All growth, progress, well - being, or degradation is but relative. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Poverty does not produce unhappiness: It produces degradation. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced. — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
New media are new archetypes, at first disguised as degradations of older media. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
I know of no other book that so fully teaches the subjection and degradation of women. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Why do people think that we’re degraded when we’re examining positions of degradation, or examining the cycle of our own degradation? — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
No one should dogmatize about the capacity of human nature for degradation or exaltation. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“This abattement and degradation did not take place all at once; it was brought about by degrees” — William Makepeace Thackeray 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
Whenever you see want or misery or degradation in this world about you, then be sure either industry has been wanting, or… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
When a religion or ideology becomes dominant, the lack of controls will result in widening spirals of license leading to degradation and… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
It is very expensive to achieve high unreliability. It is not uncommon to increase the cost of an item by a factor… — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
The degradation of our environment is undeniably a direct result of our lack of regard, lack of accountability, and lack of responsibility. — Nikki Reed Copy Share Image
Policies are being pursued that place on the same level a multi-child family and a same-sex partnership, a faith in God and… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
In this hope, among the things we teach to the young are such truths as the transcendent value of the individual and… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act of 2004 helps address the continuing degradation on the broadcast airwaves and helps send a clear message… — Mike Rogers Copy Share Image
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in...We should be thankful we cannot see… — Graham Greene 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
“How many we know who have fled the sweetness of a tranquil life in their homes, among the friends, to seek the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Unprecedented technological capabilities combined with unlimited human creativity have given us tremendous power to take on intractable problems like poverty, unemployment, disease,… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
When language in common use in any country becomes irregular and depraved, it is followed by their ruin and degradation. For what… — John Milton 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
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
Do you know how much energy, how many powers, how many forces, are still lurking behind that frame of yours? What scientist… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“The gravel road widened into a large turnaround where three similar looking and designed brothels sat waiting for customers. They were called… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
As my friend Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe has argued persuasively, there is an element of positivity in the visible world, and in color particularly,… — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
Without the suitable conditions life could not exist. But both life and its conditions set forth the operations of inscrutable Power. We… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
In an age of interdependence, global citizenship - based on trust and sense of shared responsibility - is a crucial pillar of… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
If the impure and the unjust, the drunkard and the licentious, are loathsome to us, what must be the infinite loathing of… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
What the new fertilizer technology has accomplished for the farmer is clear: more crop can be produced on less acreage than before.… — Barry Commoner 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
Each person decides in early childhood how he will live and how he will die... His trivial behavior may be decided by… — Eric Berne Copy Share Image
