Degrade Quotes

Degrade Quote of the day

I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

The moment anyone tries to demean or degrade you in any way, you have to know how great you are. Nobody would bother to beat you down if you were not a threat.

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

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

A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and to degrade religion.

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

Our objective is clear: we will degrade, and ultimately destroy, ISIL through a comprehensive and sustained counter-terrorism strategy.

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

And if you can't shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade it.

wealth means power: the power to subdue, to crush, to exploit, the power to enslave, to outrage, to degrade.

No one can degrade us except ourselves.

Degrade and ultimately destroy ISIL

The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants.

Whoever degrades another degrades me.

Media corporations have a civic responsibility not only to prevent fraud and financial abuse, but also to not corrupt or degrade our culture.

We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not so as to degrade other countries.

Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.

Far better for a man that he had never been born than that he should degrade a pulpit into a show box to exhibit himself in.

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.

So much of the habitat destruction and pollution is based on the simple principle that we somehow have been given free license over other species to degrade the planet.

History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active.

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.

Any time you can degrade or take away the top leadership of an organization, it's a positive step forward.

Does virtual intimacy degrade our experience of the other kind and, indeed, of all encounters, of any kind?

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.

You degrade us and then ask why we are degraded. You shut our mouths and ask why we don't speak. You close your colleges and seminaries against us and then ask why we don't know.

No matter how many plots we uncover and disrupt, no matter how many terrorist organizations we degrade or destroy, another individual or group will rise to take their place.

We're going to achieve our goal. We are going to degrade and ultimately defeat ISIL.

Color is made to obscure the brightest endowments, to degrade the fairest character, and to check the highest and most praiseworthy aspirations.

Don't ever let them pull you down so low as to hate them. (also cited as: I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.)

AT&T will not block access to the public Internet or degrade service, period.

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

Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.

Cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.

Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.

I think that sacrifices of animals in the name of religion are barbarous and they degrade the name of religion.

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.

Of the two, I prefer those who render vice lovable to those who degrade virtue.

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

A big ethical question is what happens after people stop using the device. Does it degrade the environment? Could it have been designed so it would actually be good for the environment?

I mean, if you degrade someone, you isolate them, you control them, you call them names, you demean them. That's a horrible existence for people.

There are two ways to become famous. Degrade yourself or have talent. The first way is easier.

Living in stressful situations there are chemicals in your brain that are released that essentially degrade the neuron connections that allow you to function as a normal human being.

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

As the many male victims of rape in the regime's disgusting jails can testify, this state-run pathology of sexual repression and sexual sadism is not content to degrade women only.

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

We're not locked in to these conditions that degrade the environment, and jeopardize the future of our children.

Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few.

If someone does me injury I must desire that this injury shall not degrade me. I must desire this out of love for him who inflicts it, in order that he may not really have done evil.