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
Whether drugs lead to illumination or degradation depends on the spirit in which one takes them. — George Andrews Copy Share Image
All growth, progress, well - being, or degradation is but relative. — Swami Vivekananda 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
Human beings are capable of virtually limitless degradation; they are also capable of virtually limitless improvement and achievement. Success depends on goals… — Mas Oyama 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
The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation, because in the degradation of women, the very fountains of… — Lucretia Mott Copy Share Image
For a long time—always, in fact—I have known that life here on earth is not what I needed and that I wasn’t… — Anonymous 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
You loved me-then what right had you to leave me? What right-answer me-for the poor fancy you felt for Linton? Because misery… — Emily Bronte 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
The fundamental driving force for me is to create a change in the world we live in... It is about exploitation, plundering… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
A Soviet man is a product of invisible changes, degradation and progressive deformation. Breaking the chain of those changes is hard. Perhaps… — Merab Mamardashvili 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
Every man who is not for us in this prolonged struggle for liberty is responsible for the present degradation of the mothers… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton 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
Any use of a human being in which less is demanded of him and less is attributed to him than his full… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him. Deep down he… — Marquis de Sade 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
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
Reclaiming the word 'fat' was the most empowering step in my progress. I stopped using it for insult or degradation and instead… — Beth Ditto 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
The smell of death overwhelmed us even before we passed through the stockade. More than 3200 naked, emaciated bodies had been flung… — Omar N. Bradley Copy Share Image
Man is suddenly becoming aware that by an ill-considered exploitation of nature he risks destroying it and becoming in his turn the… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
