But a compassion for that which is not and cannot be useful and lovely, is degrading and futile. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Real progress cannot be measured by money alone. We must ensure that economic growth contributes to our quality of life, rather than… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Nothing should be made by man's labour which is not worth making, or which must be made by labour degrading to the… — William Morris Copy Share Image
Every marriage moves either toward enhancing one another’s glory or toward degrading each other. — Dan B. Allender Copy Share Image
The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Capitalism, and capitalism alone, has rescued the human race from degrading poverty, rampant sickness and early death. — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
Vicious habits are so odious and degrading that they transform the individual who practices them into an incarnate demon. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Enslavement to your own weakness - be it an addiction to alcohol, or to a woman or to fame - it's degrading,… — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share Image
To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There'd be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
When I drive to work, I listen to thuggish rap at a very loud volume, even though the lyrics are degrading to… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
We counsel you, young men, not to pollute your minds with such degrading matter, for the mind through which this filth passes… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
There are a lot of little things about our bodies that we all know, but we never talk about. That's what interests… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
The whole question of evolution seems less momentous than it did, because, unlike the Victorians, we do not feel that to be… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Those who are determined to be 'offended' will discover a provocation somewhere. We cannot possibly adjust enough to please the fanatics, and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics… — Billy Sunday Copy Share Image
Broadsheets can be scathing. But I have respect for broadsheet journalists because they haven't succumbed to degrading themselves, to writing pidgin English… — Peaches Geldof Copy Share Image
Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Our enemies didn't adhere to the Geneva Convention. Many of my comrades were subjected to very cruel, very inhumane and degrading treatment,… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Fear is the original sin. Almost all of the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
I would have to point out in the strongest terms the autocracy of the Liberal structure and the cowardice of its members.… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
The thing we've learned from the last 20 years of counterterrorism is the significant value you get from removing leadership from the… — Michael Morell Copy Share Image
Misery and poverty are so absolutely degrading, and exercise such a paralysing effect over the nature of men, that no class is… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The incurable sufferer is given very little opportunity to be proud of his suffering and to consider it ennobling rather than degrading"… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
But to manipulate men, to propel them toward goals which you-the social reformers-see, but they may not, is to deny their human… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
It's possible to do your best work at your highest level without competing. I'm not anticompetition, but at an individual level, it… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
...he shall never know how I love him: and that, not because he's handsome, Nelly, but because he is more myself than… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
[I] shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes. Indeed, upon second thought, I will not use it then,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I abhor the word "consumer." Consumers, unlike citizens, have no implicit duties, obligations, or responsibilities to the common good. It's a degrading… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
It would be rare to find a woman who hadn't endured some kind of ridicule for stepping out of line. When the… — Clementine Ford Copy Share Image
Parallel to our vast strides in technology, there is a dangerous rise in unemployment, foreclosures, and degrading education. Millions of people are… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
Culture as art is the peak expression of man's creativity, his capacity to break out of nature's narrow bounds, and hence out… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Reverence is an ennobling sentiment; it is felt to be degrading only by the vulgar mind, which would escape the sense of… — Washington Allston Copy Share Image
![“[I] shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes. Indeed, upon second thought, I will not use it then, for it is unchristian, inelegant, and degrading--though to speak truly I do not see how house rent and taxes are going to be discussed worth a cent without it.” quote by Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b42/mark-twain-22_cents_i-shall-never-use-profanity-except-in-di_2142983.jpg)
