#degrades

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

— Carrie P. Snow

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It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades. ↗

— Susan Sontag

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As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker. ↗

— Annie Dillard

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A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

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This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry? ↗

— Azar Nafisi

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Suffering degrades, embitters and enrages. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

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

— George Sand

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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

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