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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.
Hunter S. Thompson
Heart
Richard Nixon
White
White House
Presidency
States
Broke
Nixon
Dream
Degrading
Like
House
American
Diseased
American Dream
Richard
Fleeing
United
United States
After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world.
Billy Sunday
Politics
Family
You
Business
World
Old
Everything
Degrading
Touch
Individual
Said
Traffic
Liquor
Influence
After
Old World
The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.
Thomas Jefferson
Master
Other
Imitate
Our
Despotism
Degrading
See
Part
Between
Most
Learn
Exercise
Passions
Perpetual
Submissions
Commerce
Children
Boisterous
Whole
Slave
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.
Dorothea Dix
Crime
Petty
Degrading
Habits
Miseries
Attendant
Indolence
Opens
Errors
Train
Dependence
Vice
Create
Many
I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.
Ferdinand Marcos
Run
Degrading
Argue
Demeaning
Always
Am
Very
Refused
Lady
Against
Ashamed
Girls can wear jeans, cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots, 'cause it's okay to be a boy, but for a boy to look like a girl is degrading.
Charlotte Gainsbourg
Cause
Girl
Hair
Okay
Boots
Degrading
Wear
Like
Look
Boy
Shirts
Short
Cut
Jeans
You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you'd love to know what it's like, wouldn't you?
Charlotte Gainsbourg
Love
You
Girl
Think
Secretly
Degrading
Like
Know
Being
Being A Girl
I know what it's like to be growing up, called 'deaf and mute' and 'deaf and dumb.' They're words that are very degrading and demeaning to people who are deaf and hard of hearing. It's almost... it's almost libelous, if you want to say that.
Marlee Matlin
You
People
Words
Say
Degrading
Mute
Almost
Demeaning
Like
Know
Deaf
Dumb
Hearing
Up
Very
Want
Hard
Who
Growing
Growing Up
I want to be indifferent to vengeance. It's degrading. Not having a spirit of vengeance protects me, internally.
Segolene Royal
Me
Degrading
Spirit
Indifferent
Having
Vengeance
Protects
Want
There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief.
Barbara Castle
People
Law
Welfare
Humiliating
State
Relief
Degrading
Rely
Had
Mainly
Welfare State
Test
Provided
Very
Poor
Means
Receiving
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
You
Husband
Think
Humiliating
Degrading
About
Something
Having
Rival
Fail
Commonplace
Succeed
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.
Ed Markey
Humiliating
Other
Photographs
Degrading
Sexual
Physical
Abuse
Prisoners
Subjected
Iraqi
Shock
Reports
Being
Acts
Conscience
Treatment
Cruelty to men and to the lower animals as well, which would have passed unnoticed a century ago, now shocks the sensibilities and is regarded as wicked and degrading.
Elihu Root
Men
Animals
Cruelty
Wicked
Unnoticed
Would
Degrading
Well
Passed
Shocks
Regarded
Sensibilities
Which
Century
Lower
Now
The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Women
Church
Degree
Degrading
Contemptuous
Regard
Teaching
Whole
Tone
Last
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.
Elmer Davis
News
Police
First
Aggressive
Characteristic
Immoral
Degrading
Purity
Excluded
Advertising
Were
Existence
Chief
Reports
Any
Whether
Theater
Notices
Even
Ostentatious
There's not enough money in this world to make me do something degrading.
Fabio Lanzoni
Me
World
Money
Enough
Enough Money
Degrading
Something
Make
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.
Gary Bauer
Will
National
Taxpayer
Other
Programs
President
Once
Promote
Degrading
End
Subsidize
Arts
Endowment
Use
Activities
Amoral
Funds
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 guys who shot me, if you don't forgive them, you end up with unnecessary baggage.
Gerry Adams
Me
You
People
State
Took
Unnecessary
Degrading
Indicted
Guys
Beat
Unconscious
Baggage
Over
Days
Period
End
Up
Forgive
Them
Shot
Who
Inhuman
Even
British
Treatment
The Latin root of 'precariousness' is 'to obtain by prayer.' The precariat must ask for favours, for charity, to show obsequiousness, to plead with figures of authority. It is degrading and stigmatizing.
Guy Standing
Prayer
Charity
Plead
Latin
Must
Degrading
Favours
Obtain
Authority
Ask
Root
Show
Figures
The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.
Jane Rule
Love
Education
Women
Other
Our
Liberation
Ourselves
Degrading
Message
Against
Each
Digital sound is damaging music; it's damaging the artists. It's so degrading.
Jimmy Iovine
Music
Digital
Degrading
Sound
Artists
Damaging
Google, Facebook, and other consumer web companies violate our privacy. But that's only because they have an ad-based business model. They can only make money by selling your data - and degrading the product experience with ads.
Jose Ferreira
Privacy
Business
Facebook
Experience
Money
Google
Other
Our
Degrading
Web
Data
Only
Ads
Consumer
Make
Because
Selling
Model
Business Model
Product
Your
Companies
Violate
For me, as a kid desperate to make music, I thought the only way I could do it was to try to be a superstar - which is a fun thing to be, but it can be exhausting and degrading.
Justin Tranter
Music
Me
Try
Desperate
Thought
Way
Kid
Degrading
Only
Superstar
Could
Make
Exhausting
Which
Fun
Fun Thing
Thing
I don't find anything upsetting or gross or degrading about fighting with a mental illness: Bipolar or Schizophrenia.
Kangana Ranaut
Schizophrenia
Fighting
Bipolar
Find
Degrading
About
Mental
Mental Illness
Upsetting
Anything
Gross
Illness
Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children.
Leon Kass
Parents
Relation
Degrading
Parenthood
Between
Like
Looks
Cloning
Children
Perversion
Right
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.
Margaret Sanger
Love
Woman
Marriage
Submission
Earth
Degrading
Finer
Without
Contrary
Sensibility
Body
Notwithstanding
Her
Desire
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