#degrade

A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion. ↗

— Hugo Black

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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being. ↗

— Simone Weil

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

— Walt Whitman

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Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

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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

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When resources are degraded, we start competing for them, whether it is at the local level in Kenya, where we had tribal clashes over land and water, or at the global level, where we are fighting over water, oil, and minerals. So one way to promote peace is to promote sustainable management and equitable distribution of resources. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

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

— Carrie P. Snow

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