Top 210 Degrading Quotes & Sayings

Everything in American public life, when it comes to race relations, serves as a frame for a history of violence and degrading humiliation.

The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.

War with all its glorification of brute force is essentially a degrading thing.

Revolution means democracy in today's world, not the enslavement of peoples to the corrupt and degrading horrors of totalitarianism

You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you'd love to know what it's like, wouldn't you?

It can be argued that rapists deserve to be raped, that mutilators deserve to be mutilated. Most societies, however, refrain from responding in this way because the punishment is not only degrading to those on whom it is imposed, but it is also degrading to the society that engages in the same behavior as the criminals.

I don't find anything upsetting or gross or degrading about fighting with a mental illness: Bipolar or Schizophrenia.

Political commercials encourage the deceptive, the destructive and the degrading.

The sight of one's own heart is degrading; people are not meant to look inward - that's why they've been given bodies, to hide their souls.

As we look to the future, we cannot improve our living standards while simultaneously degrading the natural environment around us.

We just need a strong female perspective, especially in the world now...when the degrading of women has become such a popular thing.

All forced virtue is degrading in it effect.

In Turkey, butchering was a low-class, degrading job. Now, thanks to me, all the kids want to become butchers.

Those who are determined to be 'offended' will discover a provocation somewhere. We cannot possibly adjust enough to please the fanatics, and it is degrading to make the attempt.

The thing we've learned from the last 20 years of counterterrorism is the significant value you get from removing leadership from the battlefield in degrading the organization.

I am liberating man from the degrading chimera known as `conscience'.

In the morning I had decided that henceforth I only cared for easy loves. It is so degrading to have to persuade people into liking one, or one's works.

Our government is printing money, and it's degrading the living standard of every person in America. It's the cause of frustration, anger, and confusion.

You're never the same. You're degrading, or you're getting better. You don't stay the same.

But a compassion for that which is not and cannot be useful and lovely, is degrading and futile.

The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.

The whole question of evolution seems less momentous than it did, because, unlike the Victorians, we do not feel that to be descended from animals is degrading to human dignity.

Authority is quite degrading.

There's no reason in the world why black [people] should not be regarded as an attribute that is not degrading but is positive. There's no reason in the world why any person should think that white is degrading.

No. I think they're the idiot people and I'm the normal person. But I don't really go to parties where...I don't really have drunk friends. My friends are kind of adult; they have a drink. But they hold their liquor. I think it's incredibly embarrassing when people are drunk. It just looks so ridiculous. I find it very degrading. I think, oh, you're really degrading yourself right now, to be this pissed out in public.

I don't find the idea of sewing degrading. A thing is degrading when you are forced to do it, through economic reasons or through slavery or some other form of compulsion.

When I say that asian women are beautiful it's not a sexual thing. I'm not being degrading, I find them sexually repulsive.

Ignorance is degrading only when found in company with great riches.

There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one's means of livelihood.

Digital sound is damaging music; it's damaging the artists. It's so degrading.

We live in the digital age, and unfortunately it's degrading our music, not improving.

The whole constitution of property on its present tenures, is injurious, and its influence on persons deteriorating and degrading.

There is nothing unholy or degrading about sexuality in itself, for by that means men and women join in a process of creation and in an expression of love

For tens of millions of people [television] has become habit-forming, brain-softening, taste-degrading.

Vicious habits are so odious and degrading that they transform the individual who practices them into an incarnate demon.

...I will not be a sight gag for anybody. I will not do anything degrading to myself or other fat people.

OK, I will never say anything degrading or bad about Tom Brady. He is a god in cleats.

Extreme poverty is not only a condition of unsatisfied material needs. It is often accompanied by a degrading state of powerlessness.

I come from a generation where I did not have any knowledge about racism, trolling or degrading someone because we hardly used to do it to other people.

If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading experience.

A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.

Real progress cannot be measured by money alone. We must ensure that economic growth contributes to our quality of life, rather than degrading it

I want to be indifferent to vengeance. It's degrading. Not having a spirit of vengeance protects me, internally.

We counsel you, young men, not to pollute your minds with such degrading matter, for the mind through which this filth passes is never the same afterwards. Don't see R-rated movies or vulgar videos or participate in any entertainment that is immoral, suggestive, or pornographic. Don't listen to music that is degrading

Girls can wear jeans and cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots cause it's okay to be a boy. But for a boy to look like a girl is degrading cause you think being a girl is degrading

Girls can wear jeans and cut their hair short and wear shirts and boots because it's okay to be a boy; for girls it's like promotion. But for a boy to look like a girl is degrading, according to you, because secretly you believe that being a girl is degrading.

Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children.

I don't see anything degrading about marriage or homemaking, but my husband and I pool the money we earn, along with the jobs around the house.

For me, as a kid desperate to make music, I thought the only way I could do it was to try to be a superstar - which is a fun thing to be, but it can be exhausting and degrading.

To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.

What plethora of material goods can possibly atone for a waking life so humanly belittling, if not degrading, as the push-button tasks left to human performers?

The real demon is success-the anxieties engendered by this quest are relentless, degrading, corroding. What is worse, there is no end to this escalation of desire.

I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.

The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.

Fate! This four letter little word gave the biggest harm to mankind! We must totally get rid of this degrading concept of primitiveness!

Without no disrespect to any artist, there's a lot of degrading music out there as far as degrading the culture and degrading society as well. That's individuals that choose to make that kind of music.

There's not enough money in this world to make me do something degrading.

My greatest hope is that we transcend the most fearful thing, which is that we are rapidly degrading the ecological systems on this planet that support everything we are doing and all life on it.

Confession of one's guilt purifies and uplifts. Its suppression is degrading and should always be avoided.

The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding.