Confession of one's guilt purifies and uplifts. Its suppression is degrading and should always be avoided. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The doctrines of grace humble man without degrading him and exalt him without inflating him. — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
By disgracing and degrading the presidency of the United States, by fleeing the White House like a diseased cur, Richard Nixon broke… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
As President, I will end once and for all the use of taxpayer funds to promote the National Endowment for the Arts… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
We talk about our military being degraded over time, and yet we've had folks who've been a part of Congress who have… — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
Eighty percent of everything ever built in America has been built in the last 50 years, and most of it is depressing,… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
I hope degrading people makes you feel so damn good about yourself. Youre the reason why insecure girls are committing suicide. Shame… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What is your Self? Self is nothing but joy. A joyous person is definitely a person who has got his Self expressing… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed. — Christopher Hampton Copy Share Image
The greatest country, the richest country, is not that which has the most capitalists, monopolists, immense grabbings, vast fortunes, with its sad,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
There is hardly a place on Earth where people do not log, pave, spray, drain, flood, graze, fish, plow, burn, drill, spill… — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
“Degrading laughter is a trash compactor and I will not jump in. It’s a self esteem detractor that some call a chiropractor… — Calvin W. Allison Copy Share Image
With my union project in my hand, from town to town, from one end of France to the other, to talk to… — Flora Tristan Copy Share Image
Political correctness is a concept invented by hard-rightwing forces to defend their right to be racist, to treat women in a degrading… — Clare Short Copy Share Image
Only if you have some knowledge of the human sacrifices, the vicious temple rites, the degrading superstitions and customs that were practiced… — Carlton J. H. Hayes Copy Share Image
All nations are degrading and consuming their environment to a point beyond capacity. In the past 15 years in the U.S. we… — Gaylord Nelson Copy Share Image
Girls can wear jeans and cut their hair short and wear shirts and boots because it's okay to be a boy; for… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
All modes of government are failures. Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things. Oligarchies… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The prevailing idea seems to be, that I come to God and ask Him for something that I want, and that I… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
There is not a more disgusting spectacle under the sun than our subserviency to British criticism. It is disgusting, first, because it… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I certainly do not lament the decadence of knight errantry, nor wish to exchange the protection of the laws for that of… — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
Maybe I'm too close to the two Democrats to be against either one. I went to law school with Barack Obama and… — Keith Boykin Copy Share Image
What plethora of material goods can possibly atone for a waking life so humanly belittling, if not degrading, as the push-button tasks… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Poverty is mean and degrading to the human spirit, whereas a life of conscious simplicity can have both a beauty and a… — Duane Elgin Copy Share Image
We just need a strong female perspective, especially in the world now...when the degrading of women has become such a popular thing. — Storm Saulter Copy Share Image
To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will… — Barbara Cartland Copy Share Image
Of all the evils for which man has made himself responsible, none is so degrading, so shocking, or so brutal as his… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Pedagogues: More than any other class of blind leaders of the blind they are responsible for the degrading standardization which now afflicts… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided.… — Barbara Castle Copy Share Image
When we consider that women are treated as property it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Girls can wear jeans and cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots cause it's okay to be a boy. But for… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Religion and nationalism, as well as any custom and any belief however absurd and degrading, if it only connects the individual with… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
My God died young. Theolatry i found Degrading, and its premises, unsound. No free man needs God; but was I free? — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Multi-taskers often think they are like gym rats, bulking up their ability to juggle tasks, when in fact they are like alcoholics,… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
My greatest hope is that we transcend the most fearful thing, which is that we are rapidly degrading the ecological systems on… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
I admire actresses who are good to women. I don't like the ones who just don't like women. You can feel it.… — Sandra Bullock Copy Share Image
If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading… — Keith Henson Copy Share Image