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1. The shortcomings inherent in Modern Art (merely) serve to debase the dignity of our society, its customs and traditions, while degrading (higher) culture in general
2. 10 And for a long time there will live on earth those timid, fearful, and hesitant individuals who will prefer thus to secure their religious consolations, even though, in so casting their lot with the religions of authority, they compromise the sovereignty of personality, debase the dignity of self-respect, and utterly surrender the right to participate in that most thrilling and inspiring of all possible human experiences: the personal quest for truth, the exhilaration of facing the perils of intellectual discovery, the determination to explore the realities of personal religious experience, the supreme satisfaction of experiencing the personal triumph of the actual realization of the victory of spiritual faith over intellectual doubt as it is honestly won in the supreme adventure of all human existence -- man seeking God, for himself and as himself, and finding him
3. one of the few acts that debase man below animals
4. The first night that he waited for Nigromanta to come to the shadows of the almond trees it seemed like an eternity, pricked as he was by the needles of uncertainty and clutching in his fist the peso and fifty cents that he had asked Amaranta Úrsula for, not so much because he needed it as to involve her, debase her, prostitute her in his adventure in some way
5. complimented her a bit too lushly and then administered upon her hand a kiss that was debase
6. prospective philosophy; you can use to debase stress
7. (8) Isaiah 57:9 "And you went to the king with ointment, and did increase your perfumes, and did send your messengers far off, and did debase yourself even unto HELL (grave-sheol) (Hell changed to sheol in New King James Version)
8. If there be no Devil and Satan, no 'murderer from the beginning,’ no real 'demons’ to be cast out and conquered, then Jesus Christ proceeded on a false path, and has in this respect done more than any other teacher to debase mankind, and, as Mr
9. Do not by deserting me let my shame become the talk of the gossips in the streets; make not the old age of my parents miserable; for the loyal services they as faithful vassals have ever rendered thine are not deserving of such a return; and if thou thinkest it will debase thy blood to mingle it with mine, reflect that there is little or no nobility in the world that has not travelled the same road, and that in illustrious lineages it is not the woman's blood that is of account; and, moreover, that true nobility consists in virtue, and if thou art wanting in that, refusing me what in justice thou owest me, then even I have higher claims to nobility than thine
10. But your cure must begin somewhere, and put it that a thousand things which debase a population can never be reformed without this particular reform to begin with
11. The central bank must be trusted not to debase the currency, but the history of fiat currencies is full of breaches of that trust
12. It excludes from our waters, ports, and harbors, all their vessels, public and private; it excludes from our country all their products and manufactures; and forbids our citizens to debase and degrade their country by a commercial intercourse which would stain and pollute them with the payment of an ignominious tribute to a foreign nation
13. The moral and patriotic observer will see with pain and mortification that we are about to add to the temptations to increase the stimulus to evasions and violations of the laws, still more to debase and degrade the commercial character of the country
1. This nominal sum, therefore, is necessarily higher when the coin is much debased by clipping and wearing, than when near to its standard value
2. Logic was taught first; ontology came in the second place; pneumatology, comprehending the doctrine concerning the nature of the human soul and of the Deity, in the third; in the fourth followed a debased system of moral philosophy, which was considered as immediately connected with the doctrines of pneumatology, with the immortality of the human soul, and with the rewards and punishments which, from the justice of the Deity, were to be expected in a life to come: a short and superficial system of physics usually concluded the course
3. For example, that the needy are morally elevated while the wealthy are morally debased
4. Frank had no idea how long the attack had lasted, only that when it was over, he was left feeling debased and worthless
5. To have open air homosexual and heterosexual orgies and to spill innocent blood to gain favor from demons is the most debased a nation can become and is calling severe judgment upon themselves
6. In this group were many turbulent individuals whose minds were bent on mischief, while about the fringe of this crowd there circulated those debased men who had been hired to make trouble for Jesus
7. and he raved around the place, debased, his face terrible and grim1
8. And this blind life of theirs is so debased,
9. It was a lanky looking figure, but with a commanding presence that debased the relevance of everything else around it
10. get out; indeed, you are of the debased
11. Li Hongzhi debased and denounced the existing religions and Qigong without restraint
12. And he repeatedly debased and desecrated Lord Buddha and Buddhism
13. debased ourselves by placing value on greed and power to the point
14. to be abused and debased by negresses
15. He hated to have Angellina’s memory debased by having her accident listed as ‘alcohol related’, but he could see no way to prove otherwise
16. Those husbands who are physically and/or verbally abusing their wives in an effort to try and control them with fear are not operating in true love, contrary to what they may be thinking in their warped and debased minds
17. ity is also a quality of those who wish that their Souls are not debased
18. And now here, in Chapter 17, Krishn classifies these worshippers as the most debased, for the only form of reverence
19. Considered less than fully human by ones who considered themselves the most superior examples of humankind, they were ridiculed, debased, turned out of their homes and then hounded across the continent where they’d lived for countless generations
20. when one is exalted, the other is debased
21. Then he walked out of the place, leaving it with his spirit debased, dragging behind him the remnants of his failure and huge defeat
22. They contended that all of this was fulfilled through collusion between Al’lah and the devil against His noble messenger, so that He debased him unjustly, in a way that was unprecedented, without his committing a sin (far be it for Him)
23. She picked out the gloating chortle of some debased practitioner inflicting his ministrations, and she pushed on to land a further distance away, in a widening cavern under an iron-barred grate through which daylight filtered in from above
24. “Angel, we are no longer in control of our destiny: our prestigious beautiful culture is being debased; our revered cultural norms that would preserve our heritage and dignity are completely eroded, our identity is gradually transforming to that of the white man, an alien culture, a strange custom and their own ways of life that satisfies their environment and their own fancy
25. of art is debased to a certain extent, as some of its functions are inverted
26. Because they victimized themselves, abased themselves in public, debased themselves in public, cringed, acted the coward, acted the fool; their host countries tolerated them enough to let them live inside their culture… by acting out this form of public self-degradation and humiliation, they were acting out the necessary signs of cultural submission so they could practice their own cultural superiority in private without being massacred and killed
27. This is a fact most noteworthy, for it has had this effect, that in no place where the Bible in its integrity has been popularly read has the doctrine of evil spirits usurped a disproportionate share of attention, or debased the public mind through the pressure of an overwhelming burden of gloom
28. * There are many who have been accustomed to wield the common dogma as an instrument of immense power over the imaginations of debased sinners, and who are capable of no other spiritual action, who will at once declare 'that Satan rejoices over the proposed change in the Church's faith
29. "Oh!" she replied, "I don't wish to limit his acquirements: still, he has no right to appropriate what is mine, and make it ridiculous to me with his vile mistakes and mispronunciations! Those books, both prose and verse, are consecrated to me by other associations; and I hate to have them debased and profaned in his mouth! Besides, of all, he has selected my favourite pieces that I love the most to repeat, as if out of deliberate malice
30. One American airman, shot down and relentlessly debased by his Japanese captors, described the state of mind that his captivity created: “I was literally becoming a lesser human being
31. This is likely one of the reasons why Japanese soldiers in World War II debased their prisoners with such zeal, seeking to take from them that which was most painful and destructive to lose
32. He looked up at her as she stood there, hand on heart, looked quietly, almost in prince on new-minted gold but a decadent, tired Caesar on copper debased by long a kindly way, that frightened her
33. Instead of working wickedness by night and growing more debased in the assimilating of it by day, she shall take her place with the other Angels
34. ‘Oh!’ she replied, ‘I don’t wish to limit his acquirements: still, he has no right to appropriate what is mine, and make it ridiculous to me with his vile mistakes and mispronunciations! Those books, both prose and verse, are consecrated to me by other associations; and I hate to have them debased and profaned in his mouth! Besides, of all, he has selected my favourite pieces that I love the most to repeat, as if out of deliberate malice
35. Madeleine had set were tangled and broken, the methods were adulterated, the products were debased, confidence was killed; the market diminished, for lack of orders; salaries were reduced, the workshops stood still, bankruptcy arrived
36. Even incomplete, even debased and abused and reduced to the state of a junior revolution like the Revolution of 1830, they nearly always retain sufficient providential lucidity to prevent them from falling amiss
37. Mistrust of government runs high in India, and since gold can’t be debased and can be converted to cash in a hurry, it’s seen as a solid investment
38. He had all the cold, hard, cruel, terrible features of the green warriors, but accentuated and debased by the animal passions to which he had given himself over for many years
39. However much debased he may be, a man exacts instinctively respect for his character as a man
40. Not only is the circle of men, from which the servants of the government and the rich men are chosen, growing all the time smaller and smaller, and more and more debased, but these men themselves no longer ascribe to the positions which they hold their former significance, and frequently, being ashamed of them, to the disadvantage of the cause which they serve, neglect to carry out what by their position they are called upon to do
41. The whole civilized world is a spectator in the discussion of this resolution; and all the civilized nations in the world are and will be anxiously desirous to know, whether the United States of America, after having hitherto, with impunity, suffered all the aggressions of Great Britain, and after having suffered Great Britain, with impunity, to impress thousands of their seamen, and retain them on board of their armed ships and vessels, and compelling them to fight against nations with whom the United States are at peace; after having suffered Great Britain, with impunity, to murder their citizens, and after having suffered Great Britain with impunity to attack their sovereignty, in case of the Chesapeake frigate, will, after all these outrages and hostile acts, tamely, meekly, and patiently, submit and bow down to the lowest degree of debased degradation, and suffer Francis J
42. I have so often debased the true metal of sincerity that anything I say must ring false—that anything I may give cannot be taken
43. In truth, powerful—yet, as to any foreign effect, imbecile—rich, in the goods of fortune, yet wanting that inherent spirit without which a nation is poor indeed; their strength exhausted by struggles for local power; their moral sense debased by low intrigues for personal popularity, or temporary pre-eminence; all their thoughts turned not to the safety of the State, but to the elevation of a chieftain
44. I am cruelly out of spirits at the idea of old England truckling to such a debased and accursed Government as that of the United States
1. Anger depletes the health, debases the mind, and handicaps the spirit teacher of man's soul
1. The system we call public education has long been turned away from an intelligent analysis of the purpose it is to serve, and sunk into sterile and debasing ideology
2. but was only motivated toward debasing objectives,
3. Still, in our culture, we tend to enshrine the intellect while debasing
4. the time it was re-discovered in the Italian Renaissance, Christianity had succeeded in debasing reality
5. , and the Jewish State, that is allowed to brew into destructive jihadism by its despots, explain this phenomenon? Thus, it could be said without any contradiction, that only a religion like Islam and a country like Afghanistan, with madrasaic help from Pakistan, could have produced Taliban that suffered no qualms in debasing their own people in the name of their own faith!
6. One after another, Carton rammed home the facts of the case, the fraudulent registration and voting, the use of the names of dead men to pad the polling lists, the bribery of election officials at the primaries--the whole sordid, debasing story of how Dopey Jack had intimidated and swung one entire district
7. hear, the risk is that this debasing of the nature of art entails a debasing of the individuals
8. This doctrine, plainly as it is taught in the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures, is at once distinguished from the debasing superstitions respecting evil spirits found in heathen systems of mythology and religion, as in China, Ceylon, and India, by this—that it is taught along with the equally clear doctrine of the counteracting agency of good spirits called the angels of God
9. No; the true remedy for a debasing materialism (for I will not admit that Milton’s materialism was debasing) is to be found in the moral rather than in the intellectual realms of thought
10. The gloom of Los Hatos woods was preferable; a life of hardships in the train of a robber band less debasing
11. It was impossible to disentangle one's activity from its debasing contacts
12. How could she have said such a thing! How could she, Ellen’s daughter, with her upbringing, have sat there and listened to such debasing words and then made such a shameless reply? She should have screamed
13. " Alas! the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects
14. A debasing war, in
15. For politicians facing reelection, the choice between debasing the currency, imposing sky-high taxes, or implementing draconian cuts in services is a simple one
16. For a moment my soul was elevated from its debasing and miserable fears to contemplate the divine ideas of liberty and self sacrifice of which these sights were the monuments and the remembrancers
17. Her benefactors abused their position to demand the most debasing return for the nourishment they afforded her
18. It acts neither in an ennobling nor a debasing way, but in an irritating way
19. He does not stop at debasing the character of the people of this country, but he utters a libel against all parties and against the Government itself
20. Sir, have we become so lost to the real independence and sovereignty of the country, that we are prepared to yield to this degrading, debasing, and humiliating badge of vassalage?
21. In view of the debasing effect of slavery in the South, and the communistic element in the North, I am often asked, “What is to be the result of this effort to establish republican institutions on this continent?” I answer, there is no hope but in sanctifying the hearts of the people by the Gospel of Jesus Christ