Multi-taskers often think they are like gym rats, bulking up their ability to juggle tasks, when in fact they are like alcoholics,… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
More than one-half of the world's major rivers are being seriously depleted and polluted, degrading and poisoning the surrounding ecosystems, thus threatening… — Ismail Serageldin Copy Share Image
Poverty is mean and degrading to the human spirit, whereas a life of conscious simplicity can have both a beauty and a… — Duane Elgin Copy Share Image
We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten. We can receive… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Regarding factory-farmed animals We owe them a merciful death, and we owe them a merciful life. And when human beings cannot do… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
What is your Self? Self is nothing but joy. A joyous person is definitely a person who has got his Self expressing… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
An environmentalist can oppose factory farming because it's reckless stewardship. A conservative can oppose factory farming because it is destructive to small… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
If I am told my loving you had to happen because of some Freudian stuff about my childhood, that might be degrading… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
When I say that asian women are beautiful it's not a sexual thing. I'm not being degrading, I find them sexually repulsive. — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one's means of livelihood. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Girls can wear jeans and cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots cause it's okay to be a boy. But for… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Political correctness is a concept invented by hard-rightwing forces to defend their right to be racist, to treat women in a degrading… — Clare Short Copy Share Image
The overriding thing has to be a love for people. If you don't love people, you don't care if we live in… — Lance Berkman Copy Share Image
We talk about our military being degraded over time, and yet we've had folks who've been a part of Congress who have… — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
There's no reason in the world why black [people] should not be regarded as an attribute that is not degrading but is… — John Hope Franklin Copy Share Image
My God died young. Theolatry i found Degrading, and its premises, unsound. No free man needs God; but was I free? — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Nora leaves her husband, not-as the stupid critic would have it-because she is tired of her responsibilities or feels the need of… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Religion and nationalism, as well as any custom and any belief however absurd and degrading, if it only connects the individual with… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Please, please, stop referring to yourselves as "consumers." OK? Consumers are different than citizens. Consumers do not have obligations, responsibilities and duties… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
We are, in fact, hyper-dimentional objects of some sort which cast a shadow into matter, and the shadow in matter is the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
For tens of millions of people [television] has become habit-forming, brain-softening, taste-degrading. — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Extreme poverty is not only a condition of unsatisfied material needs. It is often accompanied by a degrading state of powerlessness. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Profanity is filthiness. A person is known as much by his language as he is by the company he keeps...Filthiness in any… — Joseph Fielding Smith Copy Share Image