“All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.”
Aristotle
“Authority is quite degrading”
Oscar Wilde
“Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me”
Walt Whitman
“Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?”
Patrick Henry
“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
“However degraded or wretched a fellow mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species”
Seneca
