Best Degraded Quotes
94 Degraded quotes by 69 unique authors
-
And I don't see that popular measures, self-abnegation and democracy have done anything for Man but push him further into the mud. Currently, popularity endorses…
— L. Ron Hubbard
-
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall…
— Henry Mayhew
-
For nearly 2,000 years of Christian civilization, taking the life of an unborn child was regarded as a vile and heinous moral offense which degraded…
— Unknown Author
-
For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy
— Bertrand Russell
-
Language is the dress of thought; and as the noblest mien or most graceful action would be degraded and obscured by a garb appropriated to…
— Samuel Johnson
-
Recycling is more expensive for communities than it needs to be, partly because traditional recycling tries to force materials into more lifetimes than they are…
— William McDonough
-
Slavery as an institution that degraded man to a thing has never died out. In some periods of history it has flourished: many civilizations have…
— Unknown Author
-
By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of…
— Henry David Thoreau
-
Tolerance of Cruelty in any form is a degraded state of mind and soul. When we freely allow the massacre and prolonged torture of defenseless…
— Unknown Author
-
No woman can become or remain degraded without all women suffering.
— Emily Murphy
-
The 1970s was the decade of liberation, of anger at injustice and demands for recognition and rights. But over time, the demand for specific rights…
— Michael Foley
-
The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded. It is a doctrine alike of the oldest and of the newest…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
-
Business is a subset of the environment, not the other way around. You can't have a healthy economy, you can't have a healthy anything in…
— Peter Coyote
-
So many people have won Emmys, so many people have won multiple Emmys that I think it's a degraded award.
— Tony Randall
-
Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle…
— Mary Wollstonecraft
-
Contraceptive methods are like putting a premium on vice. It makes men and women reckless... As it is, man has sufficiently degraded woman for his…
— Mahatma Gandhi
-
There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an inquisition. One is the system of…
— Mark Twain
-
People are always angry at anyone who chooses very individual standards for his life; because of the extraordinary treatment which that man grants to himself,…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
-
Then, we realize that the degraded cocoon we have been hiding in is revolting, and we want to turn up the lights as far as…
— Chogyam Trungpa
-
Sinning persons are just like this boy who fell into the drain. Now, high or low, upgraded or degraded, all are equal. All are equal…
— Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar
-
What are you to do? You are always to remember that you are the child of a Great Father. You must not think that you…
— Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar
-
Somehow Photoshop and the ease with which one can produce an image has degraded the quality of photography in general.
— Elliott Erwitt
-
The divine right of kings may have been a plea for feeble tyrants, but the divine right of government is the keystone of human progress,…
— Benjamin Disraeli
-
I am sure no other civilization, not even the Romans, has showed such a vast proportion of ignominious and degraded nudity, and ugly, squalid dirty…
— D. H. Lawrence
-
Whenever any American's life is taken by another American unnecessarily - whether it is done in the name of the law or in the defiance…
— Robert Kennedy
More Ways to Read Degraded Quotes
Who Wrote These Degraded Quotes
69 authors contributed a total of 94 Degraded Quotes, led by these top contributors: