#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

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

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

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

— Boethius

#degrades #either #ennobles #music #our

Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#degrades #done #last #me #returns

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. ↗

— Jacques Lacan

#degrade #efficient #his way #instrument #made

A big ethical question is what happens after people stop using the device. Does it degrade the environment? Could it have been designed so it would actually be good for the environment? ↗

— Donald Norman

#after #been #big #could #degrade

Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine. ↗

— Gilbert Ryle

#degraded #denied #ghost #machine #man