Debasing Quotes

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. - Gore Vidal

Only for the phony is commercialism-the bending of creativity to common utility-a naughty word. To the truly creative, it is a bridge to the great audience, a means of sharing rather than debasing. - Ernest A Jones

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