“The wish to hear such baseness is degrading.”

“should it occur again, as we walk on, that we find ourselves where others of this crewfall into such petty wrangling and upbraiding. The wish to hear such baseness is degrading.”

“To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There'd be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god might wish to escape into sleep and be alive only in the unconscious projections of his dream-creatures.”

“...anyone wishing to hold office will be disqualified from being a candidate based on his desire to hold office.”

“The aim of the joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.”

“HOLLOW-TOOTH SYNDROME: Compulsion to torture oneself mentally, based on the fact that nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. ”