Demeaning Quotes

“Art creates new dimensions, opens our scope, and transcends us from demeaning "pettiness" that haunts the minds of emotionally underprivileged people. ("When is Art?")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“A pure heart does not demean the spirit of an individual, it, instead, compels the individual to examine his spirit.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“A man does not have to feel less than human to realize his sin; oppositely, he has to realize that he gets no special vindication for his sin.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“The sun never has an inferiority complex. It shines the same whether above or below.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“People who take you for granted would be mad at those who regard you as something.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes

“Let me tell you humans something. You are not fighters. You don’t have what it takes to actually change your current living situations. You can’t even organize a decent group to combat oppression. How can beings of such low stature hope to do anything? You are not heroes. Stop pretending you are helping by playing commando and get out of the way of someone who can.”
― Charles Lee, The Way To Dawn: Dominion of Eden

“Reasoning with senselessness will never build faith. Faith is strengthened when you stop collecting fragmented signs and questionable hunches, in order to build an acceptable reason for your wrong decisions and less than desirable circumstances.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“In your daily life, let your destined visions be farther than your gifted sight and your ultimate joy be vibrant than your demeaning worries. Think big, dream big.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“Value those who give you constructive criticism, because without them doing so, you will never reach the peak of what you are do.”
― Unarine Ramaru

“When people can't cope with who you've become, they will try to remind you of who you once were.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“They're a pack of dimpled fuckwits and you can tell them I said so.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger

“People are inherently dignified, and they are only made undignified if they are placed in situations that are demeaning.”
― Ira Byock, Dying Well: Peace and Possibilities at the End of Life

“It is no longer the case, if it ever was, that capitalism can be construed as a peaceful, lawful, and non-coercive system.”
― David Harvey, The Anti-Capitalist Chronicles