A Quote by Dorothea Dix

Man is not made better by being degraded.

Dorothea Dix

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Being Better Degraded Made Man

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Dorothea Dix
American - Activist
April 4, 1802 - July 17, 1887

Man is not made better by being degraded; he is seldom restrained from crime by harsh measures, except the principle of fear predominates in his character; and then he is never made radically better for its influence.

Dorothea Dix

Man is not made better by being degraded; he is seldom restrained from crime by harsh measures, except the principle of fear predominates in his character, and then he is never made radically better for its influence.

Dorothea Dix

Catholicism has made man stupid, but it has not degraded him; it has introduced as many good and beautiful things as bad things. The United States have simply degraded humanity. Catholicism has done less harm in two thousand years than the United States in two hundred.

Henry de Montherlant

Character is undergoing constant change, for better or for worse--either being elevated on the one hand, or degraded on the other.

Samuel Smiles

The Allwise Creator hath been dishonored by being made the author of fable and the human mind degraded by believing it.

Thomas Paine

Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine. He might, after all, be a sort of animal, namely, a higher mammal. There has yet to be ventured the hazardous leap to the hypothesis that perhaps he is a man.

Gilbert Ryle

The illusion that mechanical progress means human improvement ... alienates us from our own being and our own reality. It is precisely because we are convinced that our life, as such, is better if we have a better car, a better TV set, better toothpaste, etc., that we condemn and destroy our own reality and the reality of our natural resources. Technology was made for man, not man for technology. In losing touch with being and thus with God, we have fallen into a senseless idolatry of production and consumption for their own sakes.

Thomas Merton

Drink never made a man better, but it has made many a man think he was better.

Finley Peter Dunne

A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.

Victor Hugo

Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine.

Gilbert Ryle

My children have made me a better man, which is - in the end, that's probably more important than two more comedy specials or being in better shape.

Jim Gaffigan

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

Samuel Johnson

It is better to be a self-made man,--filled up according to God's original pattern,--than to be half a man, made after some other man's pattern.

J. G. Holland

Everything I am I owe to Sterling Sharpe. He made me a better football player, a better father, and a better man. He was, and always will be, my hero.

Shannon Sharpe

Nelson Mandela, a better man, not a bitter man, made our world a better place in which to live. His life and leadership exemplify the highest courage, dignity, and dedication to human liberation.