Oscar Wilde
Writer
"All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised."
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Degrading
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Oscar Wilde
Writer
"Authority is quite degrading."
William S. Burroughs
Writer
"A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"The whole constitution of property on its present tenures, is injurious, and its influence on persons deteriorating and degrading."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"But a compassion for that which is not and cannot be useful and lovely, is degrading and futile."
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"We live in the digital age, and unfortunately it's degrading our music, not improving."
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