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title: "200 Degrade Quotes by 162 authors"
description: "Browse 200 Degrade quotes by 162 authors. Discover the best Degrade sayings and thoughts."
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> [The soul that is within me no man can degrade.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-douglass/the-soul-that-is-within-me-no-man-can-degrade/)

[Frederick Douglass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-douglass/)

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> [“Empty words degrade language.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toba-beta/empty-words-degrade-language/)

[Toba Beta](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/toba-beta/)

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> [“Anything can break at any time.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-magee/anything-can-break-at-any-time/)

[Steven Magee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-magee/)

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> [I'm not going to degrade women, and that's very anti-hip-hop.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andy-mineo/i-m-not-going-to-degrade-women-and-that-s-very-anti-hip-hop/)

[Andy Mineo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andy-mineo/)

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> [Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-bronson-alcott/civilization-degrades-many-in-order-to-exalt-the-few/)

[Amos Bronson Alcott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-bronson-alcott/)

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> [Whoever degrades another degrades me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/whoever-degrades-another-degrades-me/)

[Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walt-whitman/)

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> [No one can degrade us except ourselves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/booker-t-washington/no-one-can-degrade-us-except-ourselves/)

[Booker T. Washington](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/booker-t-washington/)

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> [Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-green-ingersoll/cruelty-hardens-and-degrades-kindness-reforms-and-ennobles/)

[Robert Green Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-green-ingersoll/)

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> [Whilst we want cities as the centres where the best things are found, cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/whilst-we-want-cities-as-the-centres-where-the-best-things-are-found/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/all-authority-is-quite-degrading-it-degrades-those-who-exercise-it/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

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> [wealth means power: the power to subdue, to crush, to exploit, the power to enslave, to outrage, to degrade.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-goldman/wealth-means-power-the-power-to-subdue-to-crush-to-exploit-the-power/)

[Emma Goldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emma-goldman/)

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> [There are two ways to become famous. Degrade yourself or have talent. The first way is easier.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-janetti/there-are-two-ways-to-become-famous-degrade-yourself-or-have-talent/)

Gary Janetti

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> [Servitude degrades people to such a point that they come to like it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/luc-de-clapiers/servitude-degrades-people-to-such-a-point-that-they-come-to-like-it/)

[Luc de Clapiers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/luc-de-clapiers/)

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> [Anger is like an intoxicant; it reduces man and degrades him to the level of an animal.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sathya-sai-baba/anger-is-like-an-intoxicant-it-reduces-man-and-degrades-him-to-the/)

[Sathya Sai Baba](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sathya-sai-baba/)

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> [An epithet or metaphor drawn from nature ennobles art; an epithet or metaphor drawn from art degrades nature.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/an-epithet-or-metaphor-drawn-from-nature-ennobles-art-an-epithet-or/)

[Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/)

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> [This is a core principle of my presidency - if you threaten America, you will find no safe haven.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barack-obama/this-is-a-core-principle-of-my-presidency-if-you-threaten-america-you/)

[Barack Obama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barack-obama/)

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> [Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-blake/then-my-verse-i-dishonor-my-pictures-despise-my-person-degrade-and-my/)

[William Blake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-blake/)

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> [I abhor the word "consumer." Consumers, unlike citizens, have no implicit duties, obligations, or responsibilities to the common good. It's a degrading…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-howard-kunstler/i-abhor-the-word-consumer-consumers-unlike-citizens-have-no-implicit/)

[James Howard Kunstler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-howard-kunstler/)

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> [A big ethical question is what happens after people stop using the device. Does it degrade the environment? Could it have been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/a-big-ethical-question-is-what-happens-after-people-stop-using-the/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [Media corporations have a civic responsibility not only to prevent fraud and financial abuse, but also to not corrupt or degrade our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-w-pickering/media-corporations-have-a-civic-responsibility-not-only-to-prevent/)

[Charles W. Pickering](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-w-pickering/)

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> [If a man is not peaceful and non-violent, whichever religion he belongs to, he is not a man! Violence degrades man to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mehmet-murat-ildan/if-a-man-is-not-peaceful-and-non-violent-whichever-religion-he/)

[Mehmet Murat Ildan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mehmet-murat-ildan/)

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> [No human being can control love, and no one is to blame either for feeling it or for losing it. What alone…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-sand/no-human-being-can-control-love-and-no-one-is-to-blame-either-for/)

[George Sand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-sand/)

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> [Our objective is clear: we will degrade, and ultimately destroy, ISIL through a comprehensive and sustained counter-terrorism strategy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barack-obama/our-objective-is-clear-we-will-degrade-and-ultimately-destroy-isil/)

[Barack Obama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barack-obama/)

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> [...he shall never know how I love him: and that, not because he's handsome, Nelly, but because he is more myself than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-bronte/he-shall-never-know-how-i-love-him-and-that-not-because-he-s-handsome/)

[Emily Bronte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-bronte/)

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> [Such poverty as we have today in all our great cities degrades the poor, and infects with its degradation the whole neighborhood…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-bernard-shaw/such-poverty-as-we-have-today-in-all-our-great-cities-degrades-the/)

[George Bernard Shaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-bernard-shaw/)

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> [Women, who are the prime victims of religion, and perhaps in some, stockholm syndrome effect, often form the most fervent advocates of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-chapman/women-who-are-the-prime-victims-of-religion-and-perhaps-in-some/)

Matthew Chapman

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> [Tyranny brings ignorance and brutality with it. It degrades men from their just rank into the class of brutes; it damps their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-mayhew/tyranny-brings-ignorance-and-brutality-with-it-it-degrades-men-from/)

[Jonathan Mayhew](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-mayhew/)

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> [Today the great gift of God's Creation is exposed to serious dangers and lifestyles which can degrade it. Environmental pollution is making…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/today-the-great-gift-of-god-s-creation-is-exposed-to-serious-dangers/)

[Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-benedict-xvi/)

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> [There are certain indicia of marriage - certain legal and social consequences and certain legitimacy - which if given to some relationship…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dallin-h-oaks/there-are-certain-indicia-of-marriage-certain-legal-and-social/)

[Dallin H. Oaks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dallin-h-oaks/)

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> [Concord is just as idiotic as ever in relation to the spirits and their knockings. Most people here believe in a spiritual…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/concord-is-just-as-idiotic-as-ever-in-relation-to-the-spirits-and/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

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> [An elite class that is free to operate without limits - whether limits imposed by the rule of law or fear of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/glenn-greenwald/an-elite-class-that-is-free-to-operate-without-limits-whether-limits/)

[Glenn Greenwald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/glenn-greenwald/)

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> [The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/luc-de-clapiers/the-maxim-that-men-are-not-to-be-praised-before-their-death-was-2/)

[Luc de Clapiers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/luc-de-clapiers/)

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> [Let us consider the actual, worldly Jew -- not the Sabbath Jew, as Bauer does, but the everyday Jew. ... What is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/let-us-consider-the-actual-worldly-jew-not-the-sabbath-jew-as-bauer/)

[Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/)

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> [It would seem that if despotism were to be established among the democratic nations of our days, it might assume a different…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexis-de-tocqueville/it-would-seem-that-if-despotism-were-to-be-established-among-the-2/)

[Alexis de Tocqueville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/)

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> [“Women, porn assets, whether they know it or not, are objects They are whores. These whores deserve to be dominated and abused.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-hedges/women-porn-assets-whether-they-know-it-or-not-are-objects-they-are/)

[Chris Hedges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-hedges/)

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> [The Church has been and now is unalterably opposed to gambling in any form whatever. It is opposed to any game of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heber-j-grant/the-church-has-been-and-now-is-unalterably-opposed-to-gambling-in-any/)

[Heber J. Grant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/heber-j-grant/)

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> [All modes of government are failures. Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things. Oligarchies…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/all-modes-of-government-are-failures-despotism-is-unjust-to-everybody/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

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> [Hollywood is a showman's paradise. But showmen make nothing; they exploit what someone else has made. The publisher and the play producer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/hollywood-is-a-showman-s-paradise-but-showmen-make-nothing-they/)

[Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/)

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> [Highly unequal societies are morally defective because they get to be that way through the exploitation by the clever and well-positioned ones…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catherine-wilson/highly-unequal-societies-are-morally-defective-because-they-get-to-be/)

[Catherine Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/catherine-wilson/)

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> [Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race - the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/monarchies-aristocracies-and-religions-are-all-based-upon-that-large/)

[Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/)

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                        "text": "Tyranny brings ignorance and brutality with it. It degrades men from their just rank into the class of brutes; it damps their spirits; it suppresses art; it extinguishes every spark of noble ardor and generosity in the breasts of those who are enslaved by it; it makes naturally strong and great minds feeble and little, and triumphs over the ruins of virtue and humanity.",
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                        "text": "Today the great gift of God's Creation is exposed to serious dangers and lifestyles which can degrade it. Environmental pollution is making particularly unsustainable the lives of the poor of the world ... we must pledge ourselves to take care of creation and to share its resources in solidarity.",
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                        "text": "There are certain indicia of marriage - certain legal and social consequences and certain legitimacy - which if given to some relationship other than marriage between a man and a woman tend to degrade if not destroy the institution that's been honored over so many thousands of years.",
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                        "text": "Concord is just as idiotic as ever in relation to the spirits and their knockings. Most people here believe in a spiritual world ... in spirits which the very bullfrogs in our meadows would blackball. Their evil genius is seeing how low it can degrade them. The hooting of owls, the croaking of frogs, is celestial wisdom in comparison.",
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                        "text": "An elite class that is free to operate without limits - whether limits imposed by the rule of law or fear of the responses from those harmed by their behavior - is an elite class that will plunder, degrade, and cheat at will, and act endlessly to fortify its own power.",
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                        "text": "The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers. I, on the contrary, maintain that they ought to be praised in their lifetime if they merit it; but jealousy and calumny, roused against their virtue or their talent, labour to degrade them if any one ventures to bear testimony to them. It is unjust criticism that they should fear to hazard, not sincere praise.",
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                        "text": "Let us consider the actual, worldly Jew -- not the Sabbath Jew, as Bauer does, but the everyday Jew. ... What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money.. Money is the jealous god of Israel, in face of which no other god may exist. Money degrades all the gods of man -- and turns them into commodities. The bill of exchange is the real god of the Jew. His god is only an illusory bill of exchange. The chimerical nationality of the Jew is the nationality of the merchant, of the man of money in general.",
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                        "text": "It would seem that if despotism were to be established among the democratic nations of our days, it might assume a different character; it would be more extensive and more mild; it would degrade men without tormenting them. I do not question that, in an age of instruction and equality like our own, sovereigns might more easily succeed in collecting all political power into their own hands and might interfere more habitually and decidedly with the circle of private interests than any sovereign of antiquity could ever do.",
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                        "text": "“Women, porn assets, whether they know it or not, are objects They are whores. These whores deserve to be dominated and abused. And once men have had their way with them, these whores are to be discarded. Porn glorifies the cruelty and domination of sexual exploitation in the same way popular culture, as Jensen points out, glorifies the domination and cruelty of war. It is the same disease. It is the belief that “because I have the ability to use force and control to make others do as I please, I have the right to use this force and control.” It is the disease of corporate and imperial power. It extinguishes the sacred and the human to worship power, control, force, and pain. It replaces empathy, eros, and compassion with the illusion that we are gods. Porn is the glittering façade, like the casinos and resorts of Las Vegas, like the rest of the fantasy that is America, of a culture seduced by death.”",
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                        "text": "The Church has been and now is unalterably opposed to gambling in any form whatever. It is opposed to any game of chance, occupation, or so-called business, which takes money from the person who may be possessed of it without giving value received in return. It is opposed to all practices the tendency of which is to encourage the spirit of reckless speculation, and particularly to that which tends to degrade or weaken the high moral standard which the members of the Church, and our community at large, have always maintained",
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