A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.
Muhammed Iqbal

Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose.
Carrie P. Snow

As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
Annie Dillard

Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.
George Sand

Even among the married, sexual satisfaction must not be sought in a way which disregards man's character as a person and degrades him to the animal level.
Francis Arinze

It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.
Susan Sontag

Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
Boethius

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

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.
Simone Weil

Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.
Walt Whitman

Women have the right to say: this is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades.
Tillie Olsen