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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
John Stuart Mill

War, Feeling, Nothing

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
George Orwell

Human, Him, Joke

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
Benjamin Disraeli

Democracy, Weary, Statesmen

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

Faith, Reality, Made

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

Women, Men, Sex

I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded.
Simone Weil

Thought, Christian, Cannot

The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.
Gustave Flaubert

Humanity, Advances

I think all women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols. That's what our purpose is in this business. You're merchandised, you're a product. You're sold and it's based on sex. But that's okay. I think women should be empowered by that, not degraded.
Megan Fox

Women, Business, Sex

Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.
Mary Wollstonecraft

Women, Freedom, Struggle

Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it.
Benjamin Carson

Marriage, Made, Sacred

When I went to school, you had to take art, you had to play an instrument. You had to play an instrument. But it's all degraded since then. I do not know what kind of nation we are that is cutting art, music, and gym out of the public-school curriculum.
Spike Lee

Music, Art, School

What I'd really like to write is a romantic comedy. This is my favorite kind of movie. I feel almost embarrassed revealing this, because the genre has been so degraded in the past twenty years that saying you like romantic comedies is essentially an admission of mild stupidity.
Mindy Kaling

Romantic, Past, Stupidity

When you think of all the conflicts we have - whether those conflicts are local, whether they are regional or global - these conflicts are often over the management, the distribution of resources. If these resources are very valuable, if these resources are scarce, if these resources are degraded, there is going to be competition.
Wangari Maathai

Often, Whether, Valuable

When resources are degraded, we start competing for them, whether it is at the local level in Kenya, where we had tribal clashes over land and water, or at the global level, where we are fighting over water, oil, and minerals. So one way to promote peace is to promote sustainable management and equitable distribution of resources.
Wangari Maathai

Peace, Fighting, Start

Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings.
Henry Mayhew

Women, Lost, After

Somehow Photoshop and the ease with which one can produce an image has degraded the quality of photography in general.
Elliott Erwitt

Quality, General, Image

So many people have won Emmys, so many people have won multiple Emmys that I think it's a degraded award.
Tony Randall

Won, Award, Multiple

Business is a subset of the environment, not the other way around. You can't have a healthy economy, you can't have a healthy anything in a degraded environment.
Peter Coyote

Business, Around, Healthy

Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine.
Gilbert Ryle

Ghost, Machine, Denied

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

Love, Jesus, Two

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