The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
The chaste severity of the fathers in whatever related to the commerce of the two sexes flowed from the same principle -- their abhorrence of every enjoyment which might gratify the sensual and degrade the spiritual nature of man. It was their favourite opinion, that if Adam had preserved his obedience to the Creator, he would have lived for ever in a state of virgin purity, and that some harmless mode of vegetation might have peopled paradise with a race of innocent and immortal beings.
No one can degrade us except ourselves.
We're going to achieve our goal. We are going to degrade and ultimately defeat ISIL.
We're not locked in to these conditions that degrade the environment, and jeopardize the future of our children.
Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few.
The camera may do justice to laughter, but must degrade sorrow.
The bare bones tools for a cyber-attack are to identify a vulnerability in the system you want to gain access to or you want to subvert or you want to deny, destroy, or degrade, and then to exploit it, which means to send codes, deliver code to that system somehow and get that code to that vulnerability, to that crack in their wall, jam it in there, and then have it execute.
We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not so as to degrade other countries.
Degrade and ultimately destroy ISIL
When the will loves anything that is below it in dignity, it degrades itself.
Far better for a man that he had never been born than that he should degrade a pulpit into a show box to exhibit himself in.
A religion can no more afford to degrade its Devil than to degrade its God.
To get rid of predestination we have been willing to degrade our God into a godling.
Don't ever let them pull you down so low as to hate them. (also cited as: I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. )
History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active.
. . . one pets what one degrades; and one has to support what one has enfeebled
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
My meaning is, that no man can expect his children to respect what he degrades.
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
