“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
“Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?”
Patrick Henry
“This is all being done after the humiliation and degradation of the arrest.”
Alan Konop
“If we are to rule out ... 'degrading techniques' to be used against prisoners or terrorists, then I think we could thoroughly dismiss any possibility of getting information about an imminent terrorist attack, period.”
Steve Emerson
“Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me”
Walt Whitman
“The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.”
William Blake
“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
