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Degrade and ultimately destroy ISIL -- Barack Obama
There are two ways to become famous. Degrade yourself or have talent. The first way is easier. -- Gary Janetti
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. -- Aristotle
The soul that is within me no man can degrade. -- Frederick Douglass
A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion. -- Hugo Black
AT&T will not block access to the public Internet or degrade service, period. -- Edward Whitacre, Jr.
The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants. -- Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
We are naturally moral beings, but our environments can enhance - or, sadly, degrade - this innate moral sense. -- Paul Bloom
Man cannot degrade woman without himself falling into degradation; he cannot elevate her without at the same time elevating himself. -- Alexander Walker
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded. -- George Orwell
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
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
If I have to degrade myself or do something that I'm not willing to do as a Christian to get something, I'm just not willing to do it. -- Quinton Aaron
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
So much of the habitat destruction and pollution is based on the simple principle that we somehow have been given free license over other species to degrade the planet. -- Greg Graffin
No matter how many plots we uncover and disrupt, no matter how many terrorist organizations we degrade or destroy, another individual or group will rise to take their place. -- Cofer Black
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 A. Norman
Degrade first the Arts if you'd Mankind Degrade. Hire Idiots to Paint with cold light & hot shade: Give high Price for the worst, leave the best in disgrace, And with Labours of Ignorance fill every place. -- William Blake
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
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
If you take a perfectly well-adjusted normal person of any age from anywhere in the country and stick them in L.A., within about a week I do believe that a lot of their values and morals will start to degrade. -- Chris Eigeman
This enzyme, called telomerase, slows the rate at which telomeres degrade, and research indicates that healthy people with longer telomeres have less risk of developing the common illnesses of aging - like heart disease, diabetes, and cancer, which are three big killers today. -- Elizabeth Blackburn
Some global hazards are insidious. They stem from pressure on energy supplies, food, water and other natural resources. And they will be aggravated as the population rises to a projected nine billion by mid-century, and by the effects of climate change. An 'ecological shock' could irreversibly degrade our environment. -- Martin Rees
An elite class that is free to operate without limits - whether limits imposed by the rule of law or fear of the responses from those harmed by their behavior - is an elite class that will plunder, degrade, and cheat at will, and act endlessly to fortify its own power. -- Glenn Greenwald
Some ISPs are blocking all BitTorrent traffic, because BitTorrent can be used to share files in a piratical way. Hollywood lobbying groups are trying to pass laws which would force ISPs to block or degrade BitTorrent traffic, too. Personally, I think this is like closing down freeways because a bank robber could use them to get away. -- Wil Wheaton
Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness. -- Mahatma Gandhi
If you want to make information stick, it's best to learn it, go away from it for a while, come back to it later, leave it behind again, and once again return to it - to engage with it deeply across time. Our memories naturally degrade, but each time you return to a memory, you reactivate its neural network and help to lock it in. -- Joshua Foer
Cities degrade us by magnifying trifles. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No one can degrade us except ourselves. -- Booker T. Washington
Only the degraded want to degrade others. -- Marty Rubin
I don't like to degrade women, but I like pornography. -- Lupe Fiasco
The camera may do justice to laughter, but must degrade sorrow. -- W. H. Auden
People degrade themselves in order to make machines seem smart all the time. -- Jaron Lanier
A religion can no more afford to degrade its Devil than to degrade its God. -- Havelock Ellis
Of the two, I prefer those who render vice lovable to those who degrade virtue. -- Joseph Joubert
We're going to achieve our goal. We are going to degrade and ultimately defeat ISIL. -- Barack Obama
There is only one way to degrade mankind permanently and that is to destroy language. -- Northrop Frye
Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death. -- Rumi
To get rid of predestination we have been willing to degrade our God into a godling. -- B. B. Warfield
I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. -- Booker T. Washington
If we have power to degrade an entire society, then we also have the power to uplift it. -- KRS-One
We degrade God too much, ascribing to him our ideas, in vexation at being unable to understand Him. -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Does virtual intimacy degrade our experience of the other kind and, indeed, of all encounters, of any kind? -- Sherry Turkle
We're not locked in to these conditions that degrade the environment, and jeopardize the future of our children. -- Dennis Kucinich
Our objective is clear: we will degrade, and ultimately destroy, ISIL through a comprehensive and sustained counter-terrorism strategy. -- Barack Obama
Any time you can degrade or take away the top leadership of an organization, it's a positive step forward. -- Marco Rubio
wealth means power: the power to subdue, to crush, to exploit, the power to enslave, to outrage, to degrade. -- Emma Goldman
Whilst we want cities as the centres where the best things are found, cities degrade us by magnifying trifles. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is okay not to like someone, but it is never okay to try and degrade, humiliate, or dehumanize them. -- Cory Booker
I think that sacrifices of animals in the name of religion are barbarous and they degrade the name of religion. -- Jawaharlal Nehru
Color is made to obscure the brightest endowments, to degrade the fairest character, and to check the highest and most praiseworthy aspirations. -- Charles Lenox Remond
We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not so as to degrade other countries. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it. -- Nadine Gordimer
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History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active. -- Abigail Adams
Meet hatred with hatred and you degrade yourself. Meet hatred with love and you not only elevate yourself but also the person who bears you hatred. -- Ralph Waldo Trine
Far better for a man that he had never been born than that he should degrade a pulpit into a show box to exhibit himself in. -- Charles Spurgeon
Know mankind well, don't degrade every man as evil, and don't exalt every man thinking he is good. He who cannot discover himself; cannot discover the world. -- Rumi
It's horrible to be a sex object at any age, but at least when you're an adult you can make the decision if you want to degrade yourself. -- Natalie Portman
As the many male victims of rape in the regime's disgusting jails can testify, this state-run pathology of sexual repression and sexual sadism is not content to degrade women only. -- Christopher Hitchens
What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant well-being, and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money. -- John Ruskin
Scientific and technological "solutions" which poison the environment or degrade the social structure and man himself are of no benefit, no matter how brilliantly conceived or how great their superficial attraction. -- E. F. Schumacher
Sebastian Vettel's brilliant talent will ultimately come forth and he'll continue to show what he's capable of. I will never ever degrade Vettel's ability. Sooner or later, he'll prove anyone so wrong -- Mario Andretti
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 A. Norman
Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade, as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. But a modest assertion of one's own opinion, and a complaisant acquiescence in other people's, preserve dignity. -- Doug Stanhope
If Darwin's theory should be true, it will not degrade man; it will simply raise the whole animal world into dignity, leaving man as far in advance as he is at present -- George Eliot
Don't ever let them pull you down so low as to hate them. (also cited as: I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.) -- Booker T. Washington
The moment anyone tries to demean or degrade you in any way, you have to know how great you are. Nobody would bother to beat you down if you were not a threat. -- Cicely Tyson
How ironical that it is by means of speech that man can degrade himself below the level of dumb creation -- for a chatterbox is truly of a lower category than a dumb creature. -- Soren Kierkegaard
It would degrade our country and our judicial system to permit our courts to be bullied, insulted and humiliated and the orderly progress thwarted and obstructed by defendants brought before them charged with crimes. -- Hugo Black
In many rural areas of the world, local communities use kerosene for indoor lighting, which leads to asthma, poor quality of light, and the desperate cycle of oil-based products that continually degrade the environment. -- Olafur Eliasson
You degrade us and then ask why we are degraded. You shut our mouths and ask why we don't speak. You close your colleges and seminaries against us and then ask why we don't know. -- Frederick Douglass
Nothing is gained except by sacrifice.... Do not degrade it to the level of the brutes.... Make yourselves decent men! ... Be chaste and pure! ... There is no other way. Did Christ find any other way? -- Swami Vivekananda
We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions-bound together by a single unity, the unity of freedom and equality. Whoever seeks to set one nationality against another, seeks to degrade all nationalities. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame. -- William Blake

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