Demeaned Quotes

#1. Aggressive female icons have been chronically demeaned ... It's fine for male artists to be angry - they're encouraged to outwardly express their aggression - but women? I've been painted as an aggressive Feminazi because I'm blunt, stubborn, independent, forthright.

Lydia Lunch

#2. The staircase was deserted - the higher up the building the more reluctant were the residents to use the stairs, as if this in some way demeaned them.

J.G. Ballard

#3. People need to feel safe to talk without their ideas being criticized, judged, demeaned, or mocked.

Timothy Carey

#4. And you dared to go counter to your father's wishes? They should have been a command to you. Give me one reason, only one, why, flinging decency to the winds, you demeaned yourself by becoming a baker.'
'Hunger.

W. Somerset Maugham

#5. I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies. The U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins thought I had demeaned myself by writing poetry for Hallmark Cards, but I am the people's poet so I write for the people.

Maya Angelou

#6. So also is the case if I don't care the one abusing me. He is the one going to be demeaned.

Gautama Buddha

#7. 'Hannity' had a a guy on that said, 'I fathered 20 kids by 14 mothers.' That is s cultural issue which has demeaned our society and has caused our society dearly in terms of imprisonment. Who's going to be the fathers to those children? Who's going to pay child support?

Foster Friess

#8. If you have assumed any character beyond your strength, you have both demeaned yourself ill in that and quitted one which you might have supported.

Epictetus

#9. Always choose life. A demeaned life is better than the best death.

Mo Yan

#10. [Describing the soap in the gulag] It smelt as if some sacred physical law had been demeaned in its creation.

Martin Amis

#11. I doubt if there is any occupation which is more consistently and unfairly demeaned, degraded, denounced, and deplored than banking.

William Proxmire

#12. Anonymous blog comments, vapid video pranks and lightweight mash-ups may seem trivial and harmless, but as a whole, this widespread practice of fragmentary, impersonal communication has demeaned personal interaction.

Jaron Lanier

#13. We are not a nation of immigrants. We are a nation of citizens. I am sick and tired of the American citizen being demeaned and treated as a second-class citizen while anybody who crosses the border is treated as the most virtuous human being on the face of the earth.

Mark Levin

#14. Sex is a sacred act which sadly, over the past few decades, has been demeaned and demoralized until it means almost nothing to most people. Veray few still appreciate the emotional and spiritual connection that can and should take place when two bodies and souls are joined together.

Karen Amanda Hooper

#15. Meanness demeans the demeaner far more than the demeaned.

Malcolm Forbes

#16. I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado, or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at another man's table.

Miguel De Cervantes

#17. Science, however, is not just a matter of making mistakes, but of making mistakes in public. Making mistakes for all to see, in the hopes of getting the others to help with the corrections.

Daniel C. Dennett

#18. I'm the nicest, most loyal person in the world when it comes to my friends.

Paris Hilton

#19. I've had to work very hard, and I don't really have a category or fit into any niche, so each time I come out with a new record, it's like, I'm a new guy.

Lenny Kravitz

#20. The rehearsal process in general is about trusting one another.

George Clooney

#21. A world of your own creation is a beautiful place to be.

Sandra Golden

#22. I like books on tape, and will listen to just about anything.

David Sedaris

#23. In the theater, you act more of the time. In the movies, you get to act maybe 20 or 30 minutes of the day. I love acting in movies. It's just different.

Alec Baldwin

#24. The Jew bows before no man only God

Menachem Begin

#25. Who loves the golden mean is safe from the poverty of a tenement, is free from the envy of a palace.

Horace