I'm sorry, I'm not a performing monkey.
The United States should not engage in tit-for-tat polemics directed at its most important allies. That is as demeaning as it is destructive.
Blacks were so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.
I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.
Let me show you how it's done... Loser!
The public debate about evolution itself, as opposed to whether to teach it, is something else. It is boring, demeaning, and insufferably dull.
One of the things I hate about TV for kids is that it conescends to them.
Anne hated the idea of putting me down in front of the audience.
I would walk into a room, and people would be like, 'Hide the children. Here comes the guy with AIDS.' That's very demeaning, and it really hurts your spirit.
A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
You'd be surprised how condescending people can be.
It's very insulting when you're in charge and someone is talking down to you.
My friend was about to introduce me when she looked at me and smiled and said, "Whose little boy are you?"
There's only one thing people love more than their heroes, and that's stomping them into the ground.
It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.
I am going to sit there and watch Michael Phelps break my record anonymously? That's almost demeaning to me. It is not almost - it is.
There's a way about it: tearing people down, but not tearing them apart.
I mean, if you degrade someone, you isolate them, you control them, you call them names, you demean them. That's a horrible existence for people.
I complained about the gimmicks. All the nonsense and garbage. After a while I just said I would not wrestle with the guys wearing masks, or guys that had some get-up on. It was demeaning. I refuse to go onto the mat against a Christmas tree.
Sometimes I find some movies patronizing, which I feel is the ultimate crime.
I turn a lot of jobs down because they are patronising.
I found it really difficult when teachers talked down to me.
In India, when someone calls you sexy, they don't mean it as a compliment; it has derogatory connotations.
Watching a person lose their dignity used to be uncomfortable, and now it's an expected part of the program that we're becoming comfortable with.
