Man is not made better by being degraded.

Much of the same sort of degraded and filthy talk can still be heard among the orc-minded; dreary and repetitive with hatred and contempt,…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

The fact of the matter is we went after Iraq for oil. And the fact of the matter is that the United States has…

— Dennis Kucinich

You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Somehow Photoshop and the ease with which one can produce an image has degraded the quality of photography in general.

— Elliott Erwitt

It is in vain to look for the elevation of woman so long as she is degraded in marriage.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

As humanity perfects itself, man becomes degraded. When everything is reduced to the mere counter-balancing of economic interests, what room will there be for…

— Gustave Flaubert

There is something in us, somehow, that, in the most degraded condition, we snatch at a chance to deceive ourselves into a fanciedsuperiority to…

— Herman Melville

Every hour I spent on manual work, every hour I was humiliated in England or degraded has helped me because that's the same way…

— Michael Sata

A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.

— Victor Hugo

I'm an actor, so I love to be degraded!

— Emmy Rossum

You degrade us and then ask why we are degraded. You shut our mouths and ask why we don't speak. You close your colleges…

— Frederick Douglass

Art degraded, Imagination denied.

— William Blake

When art becomes merely shock value, our sense of humanity is slowly degraded.

— Roger Scruton

No government can be strong and flourishing while the national character is weak and degraded. A government must flourish and decay with its subjects;…

— Benjamin Robbins Curtis

You can manage cancer. You don't have to be degraded by humiliating treatments and protocols. And in some cases, you can be cured of…

— Suzanne Somers