Degrade Quotes

94 Degrade quotes by 79 unique authors

Family members have a personal stake in honoring and mourning their dead and objecting to unwarranted public exploitation that, by intruding upon their own grief,… — Anthony Kennedy
I think that sacrifices of animals in the name of religion are barbarous and they degrade the name of religion. — Jawaharlal Nehru
The function of our Government is to insure to all its citizens, now and hereafter, their rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.… — Theodore Roosevelt
Let no one imagine that he will lose anything of human dignity by this voluntary sell-out of his all to his God. He does not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Yet living and dying, honour and dishonour, pain and pleasure, riches and poverty, and so forth are equally the lot of good men and bad.… — Marcus Aurelius
Genius, when employed in works whose tendency it is to demoralize and to degrade us, should be contemplated with abhorrence rather than with admiration; such… — Charles Caleb Colton
Scientific and technological "solutions" which poison the environment or degrade the social structure and man himself are of no benefit, no matter how brilliantly conceived… — E F Schumacher
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized… — Frederick Douglass
The soul that is within me no man can degrade. — Frederick Douglass
If you want to make information stick, it's best to learn it, go away from it for a while, come back to it later, leave… — Joshua Foer
Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with a… — Jacques Lacan
I mean, if you degrade someone, you isolate them, you control them, you call them names, you demean them. That's a horrible existence for people. — Phil McGraw
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded. — George Orwell
So much of the habitat destruction and pollution is based on the simple principle that we somehow have been given free license over other species… — Greg Graffin
The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the… — Oscar Wilde
Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death. — Unknown Author
I've no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven and if the wicked man in there had not brought… — Emily Bronte
I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live… — Oscar Wilde
When a client is driven to the utmost extremity, it is warmth and food and ease from pain he wants. Peace and justice come afterward.… — Gene Wolfe
As the many male victims of rape in the regime's disgusting jails can testify, this state-run pathology of sexual repression and sexual sadism is not… — Christopher Hitchens
Don’t mourn your luck that’s failing now, work gone wrong, your plans all proving deceptive — don’t mourn them uselessly. As one long prepared, and… — Constantine Peter Cavafy
And if you can’t shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade it... — Constantine Peter Cavafy
I love you, I know this must come as something of a surprise, since all I’ve ever done is scorn you and degrade you and… — William Goldman
I love you,” Buttercup said. “I know this must come as something of a surprise, since all I’ve ever done is scorn you and degrade… — William Goldman
Know mankind well, don't degrade every man as evil, and don't exalt every man thinking he is good. He who cannot discover himself; cannot discover… — Unknown Author

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