Victor Hugo

A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debased humanity; it is a higher society and a more elevated humanity at which I am aiming - a society without kings, a humanity without barriers.

French Author

Shelby Steele

Blacks had survived every form of human debasement with ingenuity, self-reliance, a deep and ironic humor, a capacity for self-reinvention and a heroic fortitude. But we had no experience of wide-open freedom.

American Author

Emma Tennant

The fascination of somebody with original creative gifts is something that's always drawn me. I get attached to them, but I can't call it being in love, because the words are so debased.

British Novelist

Muriel Rukeyser

Editors have grown timid... a brave advance is almost inevitably followed by quick back-tracking, generally by dilution and debasement of the original intention.

American Poet

Gore Vidal

The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.

American Novelist

Patrick Henry

Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?

American Politician

Mary Astell

The Soul debases her self, when she sets her affections on any thing but her creator.

English Writer

Genesis P-Orridge

To sell yourself is somewhat debasing, and everyone is selling something.

English Musician

Simone Weil

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

French Philosopher

Prince

All you see on television are debased images.

American Singer

The word 'debase' implies a negative change, suggesting ethical or moral decline.

Negative Connotation

'Debase' often indicates a deliberate action to reduce something's quality.

Intentional Act

Can apply to abstract concepts, like honor, not just physical objects.

Non-physical Entities

'Debase' is historically used to describe reducing the purity of currency.

Monetary Context

Implies physical mixtures or alterations leading to reduced quality.

Physical Alterations

Stresses on the negative impact of adding inferior materials.

Material Importance

 and his attempt to pay for it by debasing the coinage led to constant inflation. The lords and landowners responded by removing access to common pastures and turning the peasant population into beggars. Beggars who would soon become yeomen farmers. The enclosures made farming more efficient, and created a labor surplus

History vs. Henry VIII -...

 same place the deep me to debase exploit and oppress groups of humans so call me crazy but I propose to address the crux of America's race problem at large to address in specific the troubling product of race known as black on black

Should “blackness”...

 and that made him less likely to seek help from others. He had experienced triggering events at the school that left him feeling debased and humiliated and mad.