#degrades

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

Suffering degrades, embitters and enrages. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#suffering

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

— George Sand

#degrades #dispense #hardens #receive #those

The men who made the war were profuse in their praises of the man who kicked the P.M. out of his office and now degrades by his disloyal, dishonest and lying presence the greatest office in the State. ↗

— John Burns

#dishonest #disloyal #greatest #his #kicked

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

— Tillie Olsen

#reality #right #say #surface #women

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

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

— Boethius

#degrades #either #ennobles #music #our

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being. ↗

— Simone Weil

#debases #degrades #entire #human #human being

Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#degrades #done #last #me #returns

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

— Carrie P. Snow

#appeals #choose #degrades #deprives #people