I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most…

From a planning perspective, economic degradation begets environmental degradation, which begets social degradation.

— Majora Carter

The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable…

— Charles Dickens

Restoration ecology is experimental science, a science of love and altruism. In its attempts to reverse the processes of ecosystem degradation it runs exactly…

— Stephanie Mills

What is it in absinthe that makes it a separate cult? The effects of its abuse are totally distinct from those of other stimulants.…

— Aleister Crowley

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

It's a terrible cruelty of predatory capitalism: both parents now have to work. A family has to have two incomes in order to buy…

— James Hillman

As a southerner born after the epic events of the civil rights movement, I've always wondered how on earth people of good will could…

— Jon Meacham

If the world suffers from mental deterioration or from moral degradation, then something goes wrong at the very root of civilization or culture. Even…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

If all boys could be made to know that with every breath of cigarette smoke they inhale imbecility and exhale manhood ... and that…

— Hudson Maxim

In an age of interdependence, global citizenship - based on trust and sense of shared responsibility - is a crucial pillar of progress. At…

— Kofi Annan

We must begin by acknowledging that there is a complete absence of two things in Indian Society. One of these is equality. On the…

— B. R. Ambedkar

Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.

— Charlotte Bronte

The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment.

— Derrick Jensen

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. With this creed, revenge never worries my heart, degradation…

— Charlotte Bronte

All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated.

— Kofi Annan