Degrading Quotes

112 Degrading quotes by 99 unique authors

By disgracing and degrading the presidency of the United States, by fleeing the White House like a diseased cur, Richard Nixon broke the heart of… — Hunter S. Thompson
A mutual and satisfied sexual act is of great benefit to the average woman, the magnetism of it is health giving. When it is not… — Margaret Sanger
There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the… — Oscar Wilde
Fear is the original sin. Almost all of the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Nothing should be made by man's labour which is not worth making, or which must be made by labour degrading to the makers. — William Morris
What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self. — George Eliot
To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There'd be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god might wish to… — Frank Herbert
The incurable sufferer is given very little opportunity to be proud of his suffering and to consider it ennobling rather than degrading" so that "he… — Viktor E. Frankl
Extreme poverty is not only a condition of unsatisfied material needs. It is often accompanied by a degrading state of powerlessness. — Peter Singer
Girls can wear jeans and cut their hair short and wear shirts and boots because it's okay to be a boy; for girls it's like… — Ian Mcewan
When we consider that women are treated as property it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
It was somehow degrading, craving someone so... voraciously - another good calendar word - just because he was physically beautiful. I hadn't thought that was… — Charlaine Harris
A garter. You’re supposed to take it off and keep it as a memento. K-k-kinda like a trophy for going far sexually with a girl.… — Simone Elkeles
My God died young. Theolatry i found Degrading, and its premises, unsound. No free man needs God; but was I free? — Vladimir Nabokov
If advertising has invaded the judgment of children, it has also forced its way into the family, an insolent usurper of parental function, degrading parents… — Jules Henry
What is your Self? Self is nothing but joy. A joyous person is definitely a person who has got his Self expressing through his joy.… — Nirmala Srivastava
The greatest country, the richest country, is not that which has the most capitalists, monopolists, immense grabbings, vast fortunes, with its sad, sad soil of… — Walt Whitman
Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of… — Daniel J. Boorstin
Parallel to our vast strides in technology, there is a dangerous rise in unemployment, foreclosures, and degrading education. Millions of people are stricken with hopelessness… — Radhanath Swami
The human world is a long way from meeting the needs of the present, and it is borrowing massively from the future - not only… — Donella Meadows
There is hardly a place on Earth where people do not log, pave, spray, drain, flood, graze, fish, plow, burn, drill, spill or dump. There… — Donella Meadows
When I drive to work, I listen to thuggish rap at a very loud volume, even though the lyrics are degrading to women and offend… — Roxane Gay
Political commercials encourage the deceptive, the destructive and the degrading. — John O'Toole
There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very… — Barbara Castle
For tens of millions of people [television] has become habit-forming, brain-softening, taste-degrading. — Louis Kronenberger

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