Quotes About Being Degraded

#1. In real life, women don't enjoy being degraded and treated like objects/receptacles.

Jackson Katz

#2. Proteins are constantly being degraded. Therefore, simultaneous production of proteins is required.

Ada Yonath

#3. They cannot degrade Frederick Douglass. The soul that is within me no man can degrade. I am not the one that is being degraded on account of this treatment, but those who are inflicting it upon me ...

Frederick Douglass

#4. Man is not made better by being degraded; he is seldom restrained from crime by harsh measures, except the principle of fear predominates in his character, and then he is never made radically better for its influence.

Dorothea Dix

#5. [M]an cannot be wicked without being evil, nor evil without being degraded, nor degraded without being punished, nor punished without being guilty. In short ... there is nothing so intrinsically plausible as the theory of original sin.

Joseph De Maistre

#6. Dortmunder and the Major strolled away down the long corridor overlooking customs, with the duty-free shops on one side of the corridor and on the other side the railing where people can stand and look down at their returning relatives and visiting foreign friends being degraded.

Donald E. Westlake

#7. We talk about our military being degraded over time and yet we've had folks who've been a part of Congress who have participated in sequester; who participated in the degrading of this military over time.

Chris Christie

#8. When I began to write fiction that I knew would be published as science fiction, [and] part of what I brought to it was the critical knowledge that science fiction was always about the period in which it was written.

William Gibson

#9. Behind this story so far is another story, as behind the girders of an ancient bridge is the skeleton of a child which superstition says keeps the bridge standing.

James Purdy

#10. I don't write things to benefit the world. If it happens that they do, swell. I didn't set out to do that. I set out to have a hell of a lot of fun.

Ray Bradbury

#11. The core of my being is the trigger for the choices I make. With each choice, my personality is enhanced or degraded.

Bidemi Mark-Mordi

#12. The important thing is to not walk alone, but to rely on each other as brothers and sisters

Pope Francis

#13. The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher inspiration ... Following Paul, we have turned the goodness of love into a fiend and degraded the crowning impulse of our being into a capital sin.

Frank Harris

#14. I am the queen of everything. Every woman is.

Karrine Steffans

#15. No rustle came from the trees, no insect buzz or neighbors call ... The woods were silent in their grief.

Leigh Bardugo

#16. The line between patriot and terrorist is drawn by the historian.

Tit Elingtin

#17. The Allwise Creator hath been dishonored by being made the author of fable and the human mind degraded by believing it.

Thomas Paine

#18. Where do these stairs go?
They go up!

Bill Murray

#19. A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.

Victor Hugo

#20. Elections decide which horde of rats gets to gnaw at the bones.

Lyndsay Faye

#21. It's funny, my kids and I live together, and I have a lot of actor friends. So my kids think everyone is on television every now and again, since everyone they know pops up here, but there's a whole rap of things they won't watch until they're 16 or 17.

Dallas Roberts

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

George Orwell

#23. Character is undergoing constant change, for better or for worse
either being elevated on the one hand, or degraded on the other.

Samuel Smiles

#24. Perfectionism is self-abuse of the highest order.

Anne Wilson Schaef

#25. I know that the work is good and they're excited over at ABC and Disney and it's getting some really good feedback. It's not just a little, insignificant kind of role. It's meaty, which is good.

Josh Holloway

#26. I feel like an old lady; my hero is Miss Marple.

Helen Oyeyemi

#27. The acting life is different than I thought it would be. I love it - it's actually a lot less pressure than I thought it would be.

Melanie Lynskey

#28. If you aren't affected
somehow, even in the slightest bit, you aren't
reading the right book.

Anna Todd

#29. Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine.

Gilbert Ryle