It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.
One degrades oneself sometimes in the effort not to be lonely.
All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.
The whip degrades; a severe father teaches his children to dissemble; their love is pretense, and their obedience a species of self-defense. Fear is the father of lies.
Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few.
Money degrades all the gods of man and converts them into commodities.
The birch is used only out of bad temper and weakness, for the birch is a servile punishment which degrades the soul even when it corrects, if indeed it corrects, for its usual effect is to harden.
War is not the only arena where peace is done to death. Wherever suffering is ignored, there will be the seeds of conflict, for suffering degrades and embitters and enrages.
Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose.
Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.
Men who have lived significant lives are men who never waited: not for money, security, ease, or women. Feel what you want to give most as a gift, to your woman and to the world, and do what you can to give it today. Every moment waited is a moment wasted, and each wasted moment degrades your clarity of purpose.
. . . one pets what one degrades; and one has to support what one has enfeebled
Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.
Would we codify the laws that should reign in households, and whose daily transgression annoys and mortifies us, and degrades our household life, we must adorn every day with sacrifices. Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.
When the will loves anything that is below it in dignity, it degrades itself.
Whoever degrades another degrades me.
Anger is like an intoxicant; it reduces man and degrades him to the level of an animal.
Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.
But as the cerebellum degrades with age, so does the quality of memories. The memories are there, but they're not as good.
