There appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations. — Aga Khan IV Copy Share Image
Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment. — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
Man the law-giver will have to pay a dreadful penalty for the degradation he has imposed upon the so called weaker sex. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Man cannot degrade woman without himself falling into degradation; he cannot elevate her without at the same time elevating himself. — Alexander Walker Copy Share Image
“To believers, the bible is a holy book, to unbelievers, it is a story book.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
DEGRADATION, n. One of the stages of moral and social progress from private station to political preferment. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Speaking like this doesn't mean that we're anti-white, but it does mean we're anti-exploitation, we're anti-degradation, we're anti-oppression. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The fact is that every war suffers a kind of progressive degradation with every month that it continues, because such things as… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I had great memories of growing up in a working class estate. I remember it being sunny all the time. So we're… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
It is the system, rather than individuals, that is the source of pollution and degradation. My prison-house environment is but another manifestation… — Alexander Berkman Copy Share Image
There can be no peace as long as there is grinding poverty, social injustice, inequality, oppression, environmental degradation, and as long as… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The degradation, the wrongs, the vices, that grow out of slavery, are more than I can describe. They are greater than you… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
In this denial of the right to participate in government, not merely the degradation of woman and the perpetuation of a great… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of… — William Morris Copy Share Image
We must begin by acknowledging that there is a complete absence of two things in Indian Society. One of these is equality.… — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
We should know that Allah has created us to live an eternal life with no death, a life of pride and ease… — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Copy Share Image
For England must not fall: it would mean an inundation of Russian & German political degradations which would envelop the globe &… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
For both of us, I think, it had to do with our weakened power to love. It is strange that enslavement should… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
What about our refusal to look squarely at the degradation of the planet we inhabit? In the last election cycle many candidates… — David Remnick Copy Share Image
The only truly dependable production technologies are those that are sustainable over the long term. By that very definition, they must avoid… — Eliot Coleman Copy Share Image
If the world suffers from mental deterioration or from moral degradation, then something goes wrong at the very root of civilization or… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
“God,” she cried, “what is love? Man seeking his own head? The human head, so rented by misery that even the teeth… — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
“As she uttered the words of the prayer, she glanced up at him as if he were God Himself. He watched her… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
When we hit a nail with a hammer the whole of the shock received by the large head of the nail passes… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
There's degradation of the environment. But the real issue is the degradation of one's inner environment. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Are we at last brought to such an humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
I consider it a degradation and a stain on my honor to submit to baptism in order to qualify myself for state… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
No future life could heal the degradation of having been a woman. Religion in the world had nothing but insults for women. — Dorothy Richardson Copy Share Image
If we feel the least degradation in being amorous, or merry or hungry, or sleepy, we are so far bad animals &… — William Morris Copy Share Image
Whether drugs lead to illumination or degradation depends on the spirit in which one takes them. — George Andrews Copy Share Image
As much good as it does, social media can also encourage stupidity and degradation. — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
The work of bestial degradation, begun by the victorious Germans, had been carried to its conclusion by the Germans in defeat. — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
Land degradation did not start with chemical agriculture. But chemical agriculture offered new tools for annihilation. — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
"Secret migration" across borders is a form of human degradation and evidence of the depravity of the human conscience. — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
That which commands admiration in the white woman only hastens the degradation of the female slave. — Patricia Hill Collins Copy Share Image
For those who are not hungry, it is easy to palaver about the degradation of charity. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
I think I would much rather push the boundaries of the degradation that the characters face. — Dave Rowntree Copy Share Image
