#degraded

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

#democracy #into #politicians #statesmen #weary

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

I think all women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols. That's what our purpose is in this business. You're merchandised, you're a product. You're sold and it's based on sex. But that's okay. I think women should be empowered by that, not degraded. ↗

— Megan Fox

#business #degraded #empowered #hollywood #i

What I'd really like to write is a romantic comedy. This is my favorite kind of movie. I feel almost embarrassed revealing this, because the genre has been so degraded in the past twenty years that saying you like romantic comedies is essentially an admission of mild stupidity. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#almost #because #been #comedies #comedy

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

So many people have won Emmys, so many people have won multiple Emmys that I think it's a degraded award. ↗

— Tony Randall

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