In such a case, to attempt to reduce all to one standard is absurd in itself and cannot be done but upon the principle of power, which debases the people and renders them unhappy till all dignity of character is put away.
It is the selling of that which darkens the understanding, sears the conscience, pollutes the affections, and debases all the powers of man.
There is nothing else that degrades and debases man like it--nothing so mean that a drunkard will not stoop to it--nothing too base for him to do to obtain his favorite drink.
But at the same time that it annihilates the majesty of power, it debases the dignity of obedience.
Whence it appears, that this pretended virtue only degrades and debases man in his own eyes, deprives him of all energy, and stifles in him every desire of rendering himself useful to society.
It is not gold that complicates, corrupts, and debases life; it is our mercenary spirit.
Nothing is falser than this pretended social axiom; on the contrary, that material prosperity without an offset, diminishes the capacity for happiness and debases character, is a fact which a thousand examples are at hand to prove.
Because religion ever seeks to ennoble a man; and nothing so debases him as revenge.
This may be explained by analogy; despotism debases the oppressed much more than the oppressor: in absolute monarchies the king has often great virtues, but the courtiers are invariably servile.
When a man of style debases himself to practical life, he loses caste and should be punished.
Nothing I believe more debases or pollutes the human mind than faction [party].
If stated in the vernacular of the present day, this doleful opinion of Marshall would read: "Nothing, I believe, more debases or pollutes the human mind than partisan politics.
Servitude, which debasesthe Slave, impoverishes the Master.
This may be explained by analogy; despotism debases the oppressed, much more than the oppressor; in absolute monarchies the king has often great virtues, but the courtiers are invariably servile.
In his rapt gaze, the body and the soul are one, and what debases the one debases the other.
I am every day more pleased with the women here; and, if I was gallant, should be in danger of being a convert to the French stile of gallantry; which certainly debases the mind much less than ours.
My mind revolts at the reverence for foreign authors, which stifles inquiry, restrains investigation, benumbs the vigor of the intellectual faculties, subdues and debases the mind.
There is nothing which, in my opinion, so debases the genius and character of my countrymen as the implicit confidence they place in English authors, and their unhesitating submission to their opinions, their derision, and their frowns.
Despotic power is twice cursed; it debases the ruler and degrades the subject; and Henry's progress to despotism may be connected with the rise of Thomas Cromwell, who looked to the Great Turk as a model for Christian princes.
It emboldens the wicked by impunity, debases the virtuous by servility, delivers up the world to despotism and tyranny, and dissolves all society.
That every concession to Free Trade cuts out of all chance of action some of the faculties of the American national mind, and, so doing, weakens and debases it.
Instead of deterring, transportation tempts to crime; instead of reforming, it debases the bad, and confirms in villainy the already infamous.
The horticulturist-and-florist debases a science into a commerce.
But his knowledge is always better than his taste, and he debases an art into a science.
It made me tremble a little, even at this distance, to think what a sad thing passion is, when way is given to its ungovernable tumults, and how it deforms and debases the noblest minds.
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