Quotes with degrades

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• The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest.

  Henry David Thoreau
  American writer (1817 - 1862)
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• Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose.

  Speaking in a debate broadcast by the BBC in 1936

  C. P. Snow
  English novelist (1905 - 1980)
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• As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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• It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

  Susan Sontag
  American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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• Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.

  Amos Bronson Alcott
  American educator and social reformer (1799 - 1888)
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• Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

  Simone Weil
  French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• civilization
• intelligence
• degrades
• deprives
• religion
• pleasure

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