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«War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
decayed, degraded, patriotic, state of war, ugliest
«The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.»
«The overall picture, as the boys say, is of a degraded community whose idealism even is largely fake. The pretentiousness, the bogus enthusiasm, the constant drinking, the incessant squabbling over money, the all-pervasive agent, the strutting of the big shots (and their usually utter incompetence to achieve anything they start out to do), the constant fear of losing all this fairy gold and being the nothing they have never ceased to be, the snide tricks, the whole damn mess is out of this world.»
Author: Raymond Chandler
(Writer)
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«The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
| About:
Politicians
| Keywords:
degraded, Politicians, statesmen, weary
«The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| About:
Jokes
| Keywords:
aim, degrade, degraded, human being, joke, remind
«The argument that capital punishment degrades the state is moonshine, for if that were true then it would degrade the state to send men to war... The state, in truth, is degraded in its very nature: a few butcheries cannot do it any further damage.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
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butcheries, butchery, capital, capital punishment, damage, degrade, degraded, degrades, in truth, moonshine, state of nature, The Argument
«There is no art in turning a goddess into a witch, a virgin into a whore, but the opposite operation, to give dignity to what has been scorned, to make the degraded disireable, that calls for art or for character.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
calls, degraded, dignity, goddess, in operation, operation, opposite, scorned, scorning, The Witches, turning, Virgin, whore, witch, witching
«The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Literature,
Music
| Keywords:
critic, degraded, drama, drama critic, trade, trades
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