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Letter "D" » degrade
«The soul that is within me no man can degrade.»
«Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.»
Author: Frederick Douglass
(Abolitionist, Author, Lecturer, Slave)
| About:
Society
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«The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| About:
Jokes
| Keywords:
aim, degrade, degraded, human being, joke, remind
«The argument that capital punishment degrades the state is moonshine, for if that were true then it would degrade the state to send men to war... The state, in truth, is degraded in its very nature: a few butcheries cannot do it any further damage.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
butcheries, butchery, capital, capital punishment, damage, degrade, degraded, degrades, in truth, moonshine, state of nature, The Argument
«What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant ''well-being,'' and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.»
«The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
authorities, bludgeon, bludgeoning, bludgeons, checking, classics, degrade, free expression, preventing, The Classics
«The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.»
Author: William Blake
(Engraver, Mystic, Painter, Poet)
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degrade, Empire, Englishmen, follows, foundation, no more, remove, science, suppose, The Empire, The Foundation, vice, vice versa
«Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.»
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