As we look to the future, we cannot improve our living standards while simultaneously degrading the natural environment around us.
Everything in American public life, when it comes to race relations, serves as a frame for a history of violence and degrading humiliation.
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.
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.
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.
You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you'd love to know what it's like, wouldn't you?
Yes, I've seen Louis CK. I wouldn't in any way make a degrading remark about Louis CK, but the question is do I think anyone is funny? And the answer is not too many people. He might fit right in there.
I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.
I didn't know about competition until I got to school. I didn't know how degrading it was to be graded until I got to school.
The human world is a long way from meeting the needs of the present, and it is borrowing massively from the future - not only by piling up money debt, but also by degrading the resources from which all real wealth ultimately comes.
