Quotes of Debasement - somelinesforyou

“ 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

“ The phrase "New World Order" is Bush's baby, even if he shares its popularization with Gorbachev. Forget the Hitler 'new order' root; F.D.R. used the phrase earlier. ”

- William Safire

“ The best mask for demoralization is daring. ”

- Lucan

“ I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ I just think that all of us in this room should have a voice in how the USA is represented. And he don't allow us our voice, that's all I'm saying. ”

- Eddie Vedder

“ Truth is on the side of the oppressed. ”

- Malcolm X

“ Abstinence is a perversion. ”

- Bill Maher

“ A man calumniated is doubly injured — first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it. ”

- Herodotus

“ Isn't Hollywood a dump — in the human sense of the word. A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting gardens of its rich, full of the human spirit at a new low of debasement. ”

- Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“ If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing. ”

- Napoleon Bonaparte

“ An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination. ”

- Voltaire

“ Clever tyrants are never punished. ”

- Voltaire

“ All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree. ”

- James Madison

“ Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science. ”

- Henri Bergson

“ War: A wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization. ”

- Omar N. Bradley
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