Demeans Quotes

#1. The suffering inflicted, and more often than not on the most vulnerable sectors of society, demeans all of us as humanity. That it is invariably women, children, the aged and disabled who suffer in these conflicts stands to the added shame of humankind.

Nelson Mandela

#2. Anytime a woman competes with another woman she demeans herself.

Sherry Argov

#3. In the end, the claim that just social structures would make works of charity superfluous masks a materialist conception of man: the mistaken notion that man can live "by bread alone" (Mt 4:4; cf. Dt 8:3) - a conviction that demeans man and ultimately disregards all that is specifically human.

Pope Benedict XVI

#4. The same government that requires a taxpaying citizen to document every statement on his tax return decrees that questioning a welfare applicant demeans and humiliates him.

Ronald Reagan

#5. To use ones religion as a rationalization for lack of financial success demeans that faith.

James Cook

#6. It demeans you to cover rotten meat with honey. I know what I am. What would you want with a monster?"
"Everything.

Holly Black

#7. This pervasive idea that trans women deserve violence needs to be abolished. It's a socially sanctioned practice of blaming the victim. We must begin blaming our culture, which stigmatizes, demeans, and strips trans women of their humanity.

Janet Mock

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

Malcolm Forbes

#9. Martin Luther King demeans his race and retards the advancement of his people.

Strom Thurmond

#10. It is easy to tell confidence from pride. Confidence lifts, encourages, helps, and is full of gratitude. Pride demeans, mocks, destroys, and is bitter and resentful.

Damon Throop

#11. What is happening to teachers now across this nation is a disgrace. The attacks on them are a blot on our nation. Teachers and students are not different interest groups. Anyone who demeans teachers demeans education and hurts children.

Diane Ravitch

#12. When you meet familiarity which demeans true integrity, run away!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#13. It demeans a society to rely on random acts of mercy, Johanna.

Caitlin Moran

#14. A dim capacity for wings demeans the dress I wear.

Emily Dickinson

#15. Abject poverty is demeaning, is an assault on the dignity of those that suffer it. In the end it demeans us all. It makes the freedom of all of us less meaningful.

Nelson Mandela

#16. Those who desire to become rich, desire it at once.

Juvenal

#17. It means she chose light over darkness. I want people to know that so they'll always remember.
I always will.
Bonnie McCullough

L.J.Smith

#18. Though we call God our Father, own Him to be the disposer of all things, and that His word is truth; yet we will not give Him that trust which we give to mortal unfaithful man.

Howell Harris

#19. I've always been a foodie. My grandmother got me hooked on cooking.

Debi Mazar

#20. Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart

B.K.S. Iyengar

#21. The hatched chick cannot go back to the shell, the falcon who has found the sky does not willingly sit the nest.

Mercedes Lackey

#22. I know that if I went to other studios, like in Vancouver, that those are set up to be as professional and as true, so it's just a different flavour, it's a different sound, but I think both have their place.

Billy Sherwood