Quotes About Degradation

White women who were raped were expected to die as a result of their abuse. Their degradation was expected to be totalizing, making postrape life unimaginable. But black female slaves survived their rapes and continued the work they were forced to do—a circumstance used as evidence that they were not properly feminine.11 According

Emotional abuse systematically degrades, diminishes, and can eventually destroy the personhood of the abused.

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 hard to conceive of the utter demoralization, of the political blindness and immorality, of the patriotic dishonesty, of the cruelty and degradation of a people who supplemented the incomparable Declaration of Independence with the Fugitive Slave Law.

Our sentimentality toward animals is a sure sign of the disdain in which we hold them. Sentimentality is nothing but the infinitely degraded form of bestiality, the racist commiseration.

A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty. No, it is not possible that minds degraded by a multitude of futile concerns would ever raise themselves to anything great. Even when they had the strength for that, the courage would be missing.

He was an abomination precisely because they saw his humanity, but degraded it and would not recognize it.

Christians must go beyond criticizing the degradation of American culture, roll up their sleeves, and get to work on positive solutions. The only way to drive out bad culture is with good culture.

You have stripped from me the rank and privileges of the professorship and the doctoral degree which I earned, and you have set me at the level of the lowest criminal.

Why is it that scuba divers and surfers are some of the strongest advocates of ocean conservation? Because they've spent time in and around the ocean, and they've personally seen the beauty, the fragility, and even the degradation of our planet's blue heart.

The more I think on the present condition of woman, the more am I oppressed with the reality of their degradation.

Since I'm essentially optimistic, I can't imagine a world in which man is totally decimated or degraded.

A foolish picture I live in disgust, degradation being eaten by lust.

... motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.

You may or may not have noticed an overall degradation of the language, and a proliferation of errors of spelling and grammar in even the most official documents?

geek, a drunkard driven so low that he would bite off the heads of chickens and snakes just to get the booze he needed.

this furtive childhood, this concealed degradation is ready to explode your systems sooner or later.

Imagination succumbs to the general degradation of phantasy. To free it for the construction of a more beautiful and happier world remains the prerogative of children and fools.

Southwark whores bawling out their prices like butchers selling dead flesh.

Crees que yo planeé tu humillación? —Se ríe—. ¿Yo? Eso implicaría esforzarse.

She'd never really existed to him. She was of no consequence in his life. He was married to a beautiful woman. Jane was pornography. Jane was the adult movie that didn't appear on his hotel bill. Jane was Internet porn, where every fetish can be fulfilled. You have a fetish for humiliating fat girls? Enter your credit card number and click right here.

Understanding the spirit of our institutions to aim at the elevation of men, I am opposed to whatever tends to degrade them.

The work of bestial degradation, begun by the victorious Germans, had been carried to its conclusion by the Germans in defeat.

The male has a negative Midas Touch -- everything he touches turns to shit.