"The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy……" — Benjamin Disraeli
"The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians."
More Degraded Quotes
- Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be… — Benjamin Carson
- A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man. — George Eliot
- As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many… — Henry David Thoreau
- In the whole world no poor devil is lynched, no wretch is tortured, in whom I too am not degraded… — Aime Cesaire
- You degrade us and then ask why we are degraded. You shut our mouths and ask why we don't speak.… — Frederick Douglass
- Gymnastics has become degraded as the participants have become younger. Once it was a sport of grace for women, never… — Vera Caslavska
- The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic… — John Stuart Mill
- It is due to justice; due to humanity; due to truth; due to the sympathies of our nature; in fine,… — James Madison
- 'I believe in one God and Mohammed the Apostle of God,' is the simple and invariable profession of Islam. The… — Edward Gibbon
- It gradually became clear that the Green Belt Movement's work with communities to repair the degraded environment could not be… — Wangari Maathai
- Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine. — Gilbert Ryle