Quotes About Downgrading Others

#1. Music is an extremely powerful force if used properly to uplift people. I believe music should be uplifting and not downgrading ... it's a very, very powerful tool.

Gary Wright

#2. To the ideal of high consumption and the downgrading of spiritual values corresponds a conception of injustice that centers exclusively on the problem of consumption; and equality in consumption cannot be achieved except by violence.

Jacques Ellul

#3. Whenever I'm being invited to the New York City Marathon like today, I need to think twice because I know it's a very tough race.

Martin Lel

#4. As we develop and get quicker with technology in America, it's like we're downgrading if you look at the investment in education ... that's the thing that worries me.

Will.i.am

#5. A transitional government is the beginning of a transfer of sovereignty. It's a question of Iraqi security and moving forward with the political process.

Joschka Fischer

#6. There are innumerable ways to murder a person, but the most subtle and pernicious of these is to mutilate the soul of the innocent by denying or downgrading their uniqueness and their beauty.

Gerry Spence

#7. Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.

Desmond Tutu

#8. Bert was short and stout. Cec was tall and lanky. Between them, there was nothing that they could not reach.

Kerry Greenwood

#9. So just because I gave the right name to a bit of colored cloth you conclude that I'm not mad.

Paulo Coelho

#10. The word 'living' has so many connotations that I'm almost reluctant to try to define it scientifically because it sounds as if I'm then downgrading all the other significances of that word.

Francis Collins

#11. Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.

Barbara Bush

#12. Hasn't anyone taken their time to love you in a while?

Stella Knights

#13. I am also downgrading his pronoun from a 'he' to an 'it'.

Nicole Amakan

#14. Passion is taking such a bite out of life that when the juices run down your face, everyone licks their lips!

Chuck Spezzano

#15. Those who make hostility a daily manner are often left in the lurch at difficult times.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#16. Huh," Zoya said to Adrik. "I'm impressed." At the elation that burst over his face, she groaned. "Never mind. I'm downgrading that to grudging approval.

Leigh Bardugo

#17. I have no evangelical feelings about art at all. I despise art education. Art doesn't lend itself to education. There is no knowledge there. It's a set of propositions about how things should look.

Dave Hickey

#18. At the very beginning of my career, when I opened my business in Italy, I was also a ranked tennis player. I had won many tournaments. To be an athlete was my first choice. Second choice: designer. However! There was more money in being a designer at that time.

Oleg Cassini

#19. As a child, I had been told that I was exactly what a ballerina should be.

Misty Copeland

#20. Never lose the awe and wonder of having a personal God get personally involved in your life.

Calvin Miller