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Quotes About Degrades

Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
~ Boethius
It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.
~ Susan Sontag
Suffering degrades, embitters and enrages.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
An epithet or metaphor drawn from nature ennobles art; an epithet or metaphor drawn from art degrades nature.
~ Samuel Johnson
Widowhood imposed by religion or custom is an unbearable yoke and defiles the home by secret vice and degrades religion.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The men who made the war were profuse in their praises of the man who kicked the P.M. out of his office and now degrades by his disloyal, dishonest and lying presence the greatest office in the State.
~ John Burns
When the creators of software-based products examine their handiwork, they overlook how bad it is. Instead, they see its awesome power and flexibility. They see how rich the product is in features and functions. They ignore how excruciatingly difficult it is to use, how many mind-numbing hours it takes to learn, or how it diminishes and degrades the people
~ Alan Cooper
Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.
~ George Sand
The decision to give an indicative date for a return is a mistake. It degrades the process. It degrades human life.
~ David Trimble
Guilt once harbored in the conscious breast, intimidates the brave, degrades the great.
~ Samuel Johnson
How guilt once harbour'd in the conscious breast , Intimidates the brave, degrades the great.
~ Samuel Johnson
I think, as a tire manufacturer, you need to deliver a product that, up to a certain specification, needs to hold the loads and the speed. But you want a tire which degrades in performance so the races are not boring, while at the same time, you want it to have peak performance. All together is a very difficult task.
~ Toto Wolff
Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
~ Boethius
But very few ordeals are redemptive and I doubt if the descent into hell teaches anything new. It can only hasten processes which are already in existence, and usually this just means that it degrades. You see, in hell one lacks the energy for any good change. This indeed is the meaning of hell.
~ Iris Murdoch
it is simply a process that degrades and consumes the low entropy of food; it is a self-structured disordering, no more and no less than in the rest of the universe.
~ Carlo Rovelli
A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.
~ Muhammad Iqbal
War may make a fool of man, but it by no means degrades him; on the contrary, it tends to exalt him, and its net effects are much like those of motherhood on women.
~ H. L. Mencken
The preaching that ignores the doctrine of Hell lowers the holiness of God and degrades the work of Christ.
~ Paul Stewart
There is nothing derogatory in any employment which ministers to the well-being of the race. It is the spirit that is carried into an employment that elevates or degrades it.
~ Horace Mann
Servitude degrades men even to making them love it
~ Vauvenargues