Demeaning Quotations

I'd find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets.

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.

If there were more temple work done in the Church, there would be less of selfishness, less of contention, less of demeaning others.

Strangely, charity sometimes gets dismissed, as if it is ineffective, inappropriate or even somehow demeaning to the recipient. 'This isn't charity,' some donors take pains to claim, 'This is an investment.' Let us recognize charity for what it is at heart: a noble enterprise aimed at bettering the human condition.

For Democrats to reduce women to beggars for cheap government-funded birth control is demeaning to the women that I know who are far more complicated than their libido and the management of their reproductive system.

Obama's pop-cultural focus may seem demeaning to the office of the presidency. It may be mockable. But it is also tremendously effective.

Would people still use the same demeaning language talking about European gypsies or immigrants? It is fundamentally an old, 19th-century throwback to the idea that that these people are somehow like our ancestors, or backward. It conveys that they are somehow not as intelligent as we are; that they haven't progressed as far as we have. It is fundamentally a colonial mentality.

We needed a fresh, new start. That's not demeaning anyone else, I just felt Mike was the right man at this time.

There is no discipline equal to service to smother the ego and to fill the heart with genuine joy. To condemn service as demeaning and inferior is to forego these benefits.

Well, anything that's demeaning towards any of the players I think is bad. You've got to look at it as bad if they are talking about you. You've still got to come out here and focus. Do your job. It's an unfortunate thing that happened, but you live with it and move on.

the demeaning treatment Anita Hill received before the all-male committee.

But she is young, and it takes courage and stamina to organize that effort with one's creditors. It will be success from a position of strength, not a demeaning negotiation for reprieve.

I've seen people glaze over when they're confronted with racism, and there's nothing more, you know, damning and demeaning to having any kind of ideology than people just walking the walk and saying what they're supposed to say and nodding, and nobody feels anything.

Some people want to make it a race thing. I don't. That's demeaning to me.

Demeaning is in the eye of the beholder.

It's absurd to try to police demeaning speech. That's not what a free society does.

It's very difficult to do an honest appraisal of a lot of people's personal and professional performance without demeaning them, and to do it fairly and in hindsight.

It's silly and demeaning to rate teachers using only the poorly defined 'learning gains' on the FCAT.

It's been going on here forever. You hope guys ... look at what happened just last year and see where they are. There were guys last year who were good enough to have an opportunity, but didn't get to walk in their freshman year and play. It's something we talk about, but not in a demeaning way.

The US has a pretty good record of falling into this trap. The Bush administration has so overused the Hitler analogy that it's almost demeaning to history.

I know who I am and can deal with the use of Indian mascots, ... But I know it can be demeaning to a group of people. Maybe it would be all right if they were truly honoring the people and are giving due respect to the people they are representing.

I must confess that since the first time I heard myself referred to as a whistle-blower, I cringed, and I am still uneasy with that term. It sounds demeaning. Demeaning for so noble a cause.

Because Coach Portland thought that I was gay, I was treated in a very demeaning manner, ... Coach Portland created an offensive, hostile and intimidating learning environment for players she believed were gay. She created divisiveness on the team by instructing players not to associate with other players she believed to be gay, or they would be kicked off the team also. Coach Portland's final insult was to exclude me from the 2004-2005 Awards Banquet, which all of my 2004-2005 Lady Lion basketball teammates were invited to attend.

I don't think they would attack a man this way, ... They're demeaning what she has achieved in her life. It's an over-the-top attack that I don't believe you'd see on a man or a married woman.

I don't like holding this sign. It's demeaning and I hate it with all the teas in China.

It was demeaning to scrape affection from virtually everyone you encountered. That was immature.

Scientific rationalism is the crowning glory of the human spirit.