Debasement Quotes

#1. Gold is a relic from a time when government's were less trustworthy in these matters (currency debasement) than they are now.

John Maynard Keynes

#2. We all understand that the debasement of a nation's coinage is very pernicious and must prove disastrous to its commerce. How much more dangerous is the debasement of the spiritual coinage!

Virchand Gandhi

#3. So-called Individualism is the social and economic laissez-faire: the exploitation of the masses by the classes by means of legal trickery, spiritual debasement and systematic indoctrination of the servile spirit, which process is known as 'education'.

Emma Goldman

#4. I'm a professor of media studies as well as humanities, and I'm an evangelist of popular culture, but when there's only media, then there's going to be a slow debasement of language, and that's what I think we're fighting.

Camille Paglia

#5. Never underestimate the totality of chaos and betrayal that comes through currency debasement.

James Cook

#6. They want politics and think it will save them. At best, it gives direction to their numbed desires. But there is no politics but the manipulation of power through language. Thus the latter's constant debasement.

Gilbert Sorrentino

#7. 'American Horror' is the debasement of the suburban family, the way a lonely kid would have imagined it in the Seventies.

Rob Sheffield

#8. Her eyes narrowed as she realised just what Ian was. "You're a filthy Debasement!"
"Maybe. But damned if I'm the one eating kiddie-snacks in the middle ofnowhere while admiring modern art.

Stephen Hunt

#9. On the Universal Tendency to Debasement in the Sphere of Love',

Alain De Botton

#10. Editors have grown timid ... a brave advance is almost inevitably followed by quick back-tracking, generally by dilution and debasement of the original intention.

Muriel Rukeyser

#11. Slavery is ... an atrocious debasement of human nature.

Benjamin Franklin

#12. The inartistic methods that we use to blunt anxiety and unartful expedients that we resort to in order to escape pain and numb banality reveals what we dread most, the act of suffering from a mortal loss or the debasement that we earn by wallowing in our decadent acts of escapism.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#13. In schools of theology Negroes are taught the interpretation of the Bible worked out by those who have justified segregation and winked at the economic debasement of the Negro at times almost to the point of starvation.

Carter G. Woodson

#14. I have nothing against diamonds, or rubies or emeralds or sapphires. I do object when their acquisition is complicit in the debasement of children or the destruction of a country.

Edward Zwick

#15. Human beings are capable of the kind of love and loyalty that transcends not only the physical debasement but even the spiritual weariness of the years of sorrow.

Sherwin B. Nuland

#16. Isn't Hollywood a dump - in the human sense of the word. A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting gardens of its rich, full of the human spirit at a new low of debasement.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#17. Many respectable physicists said that they weren't going to stand for this
partly because it was a debasement of science, but mostly because they didn't get invited to those sort of parties.

Douglas Adams

#18. Men insist that they don't mind women succeeding so long as they retain their "femininity". Yet the qualities that men consider "feminine" timidity, submissiveness, obedience, silliness, and self-debasement are the very qualities best guaranteed to assure the defeat of even the most gifted aspirant.

Elizabeth Gould Davis

#19. It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country.

Raymond Chandler

#20. War: A wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization.

Omar N. Bradley

#21. There now exists a factor which was formerly lacking - the spirit of the nation has been aroused, and a common misfortune, a common debasement, has united all the inhabitants of the Islands.

Jose Rizal

#22. Images are the currency of our age, but it's a toss-up whether live in a time of abundance or debasement.

Douglas McCulloh

#23. No act loses us; no violence we're subjected to destroys us; no debasement chases out the divine, and no one can take the divine from us.

Daniel Odier

#24. Wantonness might be sheer desperation, masking a suicidal self-debasement, but it might also represent a joyful, lusty sexuality that indicated, at heart, a vast generosity of spirit.

Kathleen Norris

#25. We are defined by our dignity to rise above debasement. We are certainly better people for doing so.

Corey Taylor

#26. the debasement of thought cannot be separated from the debasement of language.

Anonymous

#27. The Debasement of World Currency:It Is Inflation, But Not As We Know It

Chris Powell

#28. It's very hard not to be a scoundrel nowadays. Everywhere there are pressures that work towards our personal and collective debasement.

Nelson Rodrigues

#29. Time for you and time for me,
And time yet for a hundred indecisions,
And for a hundred visions and revisions,
Before the taking of a toast and tea.

T. S. Eliot

#30. Those who fight in God's cause will be victorious.

Saddam Hussein

#31. The ordinary adult never gives a thought to space-time problems ... I, on the contrary, developed so slowly that I did not begin to wonder about space and time until I was an adult. I then delved more deeply into the problem than any other adult or child would have done.

Albert Einstein

#32. I had a vague dread that wild cattle might be near.

Charlotte Bronte

#33. Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.

Federico Fellini

#34. The Light is always there. How much light comes to you depends on you.

Choa Kok Sui

#35. And life isn't like the movies: There's no ominous swell to the sound track, no fatalistic overhead shot, nothing to tell you that this moment is the one your life will turn on; instead it's like a train silently switching tracks, sheering off midjourney into a whole other part of the night.

Paul Murray

#36. It's all bloody lies about the sea. It's just all yuk with lobsters in it.

Terry Pratchett

#37. Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be, but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.

Plato

#38. It is necessary that one be a light to oneself in a world that is becoming utterly dark.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#39. At Casablanca we did 'Midnight Express,' 'Flashdance,' and 'The Deep.' My willingness for risk has always been my strength.

Peter Guber

#40. Human affairs are not so happily arranged that the best things please the most men. It is the proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.

James A. Michener

#41. Culture is just a shambling zombie that repeats what it did in life; bits of it drop off, and it doesn't appear to notice.

Alan Moore

#42. Language by its very nature is naive,we make it complex and naughty. We make it look and sound like what it is not.

Nahiyan Bin Asadullah