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  • An elite class that is free to operate without limits - whether limits imposed by the rule of law or fear of the responses from those harmed by their behavior - is an elite class that will plunder, degrade, and cheat at will, and act endlessly to fortify its own power.

    Law   Class   Limits  
  • 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.

  • Family members have a personal stake in honoring and mourning their dead and objecting to unwarranted public exploitation that, by intruding upon their own grief, tends to degrade the rites and respect they seek to accord to the deceased person who was once their own.

  • Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title. The thing is perfectly harmless in itself, but it marks a sort of foppery in the human character, which degrades it.

    Thomas Paine (2012). “Rights of Man”, p.50, Courier Corporation
  • I mean, if you degrade someone, you isolate them, you control them, you call them names, you demean them. That's a horrible existence for people.

    Mean   Names   People  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Often men's impulses to coerce and degrade women seem to express not a confident assumption of dominance but a desire to retaliate for feelings of rejection, humiliation, and impotence: as many men see it, they need women sexually more than women need them, an intolerable balance of power.

    Ellen Willis (2012). “No More Nice Girls: Countercultural Essays”, p.33, U of Minnesota Press
  • Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with a purpose for which it was not made for, and in this way we may degrade it.

  • If you want to make information stick, it's best to learn it, go away from it for a while, come back to it later, leave it behind again, and once again return to it - to engage with it deeply across time. Our memories naturally degrade, but each time you return to a memory, you reactivate its neural network and help to lock it in.

    "How I learned a language in 22 hours" by Joshua Foer, www.theguardian.com. November 9, 2012.
  • The moment anyone tries to demean or degrade you in any way, you have to know how great you are. Nobody would bother to beat you down if you were not a threat.

  • But as the cerebellum degrades with age, so does the quality of memories. The memories are there, but they're not as good.

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

  • Tyranny brings ignorance and brutality with it. It degrades men from their just rank into the class of brutes; it damps their spirits; it suppresses art; it extinguishes every spark of noble ardor and generosity in the breasts of those who are enslaved by it; it makes naturally strong and great minds feeble and little, and triumphs over the ruins of virtue and humanity.

    Art   Strong   Ignorance  
  • My primary object is to defend and advance a principle in which I see the only possible relief from much that enthralls and degrades and distorts, turning light to darkness and good to evil, rather than to gage a philosopher or weigh a philosophy. Yet the examination I propose must lead to a decisive judgment upon both.

    Philosophy   Light   Evil  
    Henry George (2014). “A Perplexed Philosopher: Being an Examination of Mr. Herbert Spencer's Various Utterances on the Land Question, with Some Incidental Reference to His Synthetic Philosophy”, p.6, epubli
  • In many rural areas of the world, local communities use kerosene for indoor lighting, which leads to asthma, poor quality of light, and the desperate cycle of oil-based products that continually degrade the environment.

  • The enormous expectation having to do with sexual love and the shame involved in this expectation degrades all a woman's perspectives from the start.

  • Highly unequal societies are morally defective because they get to be that way through the exploitation by the clever and well-positioned ones of the vulnerabilities and weaknesses of others. The well-off then use their acquired political power to refuse to make sacrifices for others. This system brings us a wonderful range of products and experiences for consumers at the top of the privilege scale, but it also degrades and benumbs the workers at the lower end, as Adam Smith and Marx both said.

    Source: www.3ammagazine.com
  • A religion can no more afford to degrade its Devil than to degrade its God.

    Havelock Ellis (1915). “Impressions and comments”
  • The decision to give an indicative date for a return is a mistake. It degrades the process. It degrades human life.

  • No matter how many plots we uncover and disrupt, no matter how many terrorist organizations we degrade or destroy, another individual or group will rise to take their place.

  • The bare bones tools for a cyber-attack are to identify a vulnerability in the system you want to gain access to or you want to subvert or you want to deny, destroy, or degrade, and then to exploit it, which means to send codes, deliver code to that system somehow and get that code to that vulnerability, to that crack in their wall, jam it in there, and then have it execute.

    "Exclusive: Edward Snowden on Cyber Warfare". Interview with James Bamford and Tim De Chant, www.pbs.org. January 8, 2015.
  • Does virtual intimacy degrade our experience of the other kind and, indeed, of all encounters, of any kind?

    Encounters   Doe   Kind  
    Sherry Turkle (2011). “Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other”, p.12, Basic Books
  • Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles.

    Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4249, Library of Alexandria
  • Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.

    Speech on the twenty-fourth anniversary of emancipation in the District of Columbia,Washington, D.C., Apr. 1886
  • A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.

  • Biodiversity is the totality of all inherited variation in the life forms of Earth, of which we are one species. We study and save it to our great benefit. We ignore and degrade it to our great peril.

  • 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.

    Sex   Women   Thinking  
    A Vindication of the Rights of Woman ch. 4 (1792)
  • The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.

    Art   Aggravation   Vices  
    William Blake (1988). “William Blake”, Oxford University Press, USA
  • And if you can't shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade it.

    Trying   Shapes   Want  
    C. P. Cavafy (2015). “Selected Poems by C.P. Cavafy”, p.24, Princeton University Press
  • 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?

    Real   Men   Example  
    "Reflections on the Guillotine". Book by Albert Camus, 1957.
  • What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant well-being, and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.

    John Ruskin (19??). “Works”
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