#degrade

Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose. ↗

— Carrie P. Snow

#appeals #choose #degrades #deprives #people

As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#degrades #love #pleasure #religion #seeker

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#democracy #into #politicians #statesmen #weary

The soul that is within me no man can degrade. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#man #me #soul #within

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

— Alexander Walker

#degradation #degrade #elevate #elevating #falling

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

#degraded #fact #in fact #manly #men

A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#deed #degrades #demolish #ego #eventually

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

#control #degrade #demean #existence #horrible

This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry? ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#apologists #ask #centuries #culture #degrades

Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it. ↗

— George Sand

#degrades #dispense #hardens #receive #those