Degradation Quotes - Page 3

Every kind of reward constitutes a degradation of energy.

Christians must go beyond criticizing the degradation of American culture, roll up their sleeves, and get to work on positive solutions. The only way to drive out bad culture is with good culture.

Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.

I was offered 'I'm A Celebrity...' for a lot of money, but I don't like the level of degradation.

Gradually we come to admit that Shakespeare understands a greater extent and variety of human life than Dante; but that Dante understands deeper degrees of degradation and higher degrees of exaltation.

National prosperity is another name for death and degradation to millions of other races.

All growth, progress, well - being, or degradation is but relative.

Pardon me, dear human self, capable of the most heinous degradation, capable of soaring.

As in any person's life, there have been difficult moments: I have a son with Down's syndrome; through my photography, I have witnessed all manner of human degradation. But there have also been very happy moments.

Our political system cannot stop the degradation of our culture.

contempt for the degradation of specialization and pedantry. Specialization develops only part of a man; a man partially developed is deformed.

The work of bestial degradation, begun by the victorious Germans, had been carried to its conclusion by the Germans in defeat.

I'm no expert on pornography. The core element of it, I think, is degradation of women, whatever else goes on. I don't think it should be outlawed, but I'm not in favor of the degradation of anybody.

The degradation of our environment is undeniably a direct result of our lack of regard, lack of accountability, and lack of responsibility.

When a religion or ideology becomes dominant, the lack of controls will result in widening spirals of license leading to degradation and corruption.

No one should dogmatize about the capacity of human nature for degradation or exaltation.

I have heard painters acknowledge, though in that acknowledgment no degradation of themselves was intended, that they could do better without nature than with her; or as they express themselves, 'that it only put them out.

Whenever you see want or misery or degradation in this world about you, then be sure either industry has been wanting, or industry has been in error.

The environmental movement could do a better job incorporating the message about the connection between poverty and environmental degradation, and building that message at the grassroots level.

"Secret migration" across borders is a form of human degradation and evidence of the depravity of the human conscience.

Poverty does not produce unhappiness: It produces degradation.

This pleasure comes precisely from the sharpest awareness of your own degradation; from the knowledge that you have gone to the utmost limit; that it is despicable, yet cannot be otherwise; that you no longer have any way out; that you will never become a different man.

The contempt of riches in philosophers was only a hidden desire to avenge their merit upon the injustice of fortune, by despising the very goods of which fortune had deprived them; it was a secret to guard themselves against the degradation of poverty, it was a back way by which to arrive at that distinction which they could not gain by riches.

No future life could heal the degradation of having been a woman. Religion in the world had nothing but insults for women.

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.