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• The men who made the war were profuse in their praises of the man who kicked the P.M. out of his office and now degrades by his disloyal, dishonest and lying presence the greatest office in the State.

  John Burns

  Lying, War, Men

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• Concord is just as idiotic as ever in relation to the spirits and their knockings. Most people here believe in a spiritual world ... in spirits which the very bullfrogs in our meadows would blackball. Their evil genius is seeing how low it can degrade them. The hooting of owls, the croaking of frogs, is celestial wisdom in comparison.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Believe

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.153, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Such poverty as we have today in all our great cities degrades the poor, and infects with its degradation the whole neighborhood in which they live. And whatever can degrade a neighborhood can degrade a country and a continent and finally the whole civilized world, which is only a large neighborhood.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Country, Cities, Degradation

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• Religion! How it dominates man's mind, how it humiliates and degrades his soul. God is everything, man is nothing, says religion.But out of that nothing God has created a kingdom so despotic, so tyrannical, so cruel, so terribly exacting that naught but gloom and tears and blood have ruled the world since gods began.

  Emma Goldman

  Men, Blood, Soul

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.29, 谷月社

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• No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence. As a right over a man's subsistence is a power over his moral being, so a right over a woman's subsistence enslaves her will, degrades her pride and vitiates her whole moral nature.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Real, Pride, Men

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• Even healthy families need outside sources of moral guidance to keep those tensions from imploding--and this means, among other things, a public philosophy of gender equality and concern for child welfare. When instead the larger culture aggrandizes wife beaters, degrades women or nods approvingly at child slappers, the family gets a little more dangerous for everyone, and so, inevitably, does the larger world.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Children, Philosophy, Mean

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• All modes of government are failures. Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things. Oligarchies are unjust to the many, and ochlocracies are unjust to the few. High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. It has been found out. I must say that it was high time, for all authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and degrades those over whom it is exercised.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mean, Exercise, Government

  "The Soul of Man Under Socialism" (1891)

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• For God to be kept out of the classroom or out of America's public debate by nervous school administrators or overcautious politicians serves no one's interests. That restriction prevents people from drawing on this country's rich and diverse religious heritage for guidance, and it degrades the nation's moral discourse by placing a whole realm of theological reasoning out of bounds. The price of that sort of quarantine, at a time of moral dislocation, is - and has been - far too high.

  Nancy Gibbs

  Christian, Country, Religious

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• Color is made to obscure the brightest endowments, to degrade the fairest character, and to check the highest and most praiseworthy aspirations.

  Charles Lenox Remond

  Character, Color, Obscure

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• Widowhood imposed by religion or custom is an unbearable yoke and defiles the home by secret vice and degrades religion.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Home, Secret, Vices

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.213, Rajpal & Sons

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• We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not so as to degrade other countries.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Country, Freedom, Want

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.245, Courier Corporation

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• It would seem that if despotism were to be established among the democratic nations of our days, it might assume a different character; it would be more extensive and more mild; it would degrade men without tormenting them. I do not question that, in an age of instruction and equality like our own, sovereigns might more easily succeed in collecting all political power into their own hands and might interfere more habitually and decidedly with the circle of private interests than any sovereign of antiquity could ever do.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Character, Men, Hands

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2015). “Democracy in America - Vol. I. and II.”, p.760, Read Books Ltd

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• History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active.

  Abigail Adams

  Men, Hands, Historical

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• These two guys [Donald Trump and Chris Christie] kinds find each other. They love each other. They were playing let`s spend the night together when I turned the TV in the hotel today. I was like oh, my goodness.But it`s like the worst buddy movie. They degrade women. They steal candy from orphans. They mock the disabled. They pick on teachers. It`s frightening to watch.

  Joan Walsh Anglund

  Teacher, Night, Two

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race - the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for safety's or comfort's sake, to stand well in his neighbor's eye. These institutions will always remain, and always flourish, and always oppress you, affront you, and degrade you, because you will always be and remain slaves of minorities. There was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions.

  Mark Twain

  Country, Eye, Heart

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.1338, GENERAL PRESS

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• What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very real one, which degrades men to the point of shame, madness, and murder?

  Albert Camus

  Real, Men, Example

  "Reflections on the Guillotine". Book by Albert Camus, 1957.

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• It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

  Susan Sontag

  Aggravation, World Suffering, Suffering

  "AIDS and Its Metaphors" by Susan Sontagm, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ch. 4, (p. 125), 1989.

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• There is no place in "our Army" for those who sexually harass or intimidate others, or whose use of alcohol or drugs degrades themselves and the soldiers around them.

  Glen E. Morrell

  Army, Alcohol, Drug

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• Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.

  William Blake

  Despair, Talent, Shame

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.491, Pearson Education

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• We're not locked in to these conditions that degrade the environment, and jeopardize the future of our children.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Children, Future, Environment

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• I'm calling for all responsible Americans to fight back and punish Pepsi for using a man who degrades women, who encourages substance abuse, and does all the things that hurt particularly the poor in our society.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Encouragement, Hurt, Drinking

  "Bad rap forces Pepsi to drop Ludacris" by Claire Cozens, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2002.

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• A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and to degrade religion.

  Hugo Black

  Government, Religion, Liberty

  Writing for the court, Engel v. Vitale, 370 U.S. 421, 1962.

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• But to manipulate men, to propel them toward goals which you-the social reformers-see, but they may not, is to deny their human essence, to treat them as objects without wills of their own, and therefore to degrade them.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Freedom, Men, Essence

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• It degrades from the equal rank of Citizens all those whose opinions in Religion do not bend to those of the Legislative authority. Distant as it may be in its present form from the Inquisition, it differs from it only in degree.

  James Madison

  Religion, Atheism, May

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

  Aristotle

  Jobs, Business, Work

  "Politics". Book by Aristotle. Book VIII 1337b.5. "The Politics of Aristotle: Introduction and translation", Clarendon Press, 1885.

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