Such praise coming from so degraded a source, was degrading to me, its recipient. - Cicero
..each bloodletting hastens the next, and as the value of human life is degraded and violence becomes tolerated, the unimaginable becomes more conceivable. - Bill Clinton
The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades. - Mark Twain
The core of my being is the trigger for the choices I make. With each choice, my personality is enhanced or degraded. - Bidemi Mark-Mordi
We shall convince France and the world, that we are not a degraded people, humiliated under a colonial spirit of fear and a sense of inferiority, fitted to be the miserable instruments of foreign influence, and regardless of national honor, character, and interest. - John Adams