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Downgrading Quotes

“Don't degrade your soul to the extent of believing in curses. No man can curse you except your maker.”

“No matter how valuable you are and your ideas, fools will certainly play both of you down, so exclude yourselves from the inflammatory environs of fools.”

“These are the attributes of Bullshit people; they will...blur your imagination, take your endowments for a piece of debris, make you ridiculous, and most importantly, you got to send them to the recycle bin.”

“What’s the point of making others feel bad about themselves?”

Questions Downgrading

Book:How to Be a Normal Person

Source: How to Be a Normal Person

“Those who make hostility a daily manner are often left in the lurch at difficult times.”

Hate Pride Self Love Shame Revenge Selfish Selfishness Hard Times Abandon Dislike Scorn Hostility Self Interest Disrespect Disregard Against Downgrading Shun

Author:Michael Bassey Johnson

“To the ideal of high consumption and the downgrading of spiritual values corresponds a conception of injustice that centers exclusively on the problem of consumption; and equality in consumption cannot be achieved except by violence.”

Problem Spiritual Values Violence Ideals Injustice Conception Consumption Consumerism Overconsumption Spiritual Values Downgrading

Author:Jacques Ellul

“The men liked to put me down as the best woman painter. I think I'm one of the best painters.”

Thinking Men Funny Women He Man Men And Women Painter Famous Artist Funny Women Downgrading

Author:Georgia O'Keeffe

“Ressentiment is always to some degree a determinant of the romantic type of mind. At least this is so when the romantic nostalgia for some past era (Hellas, the Middle Ages, etc.) is not primarily based on the values of that period, but on the wish to escape from the present. Then all praise of the “past” has the implied purpose of downgrading present-day reality.”

Mind Reality Age Past Purpose Values Wish Middle Type Periods Degrees Praise Nostalgia Eras Etc Middle Ages Present Day Implied Downgrading

Book:On Feeling, Knowing, and Valuing: Selected Writings

Source: On Feeling, Knowing, and Valuing: Selected Writings

“It was with the Industrial Revolution, as society plunged ever more eagerly into the conquest of material riches and bent all its energies to the accumulation of goods, that material poverty became a major problem. Obviously, this meant abandonment or downgrading of spiritual values, virtue, etc. To share or not to share in the increase of the collective wealth-this was the Number One question. It was the desire to acquire wealth that prompted the poor to start fighting.”

“What I believe is what I show, if I'm going to write a song about girls I don't want to do it in a way where I'm downgrading a girl.”

Ifs Way Want Writing Believe Shows Song Girl I Believe Downgrading

Author:Stan Walker

“The word 'living' has so many connotations that I'm almost reluctant to try to define it scientifically because it sounds as if I'm then downgrading all the other significances of that word.”

Ifs Trying Sound Significance Reluctant Connotation Downgrading

Author:Francis Collins

“Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.”

People Ifs Different Parent Women Taught Prejudice Backgrounds Bias Different Backgrounds Downgrading

Author:Barbara Bush

“Being humbled is always good for us, even if it doesn't feel good to us.”

Ifs Feels Feelings Goodness Hip Hop Humble Feel Good Rapper Be Humble Humiliated Downgrading

Author:LeCrae

“I love women. They're the best thing ever created. If they want to be like men and come down to our level, that's fine.”

“The victorious Christian neither exalts nor downgrades himself. His interests have shifted from self to Christ.”

Self God Christian Interest Christ Religious Unselfish Following Jesus Exaltation Christian Humility Downgrading

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer