A Quote by Robert Green Ingersoll

Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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Robert Green Ingersoll
American - Lawyer
August 11, 1833 - July 21, 1899

Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.

Boethius

True kindness ennobles the giver

Jocelyn Murray

Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.

George Sand

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

George Eliot

She who only finds her self-esteem In others' admiration, begs an alms; Depends on others for her daily food, And is the very servant of her slaves; Tho' oftentimes, in a fantastic hour, O'er men she may a childish pow'r exert, Which not ennobles but degrades her state.

Joanna Baillie

The decision to give an indicative date for a return is a mistake. It degrades the process. It degrades human life.

David Trimble

If I take you back to the Nineties, our party came up with very bold reforms in the country, economic reforms. They were really revolutionary reforms.

Nawaz Sharif

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

Frank Herbert

Whoever degrades another degrades me.

Walt Whitman

Savor kindness because cruelty is always possible later.

Jenny Holzer

Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your eyes, kindness in your face, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greetings. We are all but His instruments who do our little bit and pass by. I believe that the way in which an act of kindness is done is as important as the action itself.

Mother Teresa

When you're a kid it's people's cruelty that makes you cry, then when you're an adult it's their kindness.

Glen Duncan

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

Walt Whitman

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

Oscar Wilde

An epithet or metaphor drawn from nature ennobles art; an epithet or metaphor drawn from art degrades nature.

Samuel Johnson

The oligarchic character of the modern English commonwealth does not rest, like many oligarchies, on the cruelty of the rich to the poor. It does not even rest on the kindness of the rich to the poor. It rests on the perennial and unfailing kindness of the poor to the rich.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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