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The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education. -- Jane Rule
Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children. -- Leon Kass
You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you'd love to know what it's like, wouldn't you? -- Charlotte Gainsbourg
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
The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding. -- Margaret Sanger
Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone. -- Nathan Deal
Cruelty to men and to the lower animals as well, which would have passed unnoticed a century ago, now shocks the sensibilities and is regarded as wicked and degrading. -- Elihu Root
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
As President, I will end once and for all the use of taxpayer funds to promote the National Endowment for the Arts and other programs that subsidize amoral and degrading activities. -- Gary Bauer
To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her. -- Barbara Cartland
The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their captors, and the reports of acts of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and other acts of maltreatment shock the conscience. -- Ed Markey
After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world. -- Billy Sunday
The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it. -- Thomas Jefferson
My God died young. Theolatry i found Degrading, and its premises, unsound. No free man needs God; but was I free? -- Vladimir Nabokov
Authority is quite degrading. -- Oscar Wilde
To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading. -- Seneca the Younger
I want to be indifferent to vengeance. It's degrading. Not having a spirit of vengeance protects me, internally. -- Segolene Royal
Revolution means democracy in today's world, not the enslavement of peoples to the corrupt and degrading horrors of totalitarianism -- Ronald Reagan
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
The real demon is success-the anxieties engendered by this quest are relentless, degrading, corroding. What is worse, there is no end to this escalation of desire. -- Marya Mannes
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 the American Dream. -- Hunter S. Thompson
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 world in its hypocrisy demands. -- Oscar Wilde
Broadsheets can be scathing. But I have respect for broadsheet journalists because they haven't succumbed to degrading themselves, to writing pidgin English with all these terrible colloquialisms, the phrasing of which is just, like, embarrassing. -- Peaches Geldof
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 me to my core. I am mortified by my music choices. -- Roxane Gay
Google, Facebook, and other consumer web companies violate our privacy. But that's only because they have an ad-based business model. They can only make money by selling your data - and degrading the product experience with ads. -- Jose Ferreira
There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief. -- Barbara Castle
In Philadelphia, I inadvertently came upon an edition of Robert Ingersoll's Essays and Lectures. This was an exciting discovery; his atheism confirmed my own belief that the horrific cruelty of the Old Testament was degrading to the human spirit. -- Charlie Chaplin
Of all the evils for which man has made himself responsible, none is so degrading, so shocking, or so brutal as his abuse of the better half of humanity; to me, the female sex is not the weaker sex. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Girls can wear jeans and 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 cause you think being a girl is degrading -- Madonna Ciccone
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 is no life zone, with the possible exception of the deep ocean, that we are not degrading. -- Donella Meadows
The human world is a long way from meeting the needs of the present, and it is borrowing massively from the future - not only by piling up money debt, but also by degrading the resources from which all real wealth ultimately comes. -- Donella Meadows
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 and strife. Sadly, in the name of progress we have polluted the air, water, soil and the food we eat. -- Radhanath Swami
I know what it's like to be growing up, called 'deaf and mute' and 'deaf and dumb.' They're words that are very degrading and demeaning to people who are deaf and hard of hearing. It's almost... it's almost libelous, if you want to say that. -- Marlee Matlin
If I didn't forgive the people who took me into the barracks and beat me unconscious over a period of days during the period when the British state was indicted for inhuman and degrading treatment in 1971-72, or even the guys who shot me, if you don't forgive them, you end up with unnecessary baggage. -- Gerry Adams
An environmentalist can oppose factory farming because it's reckless stewardship. A conservative can oppose factory farming because it is destructive to small farmers and to the decent ethic of husbandry those farmers live by. A religious person can oppose factory farming because it is degrading to both man and animal - an offense to God. -- Matthew Scully
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 all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety. -- Daniel J. Boorstin
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 desired on the part of the woman and she has no response, it should not take place. This is an act of prostitution and is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding. -- Margaret Sanger
Drown those degrading thoughts. -- Jaachynma N.E. Agu
All forced virtue is degrading in it effect. -- Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
Subservience is degrading, even if you like it. -- Marty Rubin
Ignorance is degrading only when found in company with great riches. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
I am liberating man from the degrading chimera known as `conscience'. -- Adolf Hitler
For tens of millions of people [television] has become habit-forming, brain-softening, taste-degrading. -- Louis Kronenberger
War with all its glorification of brute force is essentially a degrading thing. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Some women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
The anarchy that threatens a degrading society is not its punishment, but its remedy. -- Nicolás Gómez Dávila
We live in the digital age, and unfortunately it's degrading our music, not improving. -- Neil Young
There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one's means of livelihood. -- W. Somerset Maugham
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The doctrines of grace humble man without degrading him and exalt him without inflating him. -- Charles Hodge
A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product. -- William S. Burroughs
You're never the same. You're degrading, or you're getting better. You don't stay the same. -- M. Night Shyamalan
Confession of one's guilt purifies and uplifts. Its suppression is degrading and should always be avoided. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Capitalism, and capitalism alone, has rescued the human race from degrading poverty, rampant sickness and early death. -- Llewellyn Rockwell
But a compassion for that which is not and cannot be useful and lovely, is degrading and futile. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The whole constitution of property on its present tenures, is injurious, and its influence on persons deteriorating and degrading. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Vicious habits are so odious and degrading that they transform the individual who practices them into an incarnate demon. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Contrary to our culture, the Biblical doctrine of Grace humbles us without degrading us, and elevates us without inflating us. -- Kenneth Boa
Consider a very natural process, menstruation, and how the association has been created in which this process is dirty, degrading. -- Frederick Lenz
All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised. -- Oscar Wilde
The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value. -- Oscar Wilde
Extreme poverty is not only a condition of unsatisfied material needs. It is often accompanied by a degrading state of powerlessness. -- Peter Singer
Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it. -- A. J. Muste
...I will not be a sight gag for anybody. I will not do anything degrading to myself or other fat people. -- Darlene Cates
The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
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
What one person sees as degrading and disgusting and bad for women might make some women feel empowered and beautiful and strong. -- Sasha Grey
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
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
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
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
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
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
Pedagogues: More than any other class of blind leaders of the blind they are responsible for the degrading standardization which now afflicts the American people. -- H. L. Mencken
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
The thing we've learned from the last 20 years of counterterrorism is the significant value you get from removing leadership from the battlefield in degrading the organization. -- Michael Morell
What plethora of material goods can possibly atone for a waking life so humanly belittling, if not degrading, as the push-button tasks left to human performers? -- Lewis Mumford
Multi-taskers often think they are like gym rats, bulking up their ability to juggle tasks, when in fact they are like alcoholics, degrading their abilities through over-consumption. -- Clay Shirky
It was somehow degrading, craving someone so... voraciously - another good calendar word - just because he was physically beautiful. I hadn't thought that was something women did, either. -- Charlaine Harris
Those who are determined to be 'offended' will discover a provocation somewhere. We cannot possibly adjust enough to please the fanatics, and it is degrading to make the attempt. -- Christopher Hitchens
...If our houses, or clothes, our household furniture and utensils are not works of art, they are either wretched makeshifts, or, what is worse, degrading shams of better things. -- William Morris
In the morning I had decided that henceforth I only cared for easy loves. It is so degrading to have to persuade people into liking one, or one's works. -- Sylvia Townsend Warner
Poverty is mean and degrading to the human spirit, whereas a life of conscious simplicity can have both a beauty and a functional integrity that elevates the human spirit. -- Duane Elgin
There is nothing unholy or degrading about sexuality in itself, for by that means men and women join in a process of creation and in an expression of love -- Spencer W. Kimball
If she did bitch-slap me, I'd bitch-slap her right back, but I resented the word bitch and all its familiar forms, as it was degrading to women and dogs everywhere. -- G.G. Silverman
The whole question of evolution seems less momentous than it did, because, unlike the Victorians, we do not feel that to be descended from animals is degrading to human dignity. -- George Orwell
It is degrading both for man and woman that woman should be called upon or induced to forsake the hearth and shoulder the rifle for the protection of that hearth. -- Mahatma Gandhi
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 of as we see fit. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Enslavement to your own weakness - be it an addiction to alcohol, or to a woman or to fame - it's degrading, and it means losing your dignity and your freedom. -- Wojciech Kurtyka
Religion and nationalism, as well as any custom and any belief however absurd and degrading, if it only connects the individual with others, are refuges from what man most dreads: isolation. -- Erich Fromm
Indulged habits of dependence create habits of indolence, and indolence opens the portal to petty errors, to many degrading habits, and to vice and crime with their attendant train of miseries. -- Dorothea Dix
Profanity is filthiness. A person is known as much by his language as he is by the company he keeps...Filthiness in any form is degrading and soul-destroying and should be avoided. -- Joseph Fielding Smith
Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the conscientiousness of the illiterate give us accurate and prosaic details. . . -- Oscar Wilde
Culture as art is the peak expression of man's creativity, his capacity to break out of nature's narrow bounds, and hence out of the degrading interpretation of man in modern natural and political science. -- Allan Bloom
My greatest hope is that we transcend the most fearful thing, which is that we are rapidly degrading the ecological systems on this planet that support everything we are doing and all life on it. -- Edward Norton
The idea of passing one's whole life in moral idleness, and having one's hardest work and duty done by another-whether God or man-is most revolting to us, as it is most degrading to human dignity. -- H. P. Blavatsky
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 is not only unhappy, but also ashamed of being unhappy. -- Viktor E. Frankl
We talk about our military being degraded over time and yet we've had folks who've been a part of Congress who have participated in sequester; who participated in the degrading of this military over time. -- Chris Christie

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