Responding to violence with violence merely created a destructive spiral that claimed more innocent victims every day, leading to the debasement of mankind.

First, the greatest challenge of our age is the gradual spiritual debasement of human beings brought about by the distancing of the prevailing order from the morality and unity of monotheism.

The Roman Empire ran a persistent trade deficit with India for centuries. Although the resulting outflow of gold caused monetary debasement in the Roman Empire, Indo Roman trade remained the backbone of the global economy.

All these forms of greatness, however, demanded that ordinary Russians accept their debasement and enslavement. Development is not seen as a means of improving people s lives, but as helping Russia prove itself to be superior to everybody else.

Given such systemic debasement of merit, few Chinese citizens believe that they are governed by the best and the brightest. But astonishingly, the myth of a Chinese meritocracy remains very much alive among Westerners who have encountered impressively credentialed officials like Bo.

These fanatics also believe that a return to the gold standard is inevitable as hyperinflation ensues from central banks debasement of paper money. But, given the absence of any conspiracy, falling inflation, and the inability to use gold as a currency, such arguments cannot be sustained.

It is not allowed to present people in a manner which, under the circumstances at hand, may encourage debasement, social exclusion or unfavourable discriminations against them by the public, on the basis of mainly gender, race, nationality, language, religion, ideology, age, illness or disability, sexual orientation or occupation.

And when a sign comes to them, they say, Never will we believe until we are given like that which was given to the messengers of Allah. Allah is most knowing of where He places His message. There will afflict those who committed crimes debasement before Allah and severe punishment for what they used to conspire.

And when a sign comes to them, they say, Never will we believe until we are given like that which was given to the messengers of Allah. Allah is most knowing of where He places His message. There will afflict those who committed crimes debasement before Allah and severe punishment for what they used to conspire.

But if the US does use the inflation tax as a way to reduce the real value of its public debt, the risk of a disorderly collapse of the US dollar would rise significantly. America s foreign creditors would not accept a sharp reduction in their dollar assets real value that debasement of the dollar via inflation and devaluation would entail.