“Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.”
“The aim of the joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.”
“Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defense?”
“...'cause humans, above all, fear intelligence. how humans, scared out of their minds, gather whatever intelligence they can put their hands on and put it all in a central penitentiary named facts...”
“When you hear people in church, debasing themselves and saying that they are miserable sinners, and all the rest of it, it seems contemptible and not worthy of self-respecting human beings.”
“Every desired renewal of an existence is debased by being half alloy.”