Top 24 Devaluing Quotes

#1. By failing to value your time, you are devaluing your life.

Debasish Mridha

#2. Our moral frailty is a strange consolation.

Jen Pollock Michel

#3. Our civilization ... is not devaluing its awareness of the unknowable; nor is it deifying it. It is the first civilization that has severed it from religion and superstition. In order to question it.

Andre Malraux

#4. People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.

Karl Lagerfeld

#5. A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but a woman called by a devaluing name will only be weakened by the misnomer.

Maya Angelou

#6. Employment is an employee's kissing of an employer's ass. A salary is the employer's pretense to be cleaning his ass.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#7. You cannot begin to understand the failure of marriage - or the living of these ideas commitment or covenant - without considering and factoring in the devaluing of fatherhood. The two are inextricably linked and dependent.

H. Kirk Rainer

#8. First-wave video games and second-wave feminism were contemporaries.

Nick Dyer-Witheford

#9. Management has failed miserably at creating increased value for shareholders. Indeed, despite some recent short-term gains, which actually only put us back where we were eight years ago, they have been devaluing our assets, turning a unique institution into just another entertainment company.

Roy O. Disney

#10. Thank you for allowing me to use colors as rich and deep as you please. I had always wanted to do so, yet was never allowed because of the color capabilities of our lithographers. Now that I have done it, I don't think I'll ever go back.

Maxfield Parrish

#11. Defining child care primarily as women's sphere reinforces the devaluing of women and prevents their equal access to power.

Mary Frances Berry

#12. Things have become devalued to the point where people don't realize the repercussions, that they're devaluing themselves. It could end up bringing about chaos, a lawless situation.

Marilyn Manson

#13. That was one of your favorite themes: that profusion, replication, popularity wasn't necessarily devaluing, and that time itself made all things rare. You loved to savor the present tense and were more conscious than anyone I have ever met that its every constituent is fleeting.

Lionel Shriver

#14. The world is still sexist.

Barbara Broccoli

#15. I am trying to call attention to the elephant in the room that everybody is too polite - or too devout - to notice: religion, and specifically the devaluing effect that religion has on human life.

Richard Dawkins

#16. In medieval times, if someone displayed the symptoms we now identify as boredom, that person was thought to be committing something called acedia, a 'dangerous form of spiritual alienation'
a devaluing of the world and its creator.

Richard Louv

#17. Hyperbolic myths of origin have from the earliest times served to lend a paradoxical plausibility to the biographies of heroes.

Michael Chabon

#18. Going first is courageous. I'm just talking on a spirit level now.

John Densmore

#19. We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya: He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.

Chinua Achebe

#20. I am not devaluing thoughts. Just do not mix up what we think with what actually is.

Taizan Maezumi

#21. I can write anywhere that's quiet. I have a study in my apartment, but I often work in the kitchen of a house that we rent in the country.

Jonathan Galassi

#22. If we're all living in ourselves and mistaking it for life, then we're devaluing and desensitizing life.

Thandie Newton

#23. You can insult me, but it only makes you look weak." "Why weak?" he asks, losing his smile. "By devaluing me so you'll look better in comparison, you actually make yourself look like a punk." "Thanks,

Bijou Hunter

#24. Blaming Black mothers, then, is a way of subjugating the Black race as a whole. At the same time, devaluing motherhood is particularly damaging to Black women.

Dorothy Roberts

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