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And thus we rust Life's iron chain Degraded and alone: And some men curse, and some men weep, And some men make no moan: But God's eternal Laws are kind And break the heart of stone -- Oscar Wilde
The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded. -- Gustave Flaubert
The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians. -- Benjamin Disraeli
In real life, women don't enjoy being degraded and treated like objects/receptacles. -- Jackson Katz
Wealth and vegetation go together, and that exacerbates environmental injustice. The poor bear the burden of degraded environments. -- Natalie Jeremijenko
Somehow Photoshop and the ease with which one can produce an image has degraded the quality of photography in general. -- Elliott Erwitt
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded. -- George Orwell
Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it. -- Benjamin Carson
A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet. -- Victor Hugo
You can manage cancer. You don't have to be degraded by humiliating treatments and protocols. And in some cases, you can be cured of cancer. -- Suzanne Somers
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
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
Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
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
Man is not made better by being degraded; he is seldom restrained from crime by harsh measures, except the principle of fear predominates in his character, and then he is never made radically better for its influence. -- Dorothea Dix
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
Africa is the most weathered continent in the world; 75 percent of its soil has been degraded. You don't just bring that back. I always like to say it's like putting an oxygen mask on a cadaver; it just isn't going to work. -- Howard Graham Buffett
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings. -- Henry Mayhew
I think all women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols. That's what our purpose is in this business. You're merchandised, you're a product. You're sold and it's based on sex. But that's okay. I think women should be empowered by that, not degraded. -- Megan Fox
The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher inspiration... Following Paul, we have turned the goodness of love into a fiend and degraded the crowning impulse of our being into a capital sin. -- Frank Harris
What I'd really like to write is a romantic comedy. This is my favorite kind of movie. I feel almost embarrassed revealing this, because the genre has been so degraded in the past twenty years that saying you like romantic comedies is essentially an admission of mild stupidity. -- Mindy Kaling
When I went to school, you had to take art, you had to play an instrument. You had to play an instrument. But it's all degraded since then. I do not know what kind of nation we are that is cutting art, music, and gym out of the public-school curriculum. -- Spike Lee
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Will biofuel usage require land? Absolutely, but we think the ability to use winter cover crops, degraded land, as well as using sources such as organic waste, sewage, and forest waste means that actual land usage will be limited. Just these sources can replace most of our imported oil by 2030 without touching new land. -- Vinod Khosla
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
The love of Christ reaches to the very depths of earthly misery and woe, or it would not meet the case of the veriest sinner. It also reaches to the throne of the eternal, or man could not he lifted from his degraded condition, and our necessities would not be met, our desires would be unsatisfied. -- Ellen G. White
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
Art degraded, Imagination denied. -- William Blake
Humanity cannot be degraded by humiliation. -- Edmund Burke
Only the degraded want to degrade others. -- Marty Rubin
Man is not made better by being degraded. -- Dorothea Dix
I'm an actor, so I love to be degraded! -- Emmy Rossum
When Sir Joshua Reynolds died All Nature was degraded -- William Blake
No woman can become or remain degraded without all women suffering. -- Emily Murphy
Proteins are constantly being degraded. Therefore, simultaneous production of proteins is required. -- Ada Yonath
The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When art becomes merely shock value, our sense of humanity is slowly degraded. -- Roger Scruton
In real life, women dont enjoy being degraded and treated like objects/receptacles. -- Jackson Katz
A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man. -- George Eliot
All our inventions have endowed material forces with intellectual life, and degraded human life into a material force. -- Karl Marx
The revival in religion will be a rhetorical problem - new persuasive words for defaced or degraded ones. -- Thornton Wilder
Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine. -- Gilbert Ryle
It is in vain to look for the elevation of woman so long as she is degraded in marriage. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
It is not possible for minds degraded by a host of trivial concerns to ever rise to anything great. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
So many people have won Emmys, so many people have won multiple Emmys that I think it's a degraded award. -- Tony Randall
I doubt if there is any occupation which is more consistently and unfairly demeaned, degraded, denounced, and deplored than banking. -- William Proxmire
Who besides a degraded rabble would voluntarily present itself to be graded and classified like meat? No wonder school is compulsory. -- John Taylor Gatto
The Allwise Creator hath been dishonored by being made the author of fable and the human mind degraded by believing it. -- Thomas Paine
For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy -- Bertrand Russell
Character is undergoing constant change, for better or for worse--either being elevated on the one hand, or degraded on the other. -- Samuel Smiles
In the whole world no poor devil is lynched, no wretch is tortured, in whom I too am not degraded and murdered. -- Aime Cesaire
Before Israel dies, it must be humiliated and degraded. Allah willing, before they die, they will experience humiliation and degradation every day. -- Khaled Mashal
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The merely political aspect of the land is never very cheering; men are degraded when considered as the members of a political organization. -- Henry David Thoreau
When Sir Joshua Reynolds died All Nature was degraded; The King dropped a tear in the Queen's ear, And all his pictures faded. -- William Blake
Gymnastics has become degraded as the participants have become younger. Once it was a sport of grace for women, never for little girls. -- Vera Caslavska
The day the army of Virginia allows a negro regiment to enter their lines as soldiers they will be degraded, ruined, and disgraced. -- Robert Toombs
..each bloodletting hastens the next, and as the value of human life is degraded and violence becomes tolerated, the unimaginable becomes more conceivable. -- Bill Clinton
Art respects the masses, by standing up to them for what they could be, rather than conforming to them in their degraded state. -- Theodor Adorno
Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it. -- Benjamin Carson
You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Every one is degraded, whether aware of it or not, when other people, without consulting him, take upon themselves unlimited power to regulate his destiny. -- John Stuart Mill
We approach a condition in which we shall be amoral without the capacity to perceive it and degraded without the means to measure our descent. -- Richard M. Weaver
What will we and our daughters suffer if these degraded black men are allowed to have the rights that would make them even worse than our Saxon fathers? -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Business is a subset of the environment, not the other way around. You can't have a healthy economy, you can't have a healthy anything in a degraded environment. -- Peter Coyote
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The global environment crisis is, as we say in Tennessee, real as rain, and I cannot stand the thought of leaving my children with a degraded earth and a diminished future. -- Al Gore
Art, for example, becomes "art therapy." When patients make music, it becomes "music therapy." When the arts are used for "therapy" in this way, they are degraded to a secondary position. -- James Hillman
People are always angry at anyone who chooses very individual standards for his life; because of the extraordinary treatment which that man grants to himself, they feel degraded, like ordinary beings. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
It gradually became clear that the Green Belt Movement's work with communities to repair the degraded environment could not be done effectively without participants embracing a set of core spiritual values. -- Wangari Maathai
All genuinely noble women prefer truth to falsehood. As the Russians with their Czar, they are unwilling to see their idol degraded; they want to be proud of the domination they accept. -- Honore de Balzac
There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an inquisition. One is the system of degraded barbarians, the other of enlightened civilized people. -- Mark Twain
There is something in us, somehow, that, in the most degraded condition, we snatch at a chance to deceive ourselves into a fanciedsuperiority to others, whom we suppose lower in the scale than ourselves. -- Herman Melville
Love, the one supreme, unceasing source of human felicity, the one sole joy which lifts the whole mortal existence into the empyrean, was by it [Christianity] degraded into the mere mechanical action of reproduction. -- Ouida
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
We talk about our military being degraded over time and yet we've had folks who've been a part of Congress who have participated in sequester; who participated in the degrading of this military over time. -- Chris Christie
The Athenians regularly maintained a number of degraded and useless beings at the public expense; and when any calamity, such as plague, drought, or famine, befell the city, they sacrificed two of these outcast scapegoats. -- James G. Frazer

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