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Degrade Quotes

It is okay not to like someone, but it is never okay to try and degrade, humiliate, or dehumanize them.

It is okay not to like someone, but it is never okay to try and degrade, humiliate, or dehumanize them.

Cory Booker
Trying, Okay, Degrade
FaceBook post by Cory Booker from Oct 04, 2016

To get rid of predestination we have been willing to degrade our God into a godling.

B. B. Warfield
Willing, Has Beens, Degrade

If we have power to degrade an entire society, then we also have the power to uplift it.

KRS-One
Uplifting, Degrade, Ifs

No one can degrade us except ourselves.

Booker T. Washington
Positive, Positivity, Degrade
Booker T. Washington, Louis R. Harlan (1981). “The Booker T. Washington Papers”, p.36, University of Illinois Press

Degrade and ultimately destroy ISIL

Barack Obama
Isil, Counter Terrorism, Degrade
Barack Obama (2017). “Il futuro è il posto migliore: Il 44° Presidente degli Stati Uniti d’America in parole sue”, Rizzoli

Whoever degrades another degrades me.

Walt Whitman
Degradation, Degrade
Walt Whitman, Robert Hass (2010). “Song of Myself, and Other Poems”, p.102, Counterpoint Press

I don't like to degrade women, but I like pornography.

Lupe Fiasco
Pornography, Degrade
Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. May 14, 2006.

Servitude degrades people to such a point that they come to like it.

Luc de Clapiers
People, Degrade, Servitude

Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.

Amos Bronson Alcott
Civilization, Degrade
Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

When the will loves anything that is below it in dignity, it degrades itself.

Fulton J. Sheen
Dignity, Degrade

It is not true that sex degrades women... if it is any good.

Steve Coogan
Sex, Degrade, Ifs

... one pets what one degrades; and one has to support what one has enfeebled

Phyllis Bottome
Support, Pet, Degrade
Phyllis Bottome (1998). “The Mortal Storm”, p.13, Northwestern University Press

A religion can no more afford to degrade its Devil than to degrade its God.

Havelock Ellis
Religion, Devil, Degrade
Havelock Ellis (1915). “Impressions and comments”

My meaning is, that no man can expect his children to respect what he degrades.

Charles Dickens
Children, Men, Degrade
Charles Dickens (1850). “The life and adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit: With a frontispiece, from a drawing by Frank Stone”, p.341

Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few.

Amos Bronson Alcott
Order, Civilization, Degrade

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