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Debasing your currency sometimes works in the short term, it has never worked in the long term and does not even usually work in the medium term. Lots of politicians like to do it because it is an easy way. -- Jim Rogers
Whoever debases others is debasing himself. -- James A. Baldwin
Whoever debases others is debasing himself. -- James A. Baldwin
There is no idol more debasing than the worship of money. -- Andrew Carnegie
Alas! the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects. -- George Eliot
The grace of God exalts a man without inflating him, and humbles a man without debasing him. -- Charles Hodge
Why does everybody think that women are debasing themselves when we expose the conditions of our debasement? -- Chris Kraus
Is society debasing the idea of heroism by using it to describe anyone who makes people feel good about themselves? -- Lena Williams
Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? -- Patrick Henry
The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it. -- Susan B. Anthony
An abundance of Twitter users believe they can troll and rant with impunity, no matter how debasing or even threatening their 140-character posts pose. -- Jonathan Capehart
The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all. -- Gore Vidal
In the Book of Poetry there are three hundred poems, but the meaning of all of them may be put in a single sentence: Have no debasing thoughts. -- Confucius
The daily lesson of slum life, visualised, reiterated, of low standards, vile living, obscenity, profanity, impurity, is bound tobe dwarfing and debasing to the children who are in the midst of it. -- Albion Fellows Bacon
We're making tin gods out of those poor buffoons in Hollywood; I dote on movies and appreciate the scanty art therein but I consider the profession about the most debased and debasing I know. -- Robert E. Howard
It is possible to increase paper-money income to any amount by debasing the currency. But real income can only be increased by working harder or more efficiently, saving more, investing more, and producing more. -- Henry Hazlitt
I must oppose any attempt that Negroes may make to do to others what has been done to them. . . . I know the spiritual wasteland to which that road leads . . . whoever debases others is debasing himself. -- James A. Baldwin
Until politicos take a true stand in defense of marriage by proposing an anti-adultery amendment to the Constitution, stop demonizing gays and lesbians when the one debasing your marriage is the individual in the mirror. -- John Ridley
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