(46 quotes found)
“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
“Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?”
Patrick Henry
“Color is made to obscure the brightest endowments, to degrade the fairest character, and to check the highest and most praiseworthy aspirations.”
Charles Lenox Remond
“Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.”
“I would never do it in public. I would really find it degrading to do it in public.”
Brian May
“Political commercials encourage the deceptive, the destructive and the degrading.”
John O'Toole
“However degraded or wretched a fellow mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species”
Seneca
“belittled, degraded, nervous, anxious, hysterical, shocked and frightened.”
Courtney Love
