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


Gilbert Ryle


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The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.


Benjamin Disraeli


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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.


Frederick Douglass


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The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.


Simone Weil


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I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded.


Simone Weil


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When you think of all the conflicts we have - whether those conflicts are local, whether they are regional or global - these conflicts are often over the management, the distribution of resources. If these resources are very valuable, if these resources are scarce, if these resources are degraded, there is going to be competition.


Wangari Maathai


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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.


John Stuart Mill


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