Degradation Quotes · Page 3

Society itself is responsible for the degradation.

— Wole Soyinka

Long before many of us were even conscious of our own degradation, Marcus Garvey fought for African national and racial equality.

— Kwame Nkrumah

I know of no other book that so fully teaches the subjection and degradation of women.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

New media are new archetypes, at first disguised as degradations of older media.

— Marshall McLuhan

Pardon me, dear human self, capable of the most heinous degradation, capable of soaring.

— Sena Jeter Naslund

The degradation of the sense of symbol in modern society is one of its many signs of spiritual decay.

— Thomas Merton

National prosperity is another name for death and degradation to millions of other races.

— Swami Vivekananda

The degradation to which you subject others comes back, sooner or later, to haunt you,

— Ken Follett

The ocean is our planet's life support system, yet in my travels and at home, I've seen its degradation firsthand.

— Greg MacGillivray

Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders.

— Warren Christopher

I believe we need to attract a new generation of the best and brightest to public service and I believe that government…

— Andrew Cuomo

The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation, because in the degradation of women, the very fountains of…

— Lucretia Mott

Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation, it cannot be classified as…

— Sigmund Freud

Call a thing immoral or ugly, soul-destroying or a degradation to man, a peril to the peace of the world or to…

— Anonymous

I grew up in an area of a lot of growth, in Orange County, California, and spent most of my youth on…

— Aaron Peirsol

To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

I love my nation, I cannot see you degraded, weakened any more than you are now. Therefore I am bound for your…

— Swami Vivekananda

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

“God,” she cried, “what is love? Man seeking his own head? The human head, so rented by misery that even the teeth…

— Djuna Barnes

Culture is a matrix of infinite possibilities and choices. From within the same culture matrix we can extract arguments and strategies for…

— Wole Soyinka

The major accomplishment of analyzing illiteracy so far has been the listing of symptoms: the decrease in functional literacy; a general degradation…

— Mihai Nadin

In brief, the goal of sexual suppression is that of producing an individual who is adjusted to the authoritarian order and who…

— Wilhelm Reich

Today we find ourselves faced with the imminent end of the era of cheap oil, the prospect (beyond the recent bubble) of…

— Tim Jackson

The great have private feelings of their own, to which the interests of humanity and justice must curtsy. Their interests are so…

— William Hazlitt

I value my own independence so highly that I can fancy no degradation greater than that of having another man perpetually directing…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

If the impure and the unjust, the drunkard and the licentious, are loathsome to us, what must be the infinite loathing of…

— Lyman Abbott

[Coleridge] selected an instance of what was called the sublime, in DARWIN, who imagined the creation of the universe to have taken…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.

— Frederick Douglass

“The utmost extremity of degradation is the obscene merriment to which it gives rise.”

— Victor Hugo

“God gave man the authority to rule and protect all the animals in the aquatic ecosystems.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

With the plundered people transferring their energies into relaxed and receptive thoughts, degradation and lust for power produced art.

— Peter Weiss

One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

— Alice James

“With so much poverty and degradation, one must have a very thick skin to be rich. Some”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Every individual or national degeneration is immediately revealed by a directly proportional degradation in language.

— Joseph de Maistre

Judging by my degradation in the last 24 hours, I'll be surprised if I make it to Tuesday.

— Aron Ralston

A foolish picture I live in disgust, degradation being eaten by lust.

— Ozzy Osbourne

Food and the way we grow it and produce it are a major cause of environmental degradation.

— Anonymous

I think I would much rather push the boundaries of the degradation that the characters face.

— Dave Rowntree

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

I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the world.

— Charles Dickens