#degrade

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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.


Mary Wollstonecraft


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The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.


George Orwell


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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.


Phil McGraw


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So many people have won Emmys, so many people have won multiple Emmys that I think it's a degraded award.


Tony Randall


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


George Sand


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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


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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


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All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.


Aristotle


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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.


William Blake


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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.


Frederick Douglass


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