“ Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority. ”
- Mary Wollstonecraft- Copy
- 2.2K
“ You degrade us and then ask why we are degraded. You shut our mouths and ask why we don't speak. You close your colleges and seminaries against us and then ask why we don't know. ”
- Frederick Douglas- Copy
- 2.2K
“ In the whole world no poor devil is lynched, no wretch is tortured, in whom I too am not degraded and murdered. ”
- Aime Cesaire- Copy
- 2.5K
“ The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- Copy
- 411
“ The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation. ”
- Simone Weil- Copy
- 1.8K
“ By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit as a robber. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
- 1.4K
“ But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
- 2.8K
“ A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
- 614
“ I have urged on woman independence of man, not that I do not think the sexes mutually needed by one another, but because in woman this fact has led to an excessive devotion, which has cooled love, degraded marriage and prevented her sex from being what it should be to itself or the other… ”
- Margaret Witter Fuller- Copy
- 634
“ The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher inspiration… Following Paul, we have turned the goodness of love into a fiend and degraded the crowning impulse of our being into a capital sin. ”
- Frank Harris- Copy
- 683
“ The source and cause of this need for reaction can be attributed to white contempt and neglect. The historical contempt that the white race held for the Negroes has created a group of rootless degraded people. ”
- Andrew Goodman- Copy
- 3.8K
“ The overall picture, as the boys say, is of a degraded community whose idealism even is largely fake. The pretentiousness, the bogus enthusiasm, the constant drinking, the incessant squabbling over money, the all-pervasive agent, the strutting of the big shots the constant fear of losing all this fairy gold and being the nothing they have never ceased to be, the snide tricks, the whole damn mess is out of this world. ”
- Raymond Chandler- Copy
- 1.3K
“ As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
- 2.2K
- 1