Degradation Quotes

War is a blessing compared with national degradation.

— Andrew Jackson

Poverty does not produce unhappiness: It produces degradation.

— George Bernard Shaw

All growth, progress, well - being, or degradation is but relative.

— Swami Vivekananda

No one can live under degradation.

— Walid Jumblatt

“What degradation lay in being young.”

— Daphne du Maurier

What is life without honor? Degradation is worse than death.

— Stonewall Jackson

Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.

— Charlotte Bronte

“Class supremacy can rest only on class degradation”

— Jack London

“To believers, the bible is a holy book, to unbelievers, it is a story book.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Man the law-giver will have to pay a dreadful penalty for the degradation he has imposed upon the so called weaker sex.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Man cannot degrade woman without himself falling into degradation; he cannot elevate her without at the same time elevating himself.

— Alexander Walker

Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish.

— Anonymous

There's degradation of the environment. But the real issue is the degradation of one's inner environment.

— Frederick Lenz

DEGRADATION, n. One of the stages of moral and social progress from private station to political preferment.

— Ambrose Bierce

Are we at last brought to such an humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?

— Patrick Henry

No one should dogmatize about the capacity of human nature for degradation or exaltation.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Unless we stop the degradation of our oceans, marine ecological systems will begin collapsing and when enough of them fail, the oceans…

— Paul Watson

If a Cuban refugee is escaping, we're saying they're a political refugee, but why isn't a Haitian refugee a political refugee? They're…

— Ian Svenonius

In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water,…

— Wangari Maathai

“I made the mistake of working at the world's largest telescopes and now show classic health degradation that is associated with that…

— Steven Magee

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

— Kofi Annan

It is the difficult, but unavoidable, task of the modern individual to assimilate consciously all of the contents - from darkest degradation…

— Daniel Pinchbeck

The national debate on health care once centered on improving access to quality care, yet the effect of Obamacare will be the…

— Fred Upton

“It’s only through the degradation of the soul that you can know who you really are; when all else is stripped away,…

— Dianna Hardy

Reclaiming the word 'fat' was the most empowering step in my progress. I stopped using it for insult or degradation and instead…

— Beth Ditto

I have never, God or whatever knows, prostrated myself to be famous, but I would meander through all the sewers of the…

— Max Beckmann

The day dawns; the morning star is bright upon the horizon! The iron gate of our prison stands half open. One gallant…

— Frederick Douglass

What concerns me most is the horrible degradation our notions of truth, civility, and decency have undergone. Also the way that language…

— George Saunders

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

— Aleister Crowley

Through it [Science] we believe that man will be saved from misery and degradation, not merely acquiring new material powers, but learning…

— Ray Lankester

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

— Charles Dickens

Being myself animated by feelings of affection toward my fellowmen, I am saddened by the modern system of advertising. Whatever evidence it…

— Joseph Conrad

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

— Simone Weil

Without the suitable conditions life could not exist. But both life and its conditions set forth the operations of inscrutable Power. We…

— Thomas Aquinas

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

Every woman whether rich or poor, married or single, has a circle of influence within which, according to her character, she is…

— John Angell James

If religious books are not widely circulated among the masses in this country, I do not know what is going to become…

— Daniel Webster

“The gravel road widened into a large turnaround where three similar looking and designed brothels sat waiting for customers. They were called…

— Michael Connelly

... In contrast to the "banality of evil," which posits that ordinary people can be responsible for the most despicable acts of…

— Philip Zimbardo

Wait, we can not break bread with you. You have taken the land which is rightfully ours. Years from now my people…

— Paul Rudnick