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«However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.»
Author: Jeanette Winterson
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«Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage. That is all true. But it is only fair, too, to let them know that the garments of the deity are filthy and that some of her influences debase and befoul a people.»
Author: Rebecca Harding Davis
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«Every reiteration of the idea that nothing matters debases the human spirit»
«Manners are of more importance than laws... Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
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«It's the whole Nietzche philosophy of you are your own God. That's why I debase myself in the concerts and tell people to spit on me. I'm saying to them 'You are no different from me'.»
Author: Marilyn Manson
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«Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?»
Author: Patrick Henry
(Lawyer)
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«If your wish is fulfilled, you revere Me; if it is not, you revile Me. That is how Desire debases you.»
Author: Atharva Veda
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«Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
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«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.»
«O Man! Thou feeble tenant of an hour, Debased by slavery, or corrupt by power; Who knows thee well must quit thee with disgust, Degraded mass of animated dust! Thy love is lust, thy friendship all a cheat, Thy smiles hypocrisy, thy word deceit! By n»
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