Degrade Quotes
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All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle -
I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood. Don't degrade me into the position of giving you useful information. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Oscar Wilde
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Degrade first the Arts if you'd Mankind Degrade. Hire Idiots to Paint with cold light & hot shade: Give high Price for the worst, leave the best in disgrace, And with Labours of Ignorance fill every place.
William Blake -
It is okay not to like someone, but it is never okay to try and degrade, humiliate, or dehumanize them.
Cory Booker -
If we have power to degrade an entire society, then we also have the power to uplift it.
Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions -
It's horrible to be a sex object at any age, but at least when you're an adult you can make the decision if you want to degrade yourself.
Natalie Portman -
What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant well-being, and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.
John Ruskin -
How ironical that it is by means of speech that man can degrade himself below the level of dumb creation -- for a chatterbox is truly of a lower category than a dumb creature.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Know mankind well, don't degrade every man as evil, and don't exalt every man thinking he is good. He who cannot discover himself; cannot discover the world.
Rumi -
A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and to degrade religion.
Hugo Black -
There are two ways to become famous. Degrade yourself or have talent. The first way is easier.
Gary Janetti -
Booker T. once said, “I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
Carrie Jones -
There is only one way to degrade mankind permanently and that is to destroy language.
Northrop Frye