Character Quote by Ambrose Bierce

From a planning perspective, economic degradation begets environmental degradation, which begets social degradation.

— Majora Carter

Society itself is responsible for the degradation.

— Wole Soyinka

Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result…

— Janice Rogers Brown

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

The seriousness of ecological degradation lays bare the depth of man's moral crisis... Simplicity, moderation, and discipline as well as the spirit of sacrifice…

— Pope John Paul II

There are three influences which appear to Us to have the chief place in effecting this downgrade movement of society. These are-first, the distaste…

— Pope Leo XIII

Here was a place where men and life and death had reached the lowest form of degradation. How could any reward in national progress…

— Charles Lindbergh

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

— Victor Hugo

If the world suffers from mental deterioration or from moral degradation, then something goes wrong at the very root of civilization or culture. Even…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

The very foundation of private property and free contracting wears away in a nation in which its most vital, most concrete, most meaningful types…

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process at every step and the substitution for it of another, which may be called the…

— Thomas Huxley

The profession to which we belong, once venerated...-has become corrupt and degenerate to the forfeiture of its social position...

— Nathaniel Chapman