Any use of a human being in which less is demanded of him…

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

Well, for starters, we have to do more to create demand for new technologies that can reduce our dependence on foreign oil and environmental…

— Sherwood Boehlert

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

When we hit a nail with a hammer the whole of the shock received by the large head of the nail passes into a…

— Simone Weil