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«Man cannot degrade woman without himself falling into degradation; he cannot elevate her without at the same time elevating himself»
«I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.»
«A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion.»
«Law and religion are two forces which govern the conduct of men. At times they act as handmaids to each other. At other times they act as check and counter-check. Of the two forces, Law is personal while religion is impersonal. Law being personal it is capable of being unjust and iniquitous. But religion being impersonal, it can be impartial, it is capable of defeating the inequity committed by law. Religion is believed to ennoble man and not degrade him. Hinduism is an exception.»
Author: B. R. Ambedkar
(Politician)
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act as, by law, counter, defeating, degrade, ennoble, ennobles, handmaids, Hinduism, impartial, impersonal, inequities, inequity, iniquitous, unjust
«All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.»
«I did not know the woman soul, that crowning gift of Providence to man, which, if we do not ourselves degrade it, will set an edge to all that is good in us. I did not know how the love of a woman will tinge a man's whole life and every action with unselfishness. I did not know how easy it is to be noble when some one else takes it for granted that one will be so; or how wide and interesting life becomes when viewed by four eyes instead of two.»
«If Darwin's theory should be true, it will not degrade man; it will simply raise the whole animal world into dignity, leaving man as far in advance as he is at present»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
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Dignity,
Mankind,
Theory,
Truth
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Animal World, at present, Darwin, degrade, far left, in advance
«Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race -- the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for safety's or comfort's sake, to stand well in his neighbor's eye. These institutions will always remain, and always flourish, and always oppress you, affront you, and degrade you, because you will always be and remain slaves of minorities. There was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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affront, affronts, aristocracies, defect, degrade, flourish, loyal, monarchies, oppress
«How ironical that it is by means of speech that man can degrade himself below the level of dumb creation -- for a chatterbox is truly of a lower category than a dumb creature.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| Keywords:
category, Category As, chatterbox, degrade, dumb, in the same category, ironical, lower
«How is individual transformation to be achieved? There are some bad habits among individuals such as smoking, drinking liquor, meat eating and gambling. These bad habits not only degrade the individuals but also inflict hardships on their families. These bad habits have to be given up for the individual to manifest his inherent goodness.»
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