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Empty words degrade language. — Toba Beta

The aim of the joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded. — George Orwell

It is not true that sex degrades women ... if it is any good. — Steve Coogan

Only the degraded want to degrade others. — Marty Rubin

To introduce unconverted persons to the church, is to weaken and degrade it; and therefore an apparent gain may be a real loss. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

There are two ways to become famous. Degrade yourself or have talent. The first way is easier. — Gary Janetti

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

Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few. — Amos Bronson Alcott

The Greek knows how to live with his rags: they don't utterly degrade and befoul him as in other countries I have visited. — Henry Miller

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

I don't like to degrade women, but I like pornography. — Lupe Fiasco

We degrade God too much, ascribing to him our ideas, in vexation at being unable to understand Him. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it. — Nadine Gordimer

The camera may do justice to laughter, but must degrade sorrow. — W. H. Auden

We degrade Providence too much by attributing our ideas to it out of annoyance at being unable to understand it. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Words Are The Ones Used To Degrade And Demean Another Human Being — Karlyle Tomms

Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death. — Rumi

Whilst we want cities as the centres where the best things are found, cities degrade us by magnifying trifles. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We're going to achieve our goal. We are going to degrade and ultimately defeat ISIL. — Barack Obama

Servitude degrades people to such a point that they come to like it. — Luc De Clapiers

Degrade and ultimately destroy ISIL — Barack Obama

Anyone so lacking in empathy that he could systematically torment and physically degrade another should not be suffered to live. — Patrick Rothfuss

Wealth means power: the power to subdue, to crush, to exploit, the power to enslave, to outrage, to degrade. — Emma Goldman

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

We are naturally moral beings, but our environments can enhance - or, sadly, degrade - this innate moral sense. — Paul Bloom

A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion. — Hugo Black

To get rid of predestination we have been willing to degrade our God into a godling. — B. B. Warfield

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

No one can degrade us except ourselves. — Booker T. Washington

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

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 Haddon Spurgeon

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle.

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

Inspiration is incompatible with selfish desire. Whoever wants something for himself sets truth aside. Such aims can only degrade work. — Antonin Sertillanges

We're not locked in to these conditions that degrade the environment, and jeopardize the future of our children. — Dennis Kucinich

Any time you can degrade or take away the top leadership of an organization, it's a positive step forward. — Marco Rubio

One pets what one degrades; and one has to support what one has enfeebled — Phyllis Bottome

I will permit no man to narrow & degrade my sould by making me hate him. — Booker T. Washington

And if you can't shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade it ... — Constantine P. Cavafy

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

People degrade themselves in order to make machines seem smart all the time. — Jaron Lanier

Of the two, I prefer those who render vice lovable to those who degrade virtue. — Joseph Joubert

The soul that is within me no man can degrade. — Frederick Douglass

Man cannot degrade woman without himself falling into degradation; he cannot elevate her without at the same time elevating himself. — Alexander Walker

The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants. — Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola

I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. — Booker T. Washington

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

A religion can no more afford to degrade its Devil than to degrade its God. — Havelock Ellis

There is only one way to degrade mankind permanently and that is to destroy language. — Northrop Frye

Our objective is clear: we will degrade, and ultimately destroy, ISIL through a comprehensive and sustained counter-terrorism strategy. — Barack Obama

Never marry a person less educated than you. You, not only degrade yourself but also your kids will suffer whole life. — Himmilicious

Americans, at our best, stand up to bullies and fight those who seek to demean and degrade others. — Cory Booker

My meaning is, that no man can expect his children to respect what he degrades. — Charles Dickens

AT&T will not block access to the public Internet or degrade service, period. — Edward Whitacre Jr.