Whoever degrades another degrades me.

Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.

— Walt Whitman

Money degrades all the gods of man and converts them into commodities.

— Karl Marx

Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest.

— Henry David Thoreau

Servitude degrades people to such a point that they come to like it.

— Luc de Clapiers

... one pets what one degrades; and one has to support what one has enfeebled

— Phyllis Bottome

One degrades oneself sometimes in the effort not to be lonely.

— John Fowles

If you would rise, shun luxury, for luxury lowers and degrades.

— Saint John Chrysostom

It is not true that sex degrades women... if it is any good.

— Steve Coogan

“It’s only through the degradation of the soul that you can know who you really are; when all else is stripped away, leaving you…

— Dianna Hardy

Man cannot degrade woman without himself falling into degradation; he cannot elevate her without at the same time elevating himself.

— Alexander Walker

Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Such poverty as we have today in all our great cities degrades the poor, and infects with its degradation the whole neighborhood in which…

— George Bernard Shaw

Slave power crushes freedom of speech and of opinion. Slave power degrades labor. Slave power is arrogant, is jealous and intrusive, is cruel, is…

— Elizabeth Van Lew

As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.

— Annie Dillard