Quotes with degrade

  • What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant ''well-being,'' and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.

Quotes 1 till 10 of 10.

  • Aristotle All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
    - +
     0
  • Søren Kierkegaard How ironical that it is by means of speech that man can degrade himself below the level of dumb creation - for a chatterbox is truly of a lower category than a dumb creature.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
    - +
     0
  • Booker T. Washington I will not permit any man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
    - +
     0
  • Booker T. Washington I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
    Up From Slavery (1901)
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
    - +
     0
  • George Orwell The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
    - +
     0
  • Oscar Wilde The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
    - +
     0
  • William Blake The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
    - +
     0
  • William Blake Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
    - +
     0
  • John Ruskin What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant ''well-being,'' and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
    - +
     0
  • Frederick Douglass Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
    Frederick Douglass
    African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator and writer (1818 - 1895)
    - +
     0
All degrade famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com