Quotes About Degrading

We have to understand in value what the services of nature are so that we can understand that degrading them is an irreplaceable resource that no amount of money or human ingenuity can replace.

I go to a lot of movies where people are all around me laughing, and I feel like I'm from outer space because I find it dangerous and stupid and horrible and degrading to women and all these things.

Indulged habits of dependence create habits of indolence, and indolence opens the portal to petty errors, to many degrading habits, and to vice and crime with their attendant train of miseries.

The worry isn't that the women won't survive; quite the contrary. The worry is that they might come and say that [prostitution] isn't such a dreadful job after all. And not only because all work is degrading, difficult, and demanding, but because plenty of men are never as affectionate as when they are with a whore.

There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one's means of livelihood…. Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

The rest of the evening I wondered, every second, if he would come back with some friends and make something painful and degrading happen.

After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world.

Nobody blamed the credulity and avarice of the people—the degrading lust of gain…or the infatuation which had made the multitude run their heads with such frantic eagerness into the net held out for them by scheming projectors.

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

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.

Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.

Fox, in many ways ours is a degrading job-of-work. Custom makes monsters of us all. Do you ever feel like that about it, Fox? No, I don't think you do. You are too nice-minded.

The anarchy that threatens a degrading society is not its punishment, but its remedy.

For Rousseau, 'the word finance is a slave's word' and freedom turns into a commodity, degrading buyer and seller alike, wherever commerce reigns. 'Financial systems make venal souls.' Their secret workings are a 'means of making pilferers and traitors, and of putting freedom and the public good upon the auction block'.

Still, we may hesitate to accept an unpleasant reality because we feel that by accepting, we condone something that is intolerable. But this is not the case. As it says so eloquently in One Day at a Time in Al-Anon (ODAT), Acceptance does not mean submission to a degrading situation.