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Degrading Quotes

On what strips away dignity.

This page collects quotes on what people find degrading, from air travel turned into 'an unpleasant and degrading experience' to the justice system's other side, described as 'dehumanizing and degrading and deforming.'

In Turkey, butchering was a low-class, degrading job. Now, thanks to me, all the kids want to become butchers.

Quotes by Salt Bae

Without no disrespect to any artist, there's a lot of degrading music out there as far as degrading the culture and degrading society as well. That's individuals that choose to make that kind of music.

Quotes by Rakim

Parallel to our vast strides in technology, there is a dangerous rise in unemployment, foreclosures, and degrading education. Millions of people are stricken with hopelessness and strife. Sadly, in the name of progress we have polluted the air, water, soil...

Quotes by Radhanath Swami

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.

Quotes by Nathan Deal

Education Quotes

An environmentalist can oppose factory farming because it's reckless stewardship. A conservative can oppose factory farming because it is destructive to small farmers and to the decent ethic of husbandry those farmers live by. A religious person can oppose factory...

Quotes by Matthew Scully

I can't believe, even in 'The Guardian,' people ask the questions, 'Where did ISIS come from?' 'How did this happen?' 'Why do young Muslim women go off to join them?' Maybe because we've been degrading their people since 1917. Maybe...

Quotes by Mark Rylance

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.

Quotes by Margaret Sanger

Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children.

Quotes by Leon Kass

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

Quotes by Keith Henson

End Quotes

To be on the other side of the law-and-order machine in this country is awful. It is dehumanizing and degrading and deforming. It fills you with a helpless rage because, once there, you can only make things worse for yourself...

Quotes by Keith Gessen

The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.

Quotes by Jane Rule

By disgracing and degrading the presidency of the United States, by fleeing the White House like a diseased cur, Richard Nixon broke the heart of the American Dream.

Quotes by Hunter S. Thompson

I think it's a very female trait to want to please men and to want to be considered the Cool Girl. And if you take that to the farthest reach, where you're actually selling yourself out and degrading yourself by...

Quotes by Gillian Flynn

If I didn't forgive the people who took me into the barracks and beat me unconscious over a period of days during the period when the British state was indicted for inhuman and degrading treatment in 1971-72, or even the...

Quotes by Gerry Adams

Life Quotes

As President, I will end once and for all the use of taxpayer funds to promote the National Endowment for the Arts and other programs that subsidize amoral and degrading activities.

Quotes by Gary Bauer

The chief characteristic of 'The Tribune' under Greeley was an aggressive and even ostentatious purity. 'Immoral and degrading police reports,' and any notices of the existence of the theater, whether in news or advertising, were at first scrupulously excluded.

Quotes by Elmer Davis

The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their captors, and the reports of acts of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and other acts of maltreatment shock the conscience.

Quotes by Ed Markey

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.

Quotes by Dorothea Dix

The human world is a long way from meeting the needs of the present, and it is borrowing massively from the future - not only by piling up money debt, but also by degrading the resources from which all real...

Quotes by Donella Meadows

Love Quotes

I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.

Quotes by Christopher Hampton

Frequently Asked Questions

What is this Degrading quotes collection about?
This page collects quotes about degradation - experiences, systems, or philosophies described as stripping away dignity. The lines span air travel, the justice system, science, and industrial farming.
Why do people search for quotes about degrading experiences?
People look for these quotes when writing about dignity, fairness, or systems that fail the people within them, since 'degrading' captures a specific kind of harm beyond simple inconvenience.
How do these quotes describe degradation in everyday travel?
One quote argues that airlines struggle partly because air travel has turned into such an unpleasant, degrading ordeal, tying poor treatment of passengers directly to business outcomes.
Do these quotes connect degradation to the justice system?
Yes, one quote describes standing opposite the justice system's enforcement side as dehumanizing and degrading, filling a person with helpless rage, presented as one documented perspective on that experience, related to Life quotes.
Is degradation discussed in relation to farming or the environment?
Yes, one quote notes that factory farming can be opposed both as reckless environmental stewardship and as destructive to small farmers and decent husbandry practices, framing degradation as a concern shared across different viewpoints.

Others link degradation to disrespect for human life and to industrial farming's effect on small farmers. See also Education and Life quotes.