Degrading Quotes

112 Degrading quotes by 99 unique authors

Culture as art is the peak expression of man's creativity, his capacity to break out of nature's narrow bounds, and hence out of the degrading… — Allan Bloom
The real demon is success-the anxieties engendered by this quest are relentless, degrading, corroding. What is worse, there is no end to this escalation of… — Marya Mannes
I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances, to the… — Jane Austen
For them it's out-of-date and outmoded to perform miracles; teaching the people is too like hard work, interpreting the holy scriptures is for schoolmen and… — Desiderius Erasmus
In a general way, if one cannot attribute to the Jew the whole responsibility of the situation, economic, political, and social, by which Algeria is… — Chuck Hagel
The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their captors, and the reports of acts of sexual abuse, physical abuse,… — Ed Markey
The idea of passing one's whole life in moral idleness, and having one's hardest work and duty done by another-whether God or man-is most revolting… — H. P. Blavatsky
Pedagogues: More than any other class of blind leaders of the blind they are responsible for the degrading standardization which now afflicts the American people. — H. L. Mencken
The contemporary tendency in our society is to base our distribution on scarcity, which has vanished, and to compress our abundance into the overfed mouths… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
A low-energy policy allows for a wide choice of life-styles and cultures. If, on the other hand, a society opts for high energy consumption, its… — Ivan Illich
You're never the same. You're degrading, or you're getting better. You don't stay the same. — M. Night Shyamalan
Religion and nationalism, as well as any custom and any belief however absurd and degrading, if it only connects the individual with others, are refuges… — Erich Fromm
Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the… — Oscar Wilde
Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it. — A J Muste
Consider a very natural process, menstruation, and how the association has been created in which this process is dirty, degrading. — Frederick Lenz
Segregation, as even the segregationists know in their hearts, is morally wrong and sinful. If it weren't, the white South would not be haunted as… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The art of politics, under democracy, is simply the art of ringing it. Two branches reveal themselves. There is the art of the demagogue, and… — H. L. Mencken
With my union project in my hand, from town to town, from one end of France to the other, to talk to the workers who… — Flora Tristan
I would have to point out in the strongest terms the autocracy of the Liberal structure and the cowardice of its members. I have never… — Pierre Trudeau
Girls can wear jeans, cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots, 'cause it's okay to be a boy, but for a boy to look… — Charlotte Gainsbourg
The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and… — Thomas Jefferson
Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children. — Leon Kass
The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary… — Margaret Sanger
The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and… — Billy Sunday

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