Degrading Quotes

112 Degrading quotes by 99 unique authors

More than one-half of the world's major rivers are being seriously depleted and polluted, degrading and poisoning the surrounding ecosystems, thus threatening the health and… — Ismail Serageldin
Regarding factory-farmed animals We owe them a merciful death, and we owe them a merciful life. And when human beings cannot do something humanely, without… — Matthew Scully
I believe that almost all important, useful ideas are simple. Peter Whittle has recently put it nicely in an autobiographical essay. "If a piece of… — Dennis Lindley
There is nothing unholy or degrading about sexuality in itself, for by that means men and women join in a process of creation and in… — Spencer W. Kimball
Nora leaves her husband, not-as the stupid critic would have it-because she is tired of her responsibilities or feels the need of woman's rights, but… — Emma Goldman
You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you'd love to know what it's like, wouldn't you? — Charlotte Gainsbourg
To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading. — Seneca the Younger
In Philadelphia, I inadvertently came upon an edition of Robert Ingersoll's Essays and Lectures. This was an exciting discovery; his atheism confirmed my own belief… — Charlie Chaplin
Somebody told a lie one day. They couched it in language. They made everything Black ugly and evil. Look in your dictionaries and see the… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am liberating man from the degrading chimera known as `conscience'. — Adolf Hitler
Real progress cannot be measured by money alone. We must ensure that economic growth contributes to our quality of life, rather than degrading it — Tony Blair
A modern factory reaches perhaps almost the limit of horror. Everybody in it is constantly harassed and kept on edge by the interference of extraneous… — Simone Weil
I just saw an ad the other day that I couldn't believe. There was this woman-and I think it's degrading to womankind-she was going out… — Leo Buscaglia
The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education. — Jane Rule
Cruelty to men and to the lower animals as well, which would have passed unnoticed a century ago, now shocks the sensibilities and is regarded… — Elihu Root
If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading experience. — Keith Henson
Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people… — Nathan Deal
I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed. — Christopher Hampton
Enslavement to your own weakness - be it an addiction to alcohol, or to a woman or to fame - it's degrading, and it means… — Wojciech Kurtyka
Authority is quite degrading. — Oscar Wilde
Those who are determined to be 'offended' will discover a provocation somewhere. We cannot possibly adjust enough to please the fanatics, and it is degrading… — Christopher Hitchens
We counsel you, young men, not to pollute your minds with such degrading matter, for the mind through which this filth passes is never the… — Ezra Taft Benson
No. I think they're the idiot people and I'm the normal person. But I don't really go to parties where...I don't really have drunk friends.… — Gwyneth Paltrow
The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
War with all its glorification of brute force is essentially a degrading thing. — Mahatma Gandhi

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