Top 151 Degrade Quotes & Sayings

Color is made to obscure the brightest endowments, to degrade the fairest character, and to check the highest and most praiseworthy aspirations.

And if you can't shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade it.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

Any time you can degrade or take away the top leadership of an organization, it's a positive step forward.

We're not locked in to these conditions that degrade the environment, and jeopardize the future of our children.

Nature is solving all sorts of problems that we throw at her - how to degrade plastic bottles, how to degrade pesticides and herbicides and antibiotics. She creates new enzymes in response to that all the time, in real time.

Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.

Cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.

The moment anyone tries to demean or degrade you in any way, you have to know how great you are. Nobody would bother to beat you down if you were not a threat.

We are naturally moral beings, but our environments can enhance - or, sadly, degrade - this innate moral sense.

I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

The soul that is within me no man can degrade.

Living in stressful situations there are chemicals in your brain that are released that essentially degrade the neuron connections that allow you to function as a normal human being.

History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active.

Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.

It's slanderous to report things I didn't say, to degrade my reputation, it's sickening to me.

Of the two, I prefer those who render vice lovable to those who degrade virtue.

It is okay not to like someone, but it is never okay to try and degrade, humiliate, or dehumanize them.

How ironical that it is by means of speech that man can degrade himself below the level of dumb creation -- for a chatterbox is truly of a lower category than a dumb creature.

Some comics are made to be displayed digitally, and it doesn't degrade them.

Torture can destroy the social fabric of communities, degrade a society's institutions, and undermine the integrity of its political systems.

As the many male victims of rape in the regime's disgusting jails can testify, this state-run pathology of sexual repression and sexual sadism is not content to degrade women only.

No one can degrade us except ourselves.

Today, we are tabling a motion seeking the support of the House for the Government's decision to renew our military mission against ISIL for up to an additional 12 months. Our objectives remain the same: we intend to continue to degrade the capabilities of ISIL, that is, to degrade its ability to engage in military movements of scale, to operate bases in the open, to expand its presence in the region, and to propagate attacks outside the region.

Degrade and ultimately destroy ISIL

Degrade first the Arts if you'd Mankind Degrade. Hire Idiots to Paint with cold light & hot shade: Give high Price for the worst, leave the best in disgrace, And with Labours of Ignorance fill every place.

Americans, at our best, stand up to bullies and fight those who seek to demean and degrade others.

AT&T will not block access to the public Internet or degrade service, period.

There is only one way to degrade mankind permanently and that is to destroy language.

If you take a perfectly well-adjusted normal person of any age from anywhere in the country and stick them in L.A., within about a week I do believe that a lot of their values and morals will start to degrade.

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

To get rid of predestination we have been willing to degrade our God into a godling.

We're going to achieve our goal. We are going to degrade and ultimately defeat ISIL.

There are two ways to become famous. Degrade yourself or have talent. The first way is easier.

The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants.

I love you,” Buttercup said. “I know this must come as something of a surprise, since all I’ve ever done is scorn you and degrade you and taunt you, but I have loved you for several hours now, and every second, more.

Media corporations have a civic responsibility not only to prevent fraud and financial abuse, but also to not corrupt or degrade our culture.

Boots radiates a unique kind of class - not a glamour, but enough self-respect to not degrade itself with an in-store radio station.

Whilst we want cities as the centres where the best things are found, cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.

Our objective is clear: we will degrade, and ultimately destroy, ISIL through a comprehensive and sustained counter-terrorism strategy.

I don't like to degrade women, but I like pornography.

A big ethical question is what happens after people stop using the device. Does it degrade the environment? Could it have been designed so it would actually be good for the environment?

wealth means power: the power to subdue, to crush, to exploit, the power to enslave, to outrage, to degrade.

There are those women who degrade the name of women, and there are men who degrade the name of women. But for the most part, we can't live without them.

Such poverty as we have today in all our great cities degrades the poor, and infects with its degradation the whole neighborhood in which they live. And whatever can degrade a neighborhood can degrade a country and a continent and finally the whole civilized world, which is only a large neighborhood.

The public realm in America has two roles: it is the dwelling place of our civilization and our civic life, and it is the physical manifestation of the common good. When you degrade the public realm, you will automatically degrade the quality of your civic life and the character of all the enactments of your public life and communal life that take place there.

We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not so as to degrade other countries.

If we have power to degrade an entire society, then we also have the power to uplift it.

Does virtual intimacy degrade our experience of the other kind and, indeed, of all encounters, of any kind?

The camera may do justice to laughter, but must degrade sorrow.

What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant well-being, and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.

Far better for a man that he had never been born than that he should degrade a pulpit into a show box to exhibit himself in.

It's horrible to be a sex object at any age, but at least when you're an adult you can make the decision if you want to degrade yourself.

Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.

I find it difficult to accept that it is the will of God that humanity should degrade, deface, desolate, and ultimately perhaps destroy His Creation on Earth. Yet this is the course on which we are embarked.

A religion can no more afford to degrade its Devil than to degrade its God.

I'm not going to degrade women, and that's very anti-hip-hop.

The Italian culture and values have significantly shaped who I am, and I would never intentionally demean or degrade the very culture that has been so integral to my life.

People degrade themselves in order to make machines seem smart all the time.

So much of the habitat destruction and pollution is based on the simple principle that we somehow have been given free license over other species to degrade the planet.