This pleasure comes precisely from the sharpest awareness of your own degradation; from the knowledge that you have gone to the utmost… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
To me it seems certain that the fatalistic teachings of Muhammad and the utter degradation of women is the outstanding cause for… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
The seriousness of ecological degradation lays bare the depth of man's moral crisis... Simplicity, moderation, and discipline as well as the spirit… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape… — Fay Godwin Copy Share Image
Thank God that at least in one place, all men are equal: in the church of God. I do not consider it… — Roger B. Taney Copy Share Image
We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Human beings are capable of virtually limitless degradation; they are also capable of virtually limitless improvement and achievement. Success depends on goals… — Mas Oyama Copy Share Image
In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water,… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
Today we find ourselves faced with the imminent end of the era of cheap oil, the prospect (beyond the recent bubble) of… — Tim Jackson Copy Share Image
The great have private feelings of their own, to which the interests of humanity and justice must curtsy. Their interests are so… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The women of this country ought be enlightened in regard to the laws under which they live, that they may no longer… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Is a civilization naturally backward because it is different? Outside of cannibalism, which can be matched in this country, at least, by… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
The day dawns; the morning star is bright upon the horizon! The iron gate of our prison stands half open. One gallant… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Reclaiming the word 'fat' was the most empowering step in my progress. I stopped using it for insult or degradation and instead… — Beth Ditto Copy Share Image
I have never, God or whatever knows, prostrated myself to be famous, but I would meander through all the sewers of the… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
Through it [Science] we believe that man will be saved from misery and degradation, not merely acquiring new material powers, but learning… — Ray Lankester Copy Share Image
Unless we stop the degradation of our oceans, marine ecological systems will begin collapsing and when enough of them fail, the oceans… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
If a Cuban refugee is escaping, we're saying they're a political refugee, but why isn't a Haitian refugee a political refugee? They're… — Ian Svenonius Copy Share Image
The fact that human beings do not put up forever with misery, humiliation, degradation, actual physical deprivation but act is a fact… — Tillie Olsen Copy Share Image
A freak is basically anyone who needs fantasy, degradation, or punishment in order to achieve his interpretation of erotic gratification. — Xaviera Hollander Copy Share Image
One of the reasons that women are kept in a state of economic degradation- because that's what it is for most women-… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“I made the mistake of working at the world's largest telescopes and now show classic health degradation that is associated with that… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
The national debate on health care once centered on improving access to quality care, yet the effect of Obamacare will be the… — Fred Upton Copy Share Image
It is the difficult, but unavoidable, task of the modern individual to assimilate consciously all of the contents - from darkest degradation… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
“It’s only through the degradation of the soul that you can know who you really are; when all else is stripped away,… — Dianna Hardy Copy Share Image
Before Israel dies, it must be humiliated and degraded. Allah willing, before they die, they will experience humiliation and degradation every day. — Khaled Mashal Copy Share Image
If the power of the Gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of the land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
I believe we need to attract a new generation of the best and brightest to public service and I believe that government… — Andrew Cuomo Copy Share Image
The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation, because in the degradation of women, the very fountains of… — Lucretia Mott Copy Share Image
The environmental movement could do a better job incorporating the message about the connection between poverty and environmental degradation, and building that… — Helene D. Gayle Copy Share Image
Most Americans have never seen the ignorance, degradation, hunger, sickness, and futility in which many other Americans live...They won't become involved in… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
That only a few, under any circumstances, protest against the injustice of long-established laws and customs, does not disprove the fact of… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders. — Warren Christopher Copy Share Image
To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
I love my nation, I cannot see you degraded, weakened any more than you are now. Therefore I am bound for your… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Falsehoods of convenience or vanity, falsehoods from which no evil immediately visible ensues, except the general degradation of human testimony, are very… — Samuel Johnson 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
Call a thing immoral or ugly, soul-destroying or a degradation to man, a peril to the peace of the world or to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I grew up in an area of a lot of growth, in Orange County, California, and spent most of my youth on… — Aaron Peirsol Copy Share Image
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