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I'd find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets. -- Jack Kevorkian
A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning. -- Susan Sontag
In no way am I demeaning writing or any other form of art because it's popular. What I'm saying is that anything fed into the industrial machinery to comply with rules of size and length and shelf-life has a hard time surviving as art. -- Alberto Manguel
I know who I am and can deal with the use of Indian mascots... But I know it can be demeaning to a group of people. Maybe it would be all right if they were truly honoring the people and are giving due respect to the people they are representing. -- Leonard Little
Discipline and demand without being demeaning. -- Don Meyer
The demeaning of dignity is almost the only reason for a fight. -- Simon Soloveychik
Far from being demeaning to human spiritual values, scientific rationalism is the crowning glory of the human spirit. -- Richard Dawkins
Coveting, pouting, or tearing others down does not elevate your standing, nor does demeaning someone else improve your self-image. -- Jeffrey R. Holland
I've had a few conversations with people who are horrified: who tell me my work is demeaning, is sexist, is negative. -- Cameron Russell
Obama's pop-cultural focus may seem demeaning to the office of the presidency. It may be mockable. But it is also tremendously effective. -- Ben Shapiro
If there were more temple work done in the Church, there would be less of selfishness, less of contention, less of demeaning others. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs. -- George Will
Remember, to hate, to be violent, is demeaning. It means you're afraid of the other side of the coin -- to love and be loved. -- James A. Baldwin
I'd rather be somewhere building a house, if I knew how. The whole idea of being a professional artist is like a demeaning kind of thing. -- Willis Earl Beal
I don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't think if you're making a joke about something you're automatically demeaning it. -- David Walliams
Malcolm X found the language that communicated across the board, from college professor to floor sweeper, all at the same time, without demeaning the intellect of either. -- John Henrik Clarke
If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there's nothing here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more? -- Carl Sagan
There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this. -- Quico Canseco
To be told that one can be dependent on one's parents until age 26 should strike a young person who wants to grow up as demeaning, not as something to celebrate. -- Dennis Prager
Each test pilot I know considers him, or herself, now that there are women, to be the very best. It's very demeaning to step down the ladder once in a while -- Wally Schirra
Each test pilot I know considers him, or herself, now that there are women, to be the very best. It's very demeaning to step down the ladder once in a while. -- Wally Schirra
Abject poverty is demeaning, is an assault on the dignity of those that suffer it. In the end it demeans us all. It makes the freedom of all of us less meaningful. -- Nelson Mandela
Jesus evidently hates it when we tear into our brothers or sisters with demeaning words, words that fail to honor the people around us as the beautiful image-bearing creatures that they are. -- Francis Chan
For Democrats to reduce women to beggars for cheap government-funded birth control is demeaning to the women that I know who are far more complicated than their libido and the management of their reproductive system. -- Mike Huckabee
We need to encourage designers and agencies to be responsible. We need to make sure everyone is sensitive to the issues. But to calculate the girls' body mass - I personally think it is demeaning. -- Diane von Furstenberg
I've seen people glaze over when they're confronted with racism, and there's nothing more, you know, damning and demeaning to having any kind of ideology than people just walking the walk and saying what they're supposed to say and nodding, and nobody feels anything. -- Kara Walker
Professional farmworkers who know how to do a number of different jobs, whether it be pruning or picking or crafting, they see themselves as professionals, and they take a lot of pride in that work. They don't see themselves as doing work that is demeaning. -- Dolores Huerta
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
There are a lot of movies out there that I would hate to be paid to do, some real demeaning, real woman-denigrating stuff. It is up to women to change their roles. They are going to have to write the stuff and do it. And they will. -- Beah Richards
When you have a 12-minute debate over whether lipstick on a pig refers to a demeaning comment about the vice presidential candidate, you know we're not talking about health reform, we're not talking about energy policy, we're not talking about balancing the budget. And you know, it's fairly stupid. -- Newt Gingrich
We need a fundamental change of mindset with regards to the way we speak and behave about sex and sexuality. Boys and men have a particularly critical role in this regard, changing the chauvinist and demeaning ways sexuality and women were traditionally dealt with in both our actions and speaking. -- Nelson Mandela
Strangely, charity sometimes gets dismissed, as if it is ineffective, inappropriate or even somehow demeaning to the recipient. 'This isn't charity,' some donors take pains to claim, 'This is an investment.' Let us recognize charity for what it is at heart: a noble enterprise aimed at bettering the human condition. -- Ban Ki-moon
Persecution means an attempt to drive out, attempt to subjugate, and there are various ways that that can be done. Sarah Palin's opponents and her critics would like to see her leave the public square by insulting, degrading, demeaning, abusing and ridiculing her, and - by pretending that she has nothing to say. -- Matthew Continetti
As the mother of a son, I do not accept that alienation from me is necessary for his discovery of himself. As a woman, I will not cooperate in demeaning womanly things so that he can be proud to be a man. I like to think the women in my son's future are counting on me. -- Letty Cottin Pogrebin
As a child and a teenager, my attitudes and actions assumed the superiority of my race in almost every way without knowing or wanting to know anybody who was black, except Lucy. Lucy came to our house on Saturdays to help my mother clean. I liked Lucy, but the whole structure of the relationship was demeaning. -- John Piper
Smiling without good reason is demeaning. -- Ellen Raskin
It was demeaning to scrape affection from virtually everyone you encountered. That was immature. -- John Knowles
A wife who obsesses on "fixing" her husband only succeeds in demeaning him.pg 48 -- Michael Ben Zehabe
I hate the word starchitect. Stuff like that comes from mean-spirited, untalented journalists. It's demeaning. -- Frank Gehry
The celebrity culture demands a camera-ready-at-all-times look or else the photo is circulated in a demeaning headline. -- Zoe Cassavetes
I don't really think myself that sex work is necessarily more demeaning than other kinds of demeaning work. -- Alix Kates Shulman
I don't like the term 'black people', I find it demeaning to those of us that actually qualify as 'people'. -- Zach Braff
It's very demeaning that we have to put on a show to prove that we know how to put on a show. -- Lee Clow
Some people think it's demeaning to victims if you ever say anything out-loud about sexual abuse of children. I don't know if that's true. -- Louis C. K.
I am going to sit there and watch Michael Phelps break my record anonymously? That's almost demeaning to me. It is not almost - it is. -- Mark Spitz
A man with money to pay for a meal can talk about hunger without demeaning himself. ... But for a man with no money hunger is a disgrace. -- Vicki Baum
The amount of people that I feel like... I'm not being self-demeaning, but I actually feel like I'm not as cool as them, you know what I mean? -- Justin Vernon
I like thinking of the writer as a kind of curator; the collection as curiosity cabinet - in a non-demeaning, non-objectifying sense - but an array, a set of offerings. -- Leslie Jamison
It's the end of the day where wives stay home and raise the kids and all that. That demeaning stuff? No more. Country club memberships, that's what you shoot for! To hell with that. -- Rush Limbaugh

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