Degradation Quotes

188 Degradation quotes by 165 unique authors

Pardon me, dear human self, capable of the most heinous degradation, capable of soaring. — Sena Jeter Naslund
The only religion that ought to be taught is the religion of fearlessness. Either in this world or in the world of religion, it is… — Swami Vivekananda
but as he plodded along a vague and almost hallucinatory pall hazed over his mind; he found himself at one point, with no notion of… — Philip K. Dick
Environmental degradation is an iatrogenic disease induced by economic physicians who treat the basic malady of unlimited wants by prescribing unlimited growth.... Yet one certainly… — Herman E. Daly
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in...We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and… — Graham Greene
The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment. — Derrick Jensen
There's something evil in me that loves evil and degradation--purity's black backside! That loves honesty with a horrid love; or why have I always gone… — Djuna Barnes
Did I not feel that the time has come for the questions of women's wrongs to be laid before the public? Did I not believe… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
You loved me-then what right had you to leave me? What right-answer me-for the poor fancy you felt for Linton? Because misery and degradation, and… — Emily Bronte
Prison is a second-by-second assault on the soul, a day-to-day degradation of the self, an oppressive steel and brick umbrella that transforms seconds into hours… — Mumia Abu-Jamal
For a long time—always, in fact—I have known that life here on earth is not what I needed and that I wasn’t able to deal… — Emile M. Cioran
Marxism teaches that exploitation and degradation somehow produce resistance and revolution. It's been hard to say why. What I've learned from women's experience with sexuality… — Catharine MacKinnon
I value my own independence so highly that I can fancy no degradation greater than that of having another man perpetually directing and advising and… — Elizabeth Gaskell
The women of this country ought be enlightened in regard to the laws under which they live, that they may no longer publish their degradation… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Most Americans have never seen the ignorance, degradation, hunger, sickness, and futility in which many other Americans live...They won't become involved in economic or political… — Shirley Chisholm
Culture is a matrix of infinite possibilities and choices. From within the same culture matrix we can extract arguments and strategies for the degradation and… — Wole Soyinka
We see evidence that lakes and forests and wetlands can have different equilibria - so you have a savanna system that may be stable and… — Johan Rockstrom
So long as the most vulnerable people in our population are consigned to places that the rest of us will always shun and flee and… — Jonathan Kozol
Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of… — Mahatma Gandhi
Food and the way we grow it and produce it are a major cause of environmental degradation. — Jose Andres Puerta
Thank God that at least in one place, all men are equal: in the church of God. I do not consider it any degradation to… — Roger B. Taney
Presidents and prime ministers, whether they live in the rich or the poor world, are insulated and isolated from the devastating impact of global poverty.… — Jonathan Dimbleby
I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. — Alice James
The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned… — Lucretia Mott
Man cannot degrade woman without himself falling into degradation; he cannot elevate her without at the same time elevating himself. — Alexander Walker

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