Degradation Quotes

188 Degradation quotes by 165 unique authors

Every woman whether rich or poor, married or single, has a circle of influence within which, according to her character, she is exerting a certain… — John Angell James
Nowhere is this challenge more critical -- and the need for action more pressing -- than in the Horn of Africa. From Kenya to Ethiopia,… — Rajiv Shah
Falsehoods of convenience or vanity, falsehoods from which no evil immediately visible ensues, except the general degradation of human testimony, are very lightly uttered, and… — Samuel Johnson
If all boys could be made to know that with every breath of cigarette smoke they inhale imbecility and exhale manhood ... and that the… — Hudson Maxim
The audience too should be respected by being presented with a film as they remember it, and for those who have not seen it, as… — George Stevens
I can think of nothing in the world like the utter littleness, the paltriness, the contemptibleness, the degradation, of the woman who is tied down… — Mary MacLane
With the plundered people transferring their energies into relaxed and receptive thoughts, degradation and lust for power produced art. — Peter Weiss
No one can live under degradation. — Walid Jumblatt
Restoration ecology is experimental science, a science of love and altruism. In its attempts to reverse the processes of ecosystem degradation it runs exactly counter… — Stephanie Mills
Any use of a human being in which less is demanded of him and less is attributed to him than his full status is a… — Norbert Wiener
Let me say it openly: we are surrounded by an enterprise of degradation, cruelty, and killing which rivals anything the Third Reich was capable of,… — J M Coetzee
The smell of death overwhelmed us even before we passed through the stockade. More than 3200 naked, emaciated bodies had been flung into shallow graves.… — Omar N. Bradley
As my friend Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe has argued persuasively, there is an element of positivity in the visible world, and in color particularly, that totally eludes… — Dave Hickey
I ask the political economists and the moralists if they have ever calculated the number of individuals who must be condemned to misery, overwork, demoralisation,… — Almeida Garrett
Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite… — Karl Marx
Business is the only mechanism on the planet today powerful enough to produce the changes necessary to reverse global environments and social degradation. — Paul Hawken
There can be no peace as long as there is grinding poverty, social injustice, inequality, oppression, environmental degradation, and as long as the weak and… — Dalai Lama
It is very expensive to achieve high unreliability. It is not uncommon to increase the cost of an item by a factor of ten for… — Norman Ralph Augustine
Human beings are capable of virtually limitless degradation; they are also capable of virtually limitless improvement and achievement. Success depends on goals and on diligence… — Mas Oyama
All growth, progress, well - being, or degradation is but relative. — Swami Vivekananda
Environmental degradation is one of the biggest challenges we have. I think a question that we're not asking ourselves is: 'Isn't humanity committing suicide with… — Pope Francis
That which commands admiration in the white woman only hastens the degradation of the female slave. — Patricia Hill Collins
DEGRADATION, n. One of the stages of moral and social progress from private station to political preferment. — Ambrose Bierce
...only the unscrupulous or shortsighted can defend pollution and degradation of the countryside. — Russell Kirk
When we hit a nail with a hammer the whole of the shock received by the large head of the nail passes into a point… — Simone Weil

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