#degrade

The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants. ↗

— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

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Women have the right to say: this is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades. ↗

— Tillie Olsen

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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

#also #civic #corporations #corrupt #culture

AT&T will not block access to the public Internet or degrade service, period. ↗

— Edward Whitacre, Jr.

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But no one could say he hadn't gotten even. He could not count the field women whom he had sexually degraded and demoralized and in whom he had left his seed so their bastard children would be a daily visual reminder of what a plantation white man could do to a plantation black woman whenever he wanted, nor could he count the black men whom he had made fear his blackjack as they would fear Satan himself, making each of them a lifetime enemy of all white people. ↗

— James Lee Burke

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Even among the married, sexual satisfaction must not be sought in a way which disregards man's character as a person and degrades him to the animal level. ↗

— Francis Arinze

#animal #character #degrades #disregards #even

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. ↗

— Aristotle

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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

#degrade #destroy #disrupt #group #how

A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion. ↗

— Hugo Black

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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

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