The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment. — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Man cannot degrade woman without himself falling into degradation; he cannot elevate her without at the same time elevating himself. — Alexander Walker Copy Share Image
Are we at last brought to such an humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
If we feel the least degradation in being amorous, or merry or hungry, or sleepy, we are so far bad animals &… — William Morris Copy Share Image
Whether drugs lead to illumination or degradation depends on the spirit in which one takes them. — George Andrews Copy Share Image
As much good as it does, social media can also encourage stupidity and degradation. — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
"Secret migration" across borders is a form of human degradation and evidence of the depravity of the human conscience. — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
How do you know what possibilities lie behind that degradation on the surface? You know but little of that which is within… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Reducing and removing greenhouse gas emissions spares our planet from the well-documented degradation that we are witnessing on a global basis. — Dick Durbin Copy Share Image
... no man or woman should depend upon another for maintenance and necessaries. Family discord and social degradation will never end till… — Anandi Gopal Joshi Copy Share Image
It is the system, rather than individuals, that is the source of pollution and degradation. My prison-house environment is but another manifestation… — Alexander Berkman Copy Share Image
It saddens me to see the reality-television shows that are getting so much fanfare that are a celebration of stupidity and the… — Prabal Gurung Copy Share Image
To love what is below the human is degradation; to love what is human for the sake of the human is mediocrity;… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation,… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Why is it that scuba divers and surfers are some of the strongest advocates of ocean conservation? Because they've spent time in… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
For England must not fall: it would mean an inundation of Russian & German political degradations which would envelop the globe &… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
For both of us, I think, it had to do with our weakened power to love. It is strange that enslavement should… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Culture is a matrix of infinite possibilities and choices. From within the same culture matrix we can extract arguments and strategies for… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I can testify, from my own experience and observation, that slavery is a curse to the whites as well as to the… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
Development requires modification and transformation of the environment... the planet's capacity to support its people us being irreversibly reduced by the destruction… — Malcolm Fraser Copy Share Image
What about our refusal to look squarely at the degradation of the planet we inhabit? In the last election cycle many candidates… — David Remnick Copy Share Image
If the world suffers from mental deterioration or from moral degradation, then something goes wrong at the very root of civilization or… — Jawaharlal Nehru 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
Wait, we can not break bread with you. You have taken the land which is rightfully ours. Years from now my people… — Paul Rudnick Copy Share Image
When we hit a nail with a hammer the whole of the shock received by the large head of the nail passes… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
I was offered 'I'm A Celebrity...' for a lot of money, but I don't like the level of degradation. — Vinnie Jones Copy Share Image
Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
A foolish picture I live in disgust, degradation being eaten by lust. — Ozzy Osbourne Copy Share Image
“Don't degrade your soul to the extent of believing in curses. No man can curse you except your maker.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered the most from the gradual degradation of the idea of liberty. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“God gave man the authority to rule and protect all the animals in the aquatic ecosystems.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
The clergy, no less than the capitalist class, lives on the backs of the people, profits from the degradation, the ignorance and… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
The philosophers of antiquity taught contempt for work, that degradation of the free man, the poets sang of idleness, that gift from… — Paul Lafargue Copy Share Image
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. With this creed, revenge never worries my… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Understanding what is going on in the world today inspires me in a negative sense because there's so much about it that… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
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
