Somebody told a lie one day. They couched it in language. They made everything Black ugly and evil. Look in your dictionaries… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Imagine if the political elites in our country were forced to endure the same conditions at the airport as business travelers, families,… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Providence has ordained that I should be the greatest liberator of humanity. I am freeing man from the restraints of an intelligence… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Ignorance is degrading only when found in company with great riches — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The sight of one's own heart is degrading; people are not meant to look inward - that's why they've been given bodies,… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
...I will not be a sight gag for anybody. I will not do anything degrading to myself or other fat people. — Darlene Cates Copy Share Image
The real demon is success-the anxieties engendered by this quest are relentless, degrading, corroding. What is worse, there is no end to… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
I want to be indifferent to vengeance. It's degrading. Not having a spirit of vengeance protects me, internally. — Segolene Royal Copy Share Image
“which means I have to lie to her on a daily basis, which is in itself enjoyable but a little degrading at… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
You're never the same. You're degrading, or you're getting better. You don't stay the same. — M. Night Shyamalan Copy Share Image
There is nothing unholy or degrading about sexuality in itself, for by that means men and women join in a process of… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
It was somehow degrading, craving someone so... voraciously - another good calendar word - just because he was physically beautiful. I hadn't… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
“should it occur again, as we walk on, that we find ourselves where others of this crew fall into such petty wrangling… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
We are still barely conscious of how harmful it is to treat children in a degrading manner. Treating them with respect and… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
Alfred Nobel regretted that his invention, dynamite, was converted to degrading use, hence his creation of the Nobel Prize, as the humanist… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Voters are more than Catholics, Protestants or Jews. They make up their minds for many diverse reasons, good and bad. To submit… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
A low-energy policy allows for a wide choice of life-styles and cultures. If, on the other hand, a society opts for high… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
I know what it's like to be growing up, called 'deaf and mute' and 'deaf and dumb.' They're words that are very… — Marlee Matlin Copy Share Image
Michael Bloomberg is a sensible guy. He's just privileged. He's a goddamn billionaire, and he or his family members have never had… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
We live in the digital age and, unfortunately, it’s degrading our music, not improving it It’s not that digital is bad or… — Neil Young Copy Share Image
There can be, therefore, no true education without moral culture, and no true moral culture without Christianity. The very power of the… — Robert Dabney Copy Share Image
The most degrading of human passions is the fear of death. It tears away the restraints and the conventions which alone make… — Gertrude Bell Copy Share Image
I will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Segregation, as even the segregationists know in their hearts, is morally wrong and sinful. If it weren't, the white South would not… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
For them it's out-of-date and outmoded to perform miracles; teaching the people is too like hard work, interpreting the holy scriptures is… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
I believe that almost all important, useful ideas are simple. Peter Whittle has recently put it nicely in an autobiographical essay. "If… — Dennis Lindley Copy Share Image
Somebody told a lie one day. They couched it in language. They made everything Black ugly and evil. Look in your dictionaries… — Martin Luther King, Jr 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
The whole constitution of property on its present tenures, is injurious, and its influence on persons deteriorating and degrading. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What one person sees as degrading and disgusting and bad for women might make some women feel empowered and beautiful and strong. — Sasha Grey Copy Share Image
Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children. — Leon Kass Copy Share Image
C'mon guys; let's not watch it. Porn is degrading to women and degrading to females and...help me out, Monica. — Rachel Green Copy Share Image
The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education. — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
In the morning I had decided that henceforth I only cared for easy loves. It is so degrading to have to persuade… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
Revolution means democracy in today's world, not the enslavement of peoples to the corrupt and degrading horrors of totalitarianism — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Contrary to our culture, the Biblical doctrine of Grace humbles us without degrading us, and elevates us without inflating us. — Kenneth Boa Copy Share Image
“It’s degrading being routinely subjected to a battery of medical tests to ensure I continue to deserve a place in this new… — Siobhan Davis Copy Share Image
Cruelty to men and to the lower animals as well, which would have passed unnoticed a century ago, now shocks the sensibilities… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
