Maximilien Robespierre (1758–1794) French revolutionary lawyer and politician
Quoting Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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“The aim of the joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.”
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Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman
Upon being forced to leave a train car due to his color, as quoted in Up from Slavery (1901), Ch. VI: "Black Race And Red Race, the penalty of telling the truth, of telling the simple truth, in answer to a series of strange questions", by Booker T. Washington
“With moral degradation goes political degradation.”
Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist
Napoleon the Little (1852), Conclusion, Part First, III
Napoleon the Little (1852)
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Letter to Dr. Theodore Canisius (17 May 1859)
1850s
“The doctrines of grace humble man without degrading him and exalt him without inflating him.”
Charles Hodge (1797–1878) American Presbyterian theologian
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 334.
James Marsters (1962) American actor
Spike's philosophies about life http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/buffy/interviews/marsters/page3.shtml
“He who remains with himself for a long time, degrades.”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
Quien se queda mucho consigo mismo, se envilece.
Voces (1943)
E.M. Forster book Where Angels Fear to Tread
Source: Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905), Ch. 10
Context: This woman was a goddess to the end. For her no love could be degrading: she stood outside all degradation. This episode, which she thought so sordid, and which was so tragic for him, remained supremely beautiful. To such a height was he lifted, that without regret he could now have told her that he was her worshipper too. But what was the use of telling her? For all the wonderful things had happened.
"Thank you," was all that he permitted himself. "Thank you for everything."