A Quote by Walt Whitman

Whoever degrades another degrades me.

Walt Whitman

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Walt Whitman
American - Poet
May 31, 1819 - March 26, 1892

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

Walt Whitman

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

David Trimble

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

Oscar Wilde

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

What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very real one, which degrades men to the point of shame, madness, and murder?