Famous quotes containing the word degrading:
“I think there’s something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It’s humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.”
—Christopher Hampton (b. 1946)
“But a compassion for that which is not and cannot be useful and lovely, is degrading and futile.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten. We can receive anything from love, for that is a way of receiving it from ourselves; but not from any one who assumes to bestow. We sometimes hate the meat which we eat, because there seems something of degrading dependence in living it.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)