

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• There isn't a king or a merchant prince in the whole world that I envy, for I always knew I was born to be a child of destiny and that I was never meant to wring my living from detestable, low, degrading, mean and ordinary kinds of business.

  John Cheever

  Kings, Children, Mean

  John Cheever (1973). “The Wapshot Chronicle”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• We talk about our military being degraded over time, and yet we've had folks who've been a part of Congress who have participated in sequester; who participated in the degrading of this military over time.

  Chris Christie

  Military, Congress, Folks

  Chris Christie's remarks during the CNN-Facebook Republican Presidential Second Debate at the Venetian Las Vegas hosted by Wolf Blitzer, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

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• Eighty percent of everything ever built in America has been built in the last 50 years, and most of it is depressing, brutal, ugly, unhealthy, and spiritually degrading.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Depressing, Years, America

  Interview With Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org.

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• When I say that asian women are beautiful it's not a sexual thing. I'm not being degrading, I find them sexually repulsive.

  Doug Stanhope

  Beautiful, Asian, Sexually

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• The overriding thing has to be a love for people. If you don't love people, you don't care if we live in a morally degrading society. Christ is about love, and that's what we want to be about as well.

  Lance Berkman

  People, Care, Want

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• There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one's means of livelihood.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Mean, Anxiety, Human Bondage

  W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.342, Diversion Books

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• The thing we've learned from the last 20 years of counterterrorism is the significant value you get from removing leadership from the battlefield in degrading the organization.

  Michael Morell

  Years, Organization, Lasts

  Source: www.politico.com

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• There are a lot of little things about our bodies that we all know, but we never talk about. That's what interests me. These are practically universal experiences; nobody mentions them! Some of them are disgusting. Some of them are appallingly revolting and degrading even to the most degenerate mind. So let's get started with a couple of them.

  George Carlin

  Couple, Mind, Littles

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• The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.

  Oscar Wilde

  Intellectual, Facts, Truth Is

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.200, Wordsworth Editions

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• I admire actresses who are good to women. I don't like the ones who just don't like women. You can feel it. They're degrading themselves.

  Sandra Bullock

  Actresses, Admire, Feels

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• I believe water will be the defining crisis of our century — from droughts, storms, and floods to degrading water quality. We'll see major conflicts over water and the proliferation of water refugees. We inhabit a water planet, and unless we protect, manage, and restore that resource, the future will be a very different place from the one we imagine today.

  Alexandra Cousteau

  Believe, Water, Storm

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• Alfred Nobel regretted that his invention, dynamite, was converted to degrading use, hence his creation of the Nobel Prize, as the humanist counter to the destructive power of his genius.

  Wole Soyinka

  Genius, Creation, Invention

  Source: ynaija.com

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