Quotes on Aggravation

The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants.

I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.

But if our sex would but well consider and rationally ponder, they will perceive and find that it is neither words nor place that can advance them, but worth and merit.

Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.

If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace.

Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet.

But it will be said that the husband provides for the wife, or in other words, he feeds, clothes and shelters her! I wish I had the power to make every one before me fully realize the degradation contained in that idea.

Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.

The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding.

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose.

If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable.

The idea of bringing someone into the world fills me with horror. I would curse myself if I were a father. A son of mine! Oh no, no, no! May my entire flesh perish and may I transmit to no one the aggravations and the disgrace of existence.