All growth, progress, well - being, or degradation is but relative. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Whether drugs lead to illumination or degradation depends on the spirit in which one takes them. — George Andrews 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
No future life could heal the degradation of having been a woman. Religion in the world had nothing but insults for women. — Dorothy Richardson Copy Share Image
I consider it a degradation and a stain on my honor to submit to baptism in order to qualify myself for state… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
For those who are not hungry, it is easy to palaver about the degradation of charity. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
That which commands admiration in the white woman only hastens the degradation of the female slave. — Patricia Hill Collins 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
Land degradation did not start with chemical agriculture. But chemical agriculture offered new tools for annihilation. — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
No matter who you are, the thought of so much suffering and degradation must cause you to shudder at the sight of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Infantilism, the main characteristic of today's "developed societies", animalizes man by humanizing animals, enslaves man by "liberating" nature and stupefies man by… — Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski Copy Share Image
Finally, since human beings are uniquely capable of producing materials not found in nature, environmental degradation may be due to the resultant… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
Environmental degradation has one cause above all others: the propensity of human beings to take the benefit and leave the costs to… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“Denial of climate change and degradation of environment for the purpose of economic prosperity is humiliation and slavery of the nature.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
There's something evil in me that loves evil and degradation--purity's black backside! That loves honesty with a horrid love; or why have… — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
Nothing in our society-with the exception of violence and fear-has been more effective in keeping women in their place than the degradation… — Christiane Northrup Copy Share Image
And we need to maintain our foothold in the fight against terrorism and terrorist groups and respond to any degradation of Iraqi… — Rick Larsen 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
Why, since man and woman were created for each other, had He made their desires so dissimilar? Why should one class of… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
Invisible Beasts is a strange and beautiful meditation on love and seeing, a hybrid of fantasy and field guide, novel and essay,… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“We are all addicts in various stages of degradation where I live on the Upper West Side, some to heroin, some to… — Murray Kempton Copy Share Image
So many times I've photographed stories that show the degradation of the planet. I had one idea to go and photograph the… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
Israel is following policies which maximise its security threats... policies which choose expansion over security... policies which lead to their moral degradation,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
And while we stand with conviction and courage, we must live with compassion. Amid a world with massive social needs around us,… — David Platt Copy Share Image
For in the absence of debate unrestricted utterance leads to the degradation of opinion. By a kind of Greshams law the more… — Walter Lippmann 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
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 Copy Share Image
The work of bestial degradation, begun by the victorious Germans, had been carried to its conclusion by the Germans in defeat. — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
As much good as it does, social media can also encourage stupidity and degradation. — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment. — Derrick Jensen 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
There appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations. — Aga Khan IV Copy Share Image
...only the unscrupulous or shortsighted can defend pollution and degradation of the countryside. — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves. — Simone Weil 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
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
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
There's degradation of the environment. But the real issue is the degradation of one's inner environment. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
DEGRADATION, n. One of the stages of moral and social progress from private station to political preferment. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
