#degrade

Suffering degrades, embitters and enrages. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#suffering

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

— George Sand

#degrades #dispense #hardens #receive #those

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

#dishonest #disloyal #greatest #his #kicked

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

— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

#brutes #degrade #even #impious #into

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

— Tillie Olsen

#reality #right #say #surface #women

Media corporations have a civic responsibility not only to prevent fraud and financial abuse, but also to not corrupt or degrade our culture. ↗

— Charles W. Pickering

#also #civic #corporations #corrupt #culture

AT&T will not block access to the public Internet or degrade service, period. ↗

— Edward Whitacre, Jr.

#amp #block #degrade #internet #period

But no one could say he hadn't gotten even. He could not count the field women whom he had sexually degraded and demoralized and in whom he had left his seed so their bastard children would be a daily visual reminder of what a plantation white man could do to a plantation black woman whenever he wanted, nor could he count the black men whom he had made fear his blackjack as they would fear Satan himself, making each of them a lifetime enemy of all white people. ↗

— James Lee Burke

#crime #degrade #fear #hatred #oppression

Even among the married, sexual satisfaction must not be sought in a way which disregards man's character as a person and degrades him to the animal level. ↗

— Francis Arinze

#animal #character #degrades #disregards #even

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. ↗

— Aristotle

#degrade #jobs #mind #paid