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Last updated on December 19, 2024.
All genuinely noble women prefer truth to falsehood. As the Russians with their Czar, they are unwilling to see their idol degraded; they want to be proud of the domination they accept.
Character is undergoing constant change, for better or for worse--either being elevated on the one hand, or degraded on the other.
The revival in religion will be a rhetorical problem - new persuasive words for defaced or degraded ones. — © Thornton Wilder
The revival in religion will be a rhetorical problem - new persuasive words for defaced or degraded ones.
Who besides a degraded rabble would voluntarily present itself to be graded and classified like meat? No wonder school is compulsory.
In the whole world no poor devil is lynched, no wretch is tortured, in whom I too am not degraded and murdered.
Humanity cannot be degraded by humiliation.
You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.
A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.
Before Israel dies, it must be humiliated and degraded. Allah willing, before they die, they will experience humiliation and degradation every day.
There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an inquisition. One is the system of degraded barbarians, the other of enlightened civilized people.
Proteins are constantly being degraded. Therefore, simultaneous production of proteins is required.
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded. — © Ralph Waldo Emerson
The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded.
What will we and our daughters suffer if these degraded black men are allowed to have the rights that would make them even worse than our Saxon fathers?
The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.
In real life, women dont enjoy being degraded and treated like objects/receptacles.
Gymnastics has become degraded as the participants have become younger. Once it was a sport of grace for women, never for little girls.
We approach a condition in which we shall be amoral without the capacity to perceive it and degraded without the means to measure our descent.
People are always angry at anyone who chooses very individual standards for his life; because of the extraordinary treatment which that man grants to himself, they feel degraded, like ordinary beings.
It is not possible for minds degraded by a host of trivial concerns to ever rise to anything great.
The global environment crisis is, as we say in Tennessee, real as rain, and I cannot stand the thought of leaving my children with a degraded earth and a diminished future.
I'm used to seeing women being degraded, slut shamed, harassed for what they look like. Even the most powerful women in the world are measured by their appearance and constantly ridiculed for it.
It is in vain to look for the elevation of woman so long as she is degraded in marriage.
When Sir Joshua Reynolds died All Nature was degraded
No woman can become or remain degraded without all women suffering.
I'm an actor, so I love to be degraded!
Every one is degraded, whether aware of it or not, when other people, without consulting him, take upon themselves unlimited power to regulate his destiny.
Somehow Photoshop and the ease with which one can produce an image has degraded the quality of photography in general.
In real life, women don't enjoy being degraded and treated like objects/receptacles.
We shall convince France and the world, that we are not a degraded people, humiliated under a colonial spirit of fear and a sense of inferiority, fitted to be the miserable instruments of foreign influence, and regardless of national honor, character, and interest.
Wealth and vegetation go together, and that exacerbates environmental injustice. The poor bear the burden of degraded environments.
Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it.
Art respects the masses, by standing up to them for what they could be, rather than conforming to them in their degraded state.
Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.
I doubt if there is any occupation which is more consistently and unfairly demeaned, degraded, denounced, and deplored than banking.
There is something in us, somehow, that, in the most degraded condition, we snatch at a chance to deceive ourselves into a fanciedsuperiority to others, whom we suppose lower in the scale than ourselves.
To claim that theft or adultery or lying are "evil" simply reflects our degraded idea of good-—that it has something to do with respect for property, respectability, and sincerity.
Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine. — © Gilbert Ryle
Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine.
The Athenians regularly maintained a number of degraded and useless beings at the public expense; and when any calamity, such as plague, drought, or famine, befell the city, they sacrificed two of these outcast scapegoats.
You can manage cancer. You don't have to be degraded by humiliating treatments and protocols. And in some cases, you can be cured of cancer.
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
The young [Nazi] movement is in its nature and inner organization anti-parliamentarian; that is, it rejects... a principle of majority rule in which the leader is degraded to the level of mere executant of other people's wills and opinion.
Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.
Art degraded, Imagination denied.
Man is not made better by being degraded.
The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy
The merely political aspect of the land is never very cheering; men are degraded when considered as the members of a political organization. — © Henry David Thoreau
The merely political aspect of the land is never very cheering; men are degraded when considered as the members of a political organization.
I'm not really saddened that [Pussy Riot] ended up in jail, though there is nothing good in that. What saddens me is that they took things to such a level, here, from my point of view, that they degraded the dignity of women.
When art becomes merely shock value, our sense of humanity is slowly degraded.
Love, the one supreme, unceasing source of human felicity, the one sole joy which lifts the whole mortal existence into the empyrean, was by it [Christianity] degraded into the mere mechanical action of reproduction.
The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.
When Sir Joshua Reynolds died All Nature was degraded; The King dropped a tear in the Queen's ear, And all his pictures faded.
The Allwise Creator hath been dishonored by being made the author of fable and the human mind degraded by believing it.
I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded.
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.
Since I'm essentially optimistic, I can't imagine a world in which man is totally decimated or degraded.
It gradually became clear that the Green Belt Movement's work with communities to repair the degraded environment could not be done effectively without participants embracing a set of core spiritual values.
The day the army of Virginia allows a negro regiment to enter their lines as soldiers they will be degraded, ruined, and disgraced.
Under Obama, we have seen the U.S. military - the most exceptional force for peace in the world - degraded, downsized, decimated and demeaned, resulting in massive international instability and potential threats to our homeland.
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