A Quote by David Trimble

The decision to give an indicative date for a return is a mistake. It degrades the process. It degrades human life.

David Trimble

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Date Decision Give Human Human Life Life Mistake Process Return

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David Trimble
Irish - Politician
Born: October 15, 1944

Whoever degrades another degrades me.

Walt Whitman

Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.

Walt Whitman

All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.

Oscar Wilde

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Simone Weil

Socialised humanity represses nature and degrades human nature; it takes life and waters it down - probably to control it - diluting existence with water that is lukewarm, sweet and murky.

Michael Leunig

In human history a moral victory is always a disaster, for it debauches and degrades both the victor and the vanquished.

H. L. Mencken

No human being can control love, and no one is to blame either for feeling it or for losing it. What alone degrades a woman is falsehood.

George Sand

All modes of government are failures. Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things. Oligarchies are unjust to the many, and ochlocracies are unjust to the few. High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. It has been found out. I must say that it was high time, for all authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and degrades those over whom it is exercised.

Oscar Wilde

Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title. The thing is perfectly harmless in itself, but it marks a sort of foppery in the human character, which degrades it.