Downgrading Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.