Denigrate Quotes
Quotes on tearing down versus building up
These quotes weigh the choice between actions that build life up and words that denigrate it, with several speakers careful not to belittle themselves. It's practical Advice on choosing words wisely.
To me, the drive for monumentality is as inbred as the desire for food and sex, regardless of how we denigrate it. Monuments differ in different periods. Each age has its own.
Let me say right off the bat that I'm not what you would call a 'tree hugger' or a 'bushes and bunnies' environmentalist out to save the planet or the whales - although I do not denigrate that perspective either,...
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I'm not saying anything to denigrate 'Criminal Minds'; that's a great show. I just didn't appreciate it anymore. I appreciate those people, but I realized my heart wasn't in and I needed to go because plenty of people would rip...
I'm not myself religious but have no wish to insult or denigrate those who are.
Action Quotes
I have not intended to denigrate or hurt the beliefs of anyone through my art.
My basis of morality is this: does this action enhance life, or does it denigrate life? Does it build up or does it tear down?
I think that what I do, in terms of how I craft my words rhetorically, is fairly simple stuff. I don't mean that to denigrate myself. I mean that in the sense of, when I write, the person that I...
I guess I get bored easily, and thank God. I don't want to all my life pound only the same key, although some artists do it very effectively. I'm not trying to denigrate anybody.
Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a...
Advice Quotes
If we can believe in our own value, then we won't try to denigrate and diss and just roast women all the time.
I find it reprehensible that anyone would seek to denigrate the legacy of Dr. King in any way.
We should never denigrate any other culture but rather help people to understand the relationship between their own culture and the dominant culture. When you understand another culture or language, it does not mean that you have to lose your...
Far be it from me to denigrate Senator McCain's advice on vice presidential nominees.
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'.
Age Quotes
There is hope for humanity, but in order for us to get there, we really have to interrogate not just what it takes to change laws, but what it takes to change culture that supports laws that uplift humanity and...
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One line frames morality itself around this test: does an Action enhance life or tear it down? Read our Appreciate quotes for the opposite side of that coin.
