Poverty does not produce unhappiness: It produces degradation. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
New media are new archetypes, at first disguised as degradations of older media. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Pardon me, dear human self, capable of the most heinous degradation, capable of soaring. — Sena Jeter Naslund Copy Share Image
I know of no other book that so fully teaches the subjection and degradation of women. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Why do people think that we’re degraded when we’re examining positions of degradation, or examining the cycle of our own degradation? — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
“This abattement and degradation did not take place all at once; it was brought about by degrees” — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
No one should dogmatize about the capacity of human nature for degradation or exaltation. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
...only the unscrupulous or shortsighted can defend pollution and degradation of the countryside. — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Please don't invent a debt that does not exist, or next you will be trying to feel gratitude - and that is… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act of 2004 helps address the continuing degradation on the broadcast airwaves and helps send a clear message… — Mike Rogers Copy Share Image
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in...We should be thankful we cannot see… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
The degradation of our environment is undeniably a direct result of our lack of regard, lack of accountability, and lack of responsibility. — Nikki Reed Copy Share Image
Policies are being pursued that place on the same level a multi-child family and a same-sex partnership, a faith in God and… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
When a religion or ideology becomes dominant, the lack of controls will result in widening spirals of license leading to degradation and… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
It is very expensive to achieve high unreliability. It is not uncommon to increase the cost of an item by a factor… — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
I'm no expert on pornography. The core element of it, I think, is degradation of women, whatever else goes on. I don't… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“How many we know who have fled the sweetness of a tranquil life in their homes, among the friends, to seek the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do you know how much energy, how many powers, how many forces, are still lurking behind that frame of yours? What scientist… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The philosophy of Atheism represents a concept of life without any metaphysical Beyond or Divine Regulator. It is the concept of an… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In a nuclear age, and in an age of serious environmental degradation, apocalyptic belief creates a serious second order danger. The precarious… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
When language in common use in any country becomes irregular and depraved, it is followed by their ruin and degradation. For what… — John Milton Copy Share Image
... bringing up daughters for nothing but marriage, mingles poison in the cup of domestic life, is traitorous to the virtue of… — Harriot Kezia Hunt Copy Share Image
How can a man find a sensible way to live? One way and one only- Philosophy. And my philosophy means keeping that… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
In an age of interdependence, global citizenship - based on trust and sense of shared responsibility - is a crucial pillar of… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation; it cannot be classified as… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“A third emotional source of the defense forces is the sadistic conception of sexuality that the children of all patriarchal cultural circles… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
but as he plodded along a vague and almost hallucinatory pall hazed over his mind; he found himself at one point, with… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
If the impure and the unjust, the drunkard and the licentious, are loathsome to us, what must be the infinite loathing of… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
What the new fertilizer technology has accomplished for the farmer is clear: more crop can be produced on less acreage than before.… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
Wait, we can not break bread with you. You have taken the land which is rightfully ours. Years from now my people… — Paul Rudnick Copy Share Image
Each person decides in early childhood how he will live and how he will die... His trivial behavior may be decided by… — Eric Berne Copy Share Image
