Quotes on Degrade

Money degrades all the gods of man and converts them into commodities.

Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with a purpose for which it was not made for, and in this way we may degrade it.

It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

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

I've no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven and if the wicked man in there had not brought Heathcliff so low I shouldn't have thought of it. It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now so he shall never know how I love him and that not because he's handsome Nelly but because he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of his and mine are the same and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning or frost from fire.

As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.

Let's make two things clear: Isil is not "Islamic." No religion condones the killing of innocents, and the vast majority of Isil's victims have been Muslim. And Isil is certainly not a state.

Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.

But to manipulate men, to propel them toward goals which you-the social reformers-see, but they may not, is to deny their human essence, to treat them as objects without wills of their own, and therefore to degrade them.

He shall never know how I love him: and that, not because he's handsome, Nelly, but because he is more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

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

If you want to make information stick, it's best to learn it, go away from it for a while, come back to it later, leave it behind again, and once again return to it - to engage with it deeply across time. Our memories naturally degrade, but each time you return to a memory, you reactivate its neural network and help to lock it in.

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

During the last decades, films about the black experience have been produced, directed, and even scripted by white men. Some of them are excellent. But most reflect George Bernard Shaw’s warning that 'if you do not tell your stories others will tell them for you and they will vulgarize and degrade you.'

The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest.

If you've got the platform and the ability to make a difference, then this goes beyond 'should' and reaches the level of 'must.' You must make a difference or you squander the opportunity. Wasting the opportunity both degrades your own ability to contribute and, more urgently, takes something away from the rest of us.

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

Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose.

Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles.

My meaning is, that no man can expect his children to respect what he degrades.