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Whoever degrades another degrades me. -- Walt Whitman
Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being. -- Simone Weil
One degrades oneself sometimes in the effort not to be lonely. -- John Fowles
If you would rise, shun luxury, for luxury lowers and degrades. -- Saint John Chrysostom
Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior. -- Boethius
Money degrades all the gods of man and converts them into commodities. -- Karl Marx
Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it. -- George Sand
Guilt once harbored in the conscious breast, intimidates the brave, degrades the great. -- Samuel Johnson
Servitude degrades people to such a point that they come to like it. -- Luc de Clapiers
It is not true that sex degrades women... if it is any good. -- Steve Coogan
When the will loves anything that is below it in dignity, it degrades itself. -- Fulton J. Sheen
... one pets what one degrades; and one has to support what one has enfeebled -- Phyllis Bottome
Women have the right to say: this is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades. -- Tillie Olsen
Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose. -- Carrie Snow
Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose. -- Carrie Snow
It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades. -- Susan Sontag
My meaning is, that no man can expect his children to respect what he degrades. -- Charles Dickens
Nothing degrades a man do more than the allowed stoop so low as to hate someone -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me. -- Walt Whitman
See yourself living in a new body. Hopeful = recovery. Happy = happier biochemistry. Stress degrades the bod. -- Rhonda Byrne
Anger is like an intoxicant; it reduces man and degrades him to the level of an animal. -- Sathya Sai Baba
Liberty, when it degrades into licentiousness, begets confusion, and frequently ends in tyranny or some woeful confusion. -- George Washington
As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker. -- Annie Dillard
An epithet or metaphor drawn from nature ennobles art; an epithet or metaphor drawn from art degrades nature. -- Samuel Johnson
The preaching that ignores the doctrine of Hell lowers the holiness of God and degrades the work of Christ. -- Paul Stewart
... motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches. -- Frank Herbert
All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised. -- Oscar Wilde
Widowhood imposed by religion or custom is an unbearable yoke and defiles the home by secret vice and degrades religion. -- Mahatma Gandhi
In human history a moral victory is always a disaster, for it debauches and degrades both the victor and the vanquished. -- H. L. Mencken
The decision to give an indicative date for a return is a mistake. It degrades the process. It degrades human life. -- David Trimble
But as the cerebellum degrades with age, so does the quality of memories. The memories are there, but they're not as good. -- Bill Nye
A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego. -- Muhammad Iqbal
The enormous expectation having to do with sexual love and the shame involved in this expectation degrades all a woman's perspectives from the start. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Online petitions are built around getting as many signatures as possible. But the experience of taking them and forgetting about them degrades the importance. -- Margaret D. Klein
The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest. -- Henry David Thoreau
If a man is not peaceful and non-violent, whichever religion he belongs to, he is not a man! Violence degrades man to a low-degree creature! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
No human being can control love, and no one is to blame either for feeling it or for losing it. What alone degrades a woman is falsehood. -- George Sand
Even among the married, sexual satisfaction must not be sought in a way which disregards man's character as a person and degrades him to the animal level. -- Francis Arinze
The outsourcing of our memory to machines expands the amount of data to which we have access, but degrades our brainâ??s own ability to remember things. -- Douglas Rushkoff
The real sustains the same relation to the ideal that a stone does to a statue - or that paint does to a painting. Realism degrades and impoverishes. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
The whip degrades; a severe father teaches his children to dissemble; their love is pretense, and their obedience a species of self-defense. Fear is the father of lies. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
There is no place in "our Army" for those who sexually harass or intimidate others, or whose use of alcohol or drugs degrades themselves and the soldiers around them. -- Glen E. Morrell
There is nothing derogatory in any employment which ministers to the well-being of the race. It is the spirit that is carried into an employment that elevates or degrades it. -- Horace Mann
War is not the only arena where peace is done to death. Wherever suffering is ignored, there will be the seeds of conflict, for suffering degrades and embitters and enrages. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
The junk merchant doesn't sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the client. -- William S. Burroughs
It is not the principled partisan, however obnoxious he may seem to his opponents, who degrades our public debate, but the preening, self-styled statesman who elevates compromise to a first principle. -- Tom DeLay
He that despairs degrades the Deity, and seems to intimate that He is insufficient, or not just to His word; and in vain hath read the scriptures, the world, and man. -- Owen Feltham
Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title. The thing is perfectly harmless in itself, but it marks a sort of foppery in the human character, which degrades it. -- Thomas Paine
What is it men love in Genius, but its infinite hope, which degrades all it has done? Genius counts all its miracles poor and short. Its own idea it never executed. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Psychoanalysis is a technique we practice at our cost; psychoanalysis degrades our risks, our dangers, our depths; it strips us of our impurities, of all that made us curious about ourselves. -- Emile M. Cioran
Socialised humanity represses nature and degrades human nature; it takes life and waters it down - probably to control it - diluting existence with water that is lukewarm, sweet and murky. -- Michael Leunig
War may make a fool of man, but it by no means degrades him; on the contrary, it tends to exalt him, and its net effects are much like those of motherhood on women. -- H. L. Mencken
What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very real one, which degrades men to the point of shame, madness, and murder? -- Albert Camus
Good is that which elevates the mind, and evil, is that which degrades the mind. Social virtue and vice are temporal entities. These things have nothing to do with a person's relationship with the Supreme. -- Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar

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