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Letter "D" » degrading
«I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.»
«Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.»
Author: Daniel J. Boorstin
| Keywords:
celebrity, confuse, dangerously, degrading, depriving, hero worship, models, notoriety
«A mutual and satisfied sexual act is of great benefit to the average woman, the magnetism of it is health giving. When it is not desired on the part of the woman and she gives no response, it should not take place. The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding.»
Author: Margaret Sanger
(Founder)
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certificate, certificates, degrading, desired, finer, notwithstanding, response, sensibility, sexual act, Sexual acts, submission, take place, to the contrary
«Ignorance is degrading only when found in company with great riches»
«The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the lower mind, the lower mind, feeling its fascination without understanding it, and being incapable of rising to it, drags it down to its level by degrading it.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
ages, all ages, conversion, conversions, Conversion of, danger, degrading, drags, fascination, fascinations, high-minded, high and low, high level, incapable, level, lower, lowering, lowers, offered, rising
«(Pedagogues:) More than any other class of blind leaders of the blind they are responsible for the degrading standardization which now afflicts the American people»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
afflicts, American people, degrading, pedagogue, Pedagogues, The Blind
«Authority is quite degrading»
«The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
boisterous, commerce, degrading, despotism, imitate, perpetual, submissions, unremitting
«I sincerely. believe. in the general existence of moral instinct. I think it the brightest gem with which the human character is studded, and the want of it as more degrading than the most hideous of the bodily deformities.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
bodily, brightest, deformities, deformity, degrading, gem, hideous, moral character, sincerely, stud, studded, studs, The General
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