#degrades

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

— Carrie P. Snow

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

— Susan Sontag

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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

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