(3 quotes found)
“Manners are of more importance than laws... Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in.”
Edmund Burke
“Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?”
Patrick Henry
“Every reiteration of the idea that nothing matters debases the human spirit”
David Mamet
