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I'm an actor, so I love to be degraded!
— Emmy Rossum
The revival in religion will be a rhetorical problem - new persuasive words for defaced or degraded ones.
— Thornton Wilder
These have no hope that death will overcome.And so degraded is the life they lead
all look with envy on all other fates. — Dante Alighieri
The aim of the joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
— George Orwell
Only the degraded want to degrade others.
— Marty Rubin
Humanity cannot be degraded by humiliation.
— Edmund Burke
So many people have won Emmys, so many people have won multiple Emmys that I think it's a degraded award.
— Tony Randall
A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
— Victor Hugo
Who besides a degraded rabble would voluntarily present itself to be graded and classified like meat? No wonder school is compulsory.
— John Taylor Gatto
In the whole world no poor devil is lynched, no wretch is tortured, in whom I too am not degraded and murdered.
— Aime Cesaire
All men die in solitude; all values are degraded in a state of misery: that is what Shakespeare tells me
— Eugene Ionesco
It is not possible for minds degraded by a host of trivial concerns to ever rise to anything great.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
— Benjamin Disraeli
The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.
— Gustave Flaubert
He felt useless and degraded, as if he no longer lived for others but for himself alone.
— Bernard Werber
For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy
— Bertrand Russell
Its surface sheened with saft that evaporated out from its crystal shielding in threads that degraded to nothing.
— China Mieville
Somehow Photoshop and the ease with which one can produce an image has degraded the quality of photography in general.
— Elliott Erwitt
The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades.
— Mark Twain
When Sir Joshua Reynolds diedAll Nature was degraded;
The King dropped a tear in the Queen's ear,
And all his pictures faded. — William Blake
I have degraded myself by ever thinking of him as my husband.
— Wilkie Collins
It is in vain to look for the elevation of woman so long as she is degraded in marriage.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I doubt if there is any occupation which is more consistently and unfairly demeaned, degraded, denounced, and deplored than banking.
— William Proxmire
Gymnastics has become degraded as the participants have become younger. Once it was a sport of grace for women, never for little girls.
— Vera Caslavska
The day the army of Virginia allows a negro regiment to enter their lines as soldiers they will be degraded, ruined, and disgraced.
— Robert Toombs
The Allwise Creator hath been dishonored by being made the author of fable and the human mind degraded by believing it.
— Thomas Paine
We approach a condition in which we shall be amoral without the capacity to perceive it and degraded without the means to measure our descent.
— Richard M. Weaver
I thought I wanted to be degraded, but I wanted to be degraded with love. You wanted me to talk during sex and what came out was, "You hate me.
— Fiona Helmsley
But the degradation of the women was avenged in the men and degraded them also, until they sank into the abomination of boy-love.
— Friedrich Engels
Since I'm essentially optimistic, I can't imagine a world in which man is totally decimated or degraded.
— Nelson Algren
Art respects the masses, by confronting them as that which they could be, rather than conforming to them in their degraded state.
— Theodor W. Adorno
This is not a war, this is a test of how far man can be degraded
— Sebastian Faulks
Proteins are constantly being degraded. Therefore, simultaneous production of proteins is required.
— Ada Yonath
Wealth and vegetation go together, and that exacerbates environmental injustice. The poor bear the burden of degraded environments.
— Natalie Jeremijenko
Character is undergoing constant change, for better or for worseeither being elevated on the one hand, or degraded on the other. — Samuel Smiles
A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.
— George Eliot
The merely political aspect of the land is never very cheering; men are degraded when considered as the members of a political organization.
— Henry David Thoreau
The core of my being is the trigger for the choices I make. With each choice, my personality is enhanced or degraded.
— Bidemi Mark-Mordi
Reshape yourself through the power of your will; never let yourself be degraded by self-will.
— Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
Adam & Eve have been degraded, reduplicated forever, photocopies of photocopies, mistakes copied, magnified, augmented.
— Johnny Rich
I had finally learned that it was better to be alone than to be in a relationship that degraded my soul.
— Chrissy Moon
You can manage cancer. You don't have to be degraded by humiliating treatments and protocols. And in some cases, you can be cured of cancer.
— Suzanne Somers
Most of us are degraded in one way or another.
— Ethel Lilian Voynich