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How they got Gary Cooper to do that one! To me, at least, it simply degrades the Medal of Honor. The whole story makes a mockery of America`s highest award for valor. The whole premise of the story was wrong, illogical, because they don`t pick the type of men the movie picked to win the award, and that can be proved by the very history of the award. - On They Came to Cordura (1959)

- John Wayne

My faith plays a huge role in what I do. It is the foundation for what I do and the decisions that I make as far as what I want to sing about and what I will or won`t do or will or won`t wear. I don`t want to do stuff for men`s magazines; I don`t really think that`s my audience who I`m trying to reach, and I feel like it kind of degrades women. There are things that I don`t want to be a part of I truly feel that this album is an expression of who I am. It is desperately an urban/R&B record, though with at least eight different writers and four producers, it show great diversity. I hope my peers can relate to it and understood that I am going through the same things as they are. - on her album

- Stacie Orrico

Junk is the ultimate merchandise. The junk merchant does not sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to the product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise, he degrades and simplifies the client.

- William S. Burroughs

Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.

- A'Quonesia Franklin

Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose.

- Alan Chambers

Even among the married, sexual satisfaction must not be sought in a way which disregards man`s character as a person and degrades him to the animal level.

- Alex Anderson