#degrade

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

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Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior. ↗

— Boethius

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The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

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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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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

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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

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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

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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 Norman

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Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine. ↗

— Gilbert Ryle

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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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