Plummeting into the pitiful and incomprehensible…

The current demoralization of the art world is attributable at least in part to museum interference, ideological and practical, with ongoing creation in art.

— Harold Rosenberg

The whole history of man is continuous proof of the maxim that to divest one's methods of ethical concepts means to sink into the…

— Emma Goldman

Create accomplishment from disappointments. Demoralization and disappointment are two of the surest going stones to achievement.

— Dale Carnegie

Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally, it is…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“. . . but in the great demoralization of the land he kept up his appearance. That's backbone.”

— Joseph Conrad

Some who have been perfectly healthy and able to bear children have avoided this responsibility, and in doing so have resorted to the use…

— Mark E. Petersen

“You must see, then, that the socialist democrats cannot in conscience allow men any liberty, because, by their own nature, they tend in every…

— Frédéric Bastiat

“Of all their enemies -- the cold, the ice, the sea -- he feared none more than demoralization.”

— Alfred Lansing

What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic…

— Florence Nightingale

“I am learning the pathways of the heart, Eleanor thought quite seriously, and then wondered what she could have meant by thinking any such…

— Shirley Jackson

It is hard to conceive of the utter demoralization, of the political blindness and immorality, of the patriotic dishonesty, of the cruelty and degradation…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

A person who has been seduced by the consumer value system, whose identity is dissolved in an amalgam of the accouterments trappings of mass…

— Vaclav Havel

We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. Presumably the plans…

— Charlton Ogburn

Demoralization of the target audience is yet another step in successful mind control.

— Joost Meerloo