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• When a client is driven to the utmost extremity, it is warmth and food and ease from pain he wants. Peace and justice come afterward. Rain symbolizes mercy and sunlight charity, but rain and sunlight are better than mercy and charity. Otherwise they would degrade the things they symbolize.

  Gene Wolfe

  Pain, Rain, Justice

  Gene Wolfe (2011). “The Citadel of the Autarch: Urth: Book of the New Sun”, p.119, Hachette UK

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• You punk asshole. What was this? A game for you? This is my life’s work you just annihilated and for what? Shits and giggles? Or was this nothing more than a fraternity prank? Please tell me that you didn’t just ruin my integrity to get some kind of drinking points. This is something I’ve been working for since before you were born. How dare you make a mockery of me. I hope to God that one day someone degrades you like this so that you’ll know, just once in your spoiled pompous life, what humiliation feels like! (Tory)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Integrity, Drinking, Games

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.482, Macmillan

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• As the many male victims of rape in the regime's disgusting jails can testify, this state-run pathology of sexual repression and sexual sadism is not content to degrade women only.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Running, Jail, Sadism

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.1619, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• ... motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.

  Frank Herbert

  Attitude, People, Giving

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.62, Penguin

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• Don’t mourn your luck that’s failing now, work gone wrong, your plans all proving deceptive — don’t mourn them uselessly. As one long prepared, and graced with courage, say goodbye to her, the Alexandria that is leaving. Above all, don’t fool yourself, don’t say it was a dream, your ears deceived you: don’t degrade yourself with empty hopes like these.

  C.P. Cavafy

  Goodbye, Dream, Long

  Constantine P. Cavafy, “The God Abandons Anthony”

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• Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade, as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. But a modest assertion of one's own opinion, and a complaisant acquiescence in other people's, preserve dignity.

  Doug Stanhope

  People, Acquiescence, Dignity

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• It is not true that sex degrades women... if it is any good.

  Steve Coogan

  Sex, Ifs

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• Women have the right to say: this is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades.

  Tillie Olsen

  Reality, Aggravation, Surface

  Tillie Olsen (2014). “Silences”, p.45, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• It is not the principled partisan, however obnoxious he may seem to his opponents, who degrades our public debate, but the preening, self-styled statesman who elevates compromise to a first principle.

  Tom DeLay

  Self, Political, Principles

  Farewell Address to House of Representatives, delivered 8 June 2006

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• Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Kindness, Reform, Civility

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4249, Library of Alexandria

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• It's horrible to be a sex object at any age, but at least when you're an adult you can make the decision if you want to degrade yourself.

  Natalie Portman

  Sex, Decision, Age

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Slave power crushes freedom of speech and of opinion. Slave power degrades labor. Slave power is arrogant, is jealous and intrusive, is cruel, is despotic, not only over the slave but over the community, the state.

  Elizabeth Van Lew

  Crush, Freedom, Jealous

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• Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose.

  C.P. Snow

  Aggravation, People, Advertising

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• The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants.

  Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

  Believe, Men, Aggravation

  Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1951). “Oration on the Dignity of Man”

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• Sebastian Vettel's brilliant talent will ultimately come forth and he'll continue to show what he's capable of. I will never ever degrade Vettel's ability. Sooner or later, he'll prove anyone so wrong

  Mario Andretti

  Brilliant, Talent, Vettel

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• The public realm in America has two roles: it is the dwelling place of our civilization and our civic life, and it is the physical manifestation of the common good. When you degrade the public realm, you will automatically degrade the quality of your civic life and the character of all the enactments of your public life and communal life that take place there.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Character, Dwelling Place, Civilization

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

  Boethius

  Aggravation, Behavior, Music Is

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• Contraceptive methods are like putting a premium on vice. It makes men and women reckless... As it is, man has sufficiently degraded woman for his lust, and [contraception] , no matter how well meaning the advocates may be, will still further degrade her.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Lust, May

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• It is okay not to like someone, but it is never okay to try and degrade, humiliate, or dehumanize them.

  Cory Booker

  Trying, Okay, Humiliate

  FaceBook post by Cory Booker from Oct 04, 2016

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• To get rid of predestination we have been willing to degrade our God into a godling.

  B. B. Warfield

  Willing, Has Beens, Predestination

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• Of the two, I prefer those who render vice lovable to those who degrade virtue.

  Joseph Joubert

  Two, Vices, Virtue

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• No human being can control love, and no one is to blame either for feeling it or for losing it. What alone degrades a woman is falsehood.

  George Sand

  Feelings, Losing, Blame

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• ... one pets what one degrades; and one has to support what one has enfeebled

  Phyllis Bottome

  Support, Pet

  Phyllis Bottome (1998). “The Mortal Storm”, p.13, Northwestern University Press

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• Today the great gift of God's Creation is exposed to serious dangers and lifestyles which can degrade it. Environmental pollution is making particularly unsustainable the lives of the poor of the world ... we must pledge ourselves to take care of creation and to share its resources in solidarity.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Environmental, Care, Today

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• He that despairs degrades the Deity, and seems to intimate that He is insufficient, or not just to His word; and in vain hath read the scriptures, the world, and man.

  Owen Feltham

  Men, Despair, Scripture

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