Degrading Quotes: top 64 famous quotes about Degrading

Degrading Quotes & Sayings

Happy to read and share the best inspirational Degrading quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.

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

Every marriage moves either toward enhancing one another's glory or toward degrading each other. — Dan B. Allender

Too many leaders value their popularity, protecting it at all cost, degrading their credibility. — Noel DeJesus

All forced virtue is degrading in it effect. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

There was nothing quite so shaming, so degrading as a marriage that had failed. — Daphne Du Maurier

To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading. — Seneca The Younger

War with all its glorification of brute force is essentially a degrading thing. — Mahatma Gandhi

Ignorance is degrading only when found in company with great riches. — Arthur Schopenhauer

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

You're never the same. You're degrading, or you're getting better. You don't stay the same. — M. Night Shyamalan

The Catholic Church is the only thing which saves a man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age — G.K. Chesterton

There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one's means of livelihood. — W. Somerset Maugham

It's degrading being routinely subjected to a battery of medical tests to ensure I continue to deserve a place in this new world. — Siobhan Davis

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

Never ask a ninja if she can jump - it's degrading. — Rachel Van Dyken

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 like a girl is degrading. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

They will not force us
They will stop degrading us
They will not control us
We will be victorious — Muse

It's an incredible paradox that being a doctor is so degrading and yet is so valued by society — Samuel Shem

She couldn't get that the fucking itself wasn't degrading. The intentional degradation was degrading. And hot. — C.D. Reiss

He so routinely disparaged other people's importance that he didn't notice he was degrading me. — Maya Angelou

The whole constitution of property on its present tenures, is injurious, and its influence on persons deteriorating and degrading. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

What one person sees as degrading and disgusting and bad for women might make some women feel empowered and beautiful and strong. — Sasha Grey

For tens of millions of people [television] has become habit-forming, brain-softening, taste-degrading. — Louis Kronenberger

The anarchy that threatens a degrading society is not its punishment, but its remedy. — Nicolas Gomez Davila

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

A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product. — William S. Burroughs

My God died young. Theolatry i found
Degrading, and its premises, unsound.
No free man needs God; but was I free? — Vladimir Nabokov

Ensconced in our finite spaces,
We think we are at the helm of justice:
Degrading people's minutest of affairs. — Taranum

When I say that asian women are beautiful it's not a sexual thing. I'm not being degrading, I find them sexually repulsive. — Doug Stanhope

The doctrines of grace humble man without degrading him and exalt him without inflating him. — Charles Hodge

Contrary to our culture, the Biblical doctrine of Grace humbles us without degrading us, and elevates us without inflating us. — Kenneth Boa

The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value. — Oscar Wilde

I will not be a sight gag for anybody. I will not do anything degrading to myself or other fat people. — Darlene Cates

The wish to hear such baseness is degrading. — Dante Alighieri

Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it. — A.J. Muste

We just need a strong female perspective, especially in the world now ... when the degrading of women has become such a popular thing. — Storm Saulter

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

Which means I have to lie to her on a daily basis, which is in itself enjoyable but a little degrading at the same time — Kathryn Stockett

The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education. — Jane Rule

I admire actresses who are good to women. I don't like the ones who just don't like women. You can feel it. They're degrading themselves. — Sandra Bullock

Capitalism, and capitalism alone, has rescued the human race from degrading poverty, rampant sickness and early death. — Llewellyn Rockwell

You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you'd love to know what it's like, wouldn't you? — Charlotte Gainsbourg

The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I want to be indifferent to vengeance. It's degrading. Not having a spirit of vengeance protects me, internally. — Segolene Royal

I don't find anything upsetting or gross or degrading about fighting with a mental illness: Bipolar or Schizophrenia. — Kangana Ranaut

Consider a very natural process, menstruation, and how the association has been created in which this process is dirty, degrading. — Frederick Lenz

In the end, one can only die for Sibylle. To love for her, my friends say, is degrading. — Annemarie Schwarzenbach

I consider jealousy to be insulting to you and degrading to me. — Leo Tolstoy

Some women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern. — Mary Wollstonecraft

Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children. — Leon Kass

But a compassion for that which is not and cannot be useful and lovely, is degrading and futile. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Confession of one's guilt purifies and uplifts. Its suppression is degrading and should always be avoided. — Mahatma Gandhi

Each project matters, and the only degrading part is giving less than one is capable of giving. — Ryan Holiday

Revolution means democracy in today's world, not the enslavement of peoples to the corrupt and degrading horrors of totalitarianism — Ronald Reagan

The sight of one's own heart is degrading; people are not meant to look inward - that's why they've been given bodies, to hide their souls. — Shirley Jackson

I consider jealousy a humiliating and degrading feeling, and I shall never allow myself to be influenced by it. — Leo Tolstoy

Extreme poverty is not only a condition of unsatisfied material needs. It is often accompanied by a degrading state of powerlessness. — Peter Singer

Vicious habits are so odious and degrading that they transform the individual who practices them into an incarnate demon. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Political commercials encourage the deceptive, the destructive and the degrading. — John O'Toole

They may be convenient slaves, but slavery will have its constant effect, degrading the master and the abject dependent. — Mary Wollstonecraft

People of vision must not be lazy, they must not be afraid of work, no matter how degrading the work might seem — Sunday Adelaja

Authority is quite degrading. — Oscar Wilde

Fate! This four-letter little word gave the biggest harm to mankind! We must totally get rid of this degrading concept of primitiveness! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Subservience is degrading, even if you like it. — Marty Rubin