Degradation Quotes

188 Degradation quotes by 165 unique authors

Judging by my degradation in the last 24 hours, I'll be surprised if I make it to Tuesday. — Aron Ralston
Well, for starters, we have to do more to create demand for new technologies that can reduce our dependence on foreign oil and environmental degradation. — Sherwood Boehlert
I think I would much rather push the boundaries of the degradation that the characters face. — Dave Rowntree
What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory… — Fay Godwin
But it will be said that the husband provides for the wife, or in other words, he feeds, clothes and shelters her! I wish I… — Ernestine Rose
So many times I've photographed stories that show the degradation of the planet. I had one idea to go and photograph the factories that were… — Sebastiao Salgado
Many say our world is at a tipping point. If we do not act together, if we do not act responsibly, if we do not… — Ban Ki-moon
National prosperity is another name for death and degradation to millions of other races. — Swami Vivekananda
A growing body of social science research reveals that atheists and non-religious people in general, are far from the unsavory beings many assume them to… — Gregory S. Paul
There are those... who enter the world in such poverty that they are deprived of both the means and the motivation to improve their lot.… — Aga Khan IV
You cannot change someone using fear, degradation, humiliation, or by comparing them to others. It can only be done through love, with love, for love.… — Suzy Kassem
Are you saying we shouldn't be prepared? And I'm asking you that right now, Daniel. ... Why would you be against people being able not… — Matt Shea
The day dawns; the morning star is bright upon the horizon! The iron gate of our prison stands half open. One gallant rush from the… — Frederick Douglass
Is a civilization naturally backward because it is different? Outside of cannibalism, which can be matched in this country, at least, by lynching, there is… — W. E. B. Du Bois
So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin was… — Oscar Wilde
For in the absence of debate unrestricted utterance leads to the degradation of opinion. By a kind of Greshams law the more rational is overcome… — Walter Lippmann
For the record, I am sticking with my claim that the simultaneous degradation of air quality, water quality, water supply, food safety, soil quality, and… — James Fallows
Whoever degrades another degrades me. — Walt Whitman
Every kind of reward constitutes a degradation of energy. — Simone Weil
The work of bestial degradation, begun by the victorious Germans, had been carried to its conclusion by the Germans in defeat. — Primo Levi
Every individual or national degeneration is immediately revealed by a directly proportional degradation in language. — Joseph de Maistre
People who need therapy are in Afghanistan. They've seen horrible human cruelty and degradation, but they don't have time or the money for therapy. — David Chase
Perhaps no American family-with the possible exception of the Adams family-has had a more vivid and powerful impact on the life of their times. But… — Doris Kearns Goodwin
There's degradation of the environment. But the real issue is the degradation of one's inner environment. — Frederick Lenz
Creation was given to people as a clean window through which the light of God could shine into people's souls. Sun and moon, night and… — Thomas Merton

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