“ Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be. ”
- Jose Ortega y Gasset- Copy
- 180
“ He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
- 2.3K
“ If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy. ”
- Boethius- Copy
- 438
“ In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning. ”
- Jean Baudrillard- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom. ”
- Charles Horton Cooley- Copy
- 394
“ In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking. ”
- James Russell Lowell- Copy
- 3.7K
“ I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her. ”
- Simone Weil- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption, also. ”
- William Gilmore Simms- Copy
- 2K
“ The chance is now given you to end in a day the bondage of centuries, and to rise in one bound from social degradation to the place of common equality with all other varieties of men. ”
- Frederick Douglass- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? ”
- Patrick Henry- Copy
- 90
“ Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck. ”
- Raymond Chandler- Copy
- 2K
“ One is guilty of all abjection that one does not help to relieve. ”
- Jose Marti- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Poverty does not produce unhappiness: It produces degradation. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
- 3.8K
“ One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. ”
- Alice Jones- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
- 2.5K
“ A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves. ”
- Simone Weil- Copy
- 1K
“ Every individual or national degeneration is immediately revealed by a directly proportional degradation in language. ”
- Joseph De Maistre- Copy
- 1.4K
“ I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. ”
- Alice James- Copy
- 3.5K
“ One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real. ”
- Klaus Kinski- Copy
- 2.9K
“ The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation. ”
- Marquis de Sade- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet. ”
- Lewis Mumford- Copy
- 3K
“ We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman. ”
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton- Copy
- 2.8K
“ If your Bible is an argument for the degradation of women, and the abuse by whipping of little children, I advise you to put it away, and use your common sense instead. ”
- Lucy N. Colman- Copy
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