A Quote by Walt Whitman

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

Walt Whitman

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

Whoever degrades another degrades 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

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Simone Weil

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

War is not the only arena where peace is done to death. Wherever suffering is ignored, there will be the seeds of conflict, for suffering degrades and embitters and enrages.

Aung San Suu Kyi

What is it men love in Genius, but its infinite hope, which degrades all it has done? Genius counts all its miracles poor and short. Its own idea it never executed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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?

Albert Camus

... one pets what one degrades; and one has to support what one has enfeebled

Phyllis Bottome

Suffering degrades, embitters and enrages.

Aung San Suu Kyi

If Thought is capable of being classed with Electricity, or Will with chemical affinity, as a mode of motion, it seems necessary to fall at once under the second law of thermodynamics as one of the energies which most easily degrades itself, and, if not carefully guarded, returns bodily to the cheaper form called Heat. Of all possible theories, this is likely to prove the most fatal to Professors of History.