Adrienne Rich

The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.

American Poet

Yvette Mimieux

There are tribes in Africa who believe that a camera steals a little part of your soul, and in a way, I think that's true about living your private life in public. It takes something away from your relationships; it cheapens them.

American Actress

Kristen Stewart

I wouldn't tell you anything about anybody I cared about because it becomes entertainment for other people, and it sort of just cheapens everything in your life. I would never tell you if I was dating anybody.

Henry Charles Carey

The natural consequence of our submission, even in part, to the system that looks to compelling the export of raw products, the exhaustion of the land, the cheapening of labour, and the export of the labourer.

American Economist

Michael Lee-Chin

If people perceive themselves as having very little opportunities to be fulfilled, then it cheapens their life and outlook. The solution is to reverse it; make sure they know opportunities abound.

Jamaican Businessman

Mel Gibson

I don't have to be working every moment. Why turn something good into a hard job? It's more special when it's not a daily occurrence. It doesn't cheapen it so much.

Actor

Andy Grammer

When I hear an interview that I've done, and I've said 'like' a bunch of times, it just cheapens the sentiment.

American Musician

Greta Garbo

Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them.

Swedish Actress

John Bolton

The Nobel Peace Prize has become hopelessly politicized. I think it cheapens the prize itself.

American Statesman

David Starr Jordan

No one is really miserable who has not tried to cheapen life.

American Writer

Using 'cheapen' implies criticism and suggests lowering dignity or quality, not just value.

Negative Connotation

When 'cheapen' is used, it often evokes feelings of offense, as it can attack one’s sense of worth.

Emotional Impact

'Cheapen' is suitable for casual speech when discussing intangible things like moments or feelings.

Informal Contexts

'Cheapen' refers to financial reduction in a business or economic context, often involving strategy.

Economic Focus

Implies making processes more efficient to cut costs without stressing inferior quality.

Efficiency Implications

 on the many days that he would come to school without any lunch of his own. And over time, as things happen, I lost the toy, but I never forgot the lesson and especially how it made me feel. My friend's father had rewarded kindness without cheapening it,

James Rhee: The value of...

 they're not gorillas any more than any of us are they're human beings the first way to open the door to brutalizing people in anyone any place is to cheapen their worth as human beings and when I