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Letter "A" » abasement
«The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille»
Author: Karl Marx
(Philosopher)
| About:
Christianity,
Religion
| Keywords:
abasement, contempt, cowardice, humility, preach, social, submission, submissions, The Social
«ABASEMENT, n. A decent and customary mental attitude in the presence of wealth of power. Peculiarly appropriate in an employee when addressing an employer.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
abasement, addressing, appropriate, customary, decent, employee, employer, peculiarly
«There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of law and respectability in a desperate struggle, waged partly by cunning and partly by violence, at once sick and ferocious, in which it attacks the prevailing social order with the pin-pricks of vice and the hammer-blows of crime.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
abasement, ferocious, hammer, join forces, pin, pricks, rebels, respectability, social order, The Pin, waged
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