Degrade Quote by Booker T. Washington

Without adversity, we can never unleash our greatness.

— Paul G. Stoltz

What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.

— George Eliot

As we look to the future, we cannot improve our living standards while simultaneously degrading the natural environment around us.

— Ali Bongo Ondimba

Human beings as a whole cannot be good for long before the bad creeps back in and poisons us again.

— Veronica Roth

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.

— Kenneth Clark

There is one thing we can do better than anyone else: we can be ourselves.

— William Arthur Ward

No one becomes depraved all at once.

— Juvenal

We can what-if ourselves to death... But what-if never does anybody any good. All any of us ever have...is one thing, and we better…

— Mike Lupica

There is only one way to degrade mankind permanently and that is to destroy language.

— Northrop Frye

What destroys us is not when we fail at doing something. It's the small, tiny, little bit of hope we had that we could…

— Alexa Michalec

It is in your nature to destroy yourselves.

— Edward Furlong

We are all very imperfect and weak things, and if we are to destroy all whose ways we do not like, there will be…

— Mahatma Gandhi