#degrade

It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades. ↗

— Susan Sontag

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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

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

#contemplation #degraded #faith #into #made

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

#becoming #cannot #catholic #centuries #christian

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

— George Orwell

#already #being #degrade #degraded #him

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

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

— Tillie Olsen

#reality #right #say #surface #women

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