Degradation Quotes

Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet. — Lewis Mumford

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

How do I look?" she asked.

"Absolutely stunning. — Stylo Fantome

Whenever my children complain about the planet to me, I say 'Shut up, I just got here myself'. — Kurt Vonnegut

There appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations. — Aga Khan IV

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

Only the degraded want to degrade others. — Marty Rubin

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

Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation. — Charlotte Bronte

The negro's story may have started in this country with degradation, but triumph and prosperity would be his one day. — Colson Whitehead

By making a circle of themselves that separated the human spirits within from the degradation without. Noble — Colson Whitehead

Self-hatred is the ultimate degradation. — Marty Rubin

A mendacious umbrella is a sign of great moral degradation. — Robert Louis Stevenson

My background is degradation and sloth, mostly. — Larry David

Make war not on terrorism but on ignorance, on sickness and on environmental degradation. — Kurt Vonnegut

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. — John Ruskin

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 degradation and a waste. — Norbert Wiener

Cutting a tree down doesn't kill it; it erases it from history. — The Wombat

Still, who knew how the old mountain took retribution for having its insides clawed out. — Sandra Dallas

The love for God is the love to protect the environment. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The degradation, the wrongs, the vices, that grow out of slavery, are more than I can describe. They are greater than you would willingly believe. — Harriet Ann Jacobs

Poverty does not produce unhappiness: It produces degradation. — George Bernard Shaw

Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

The degradation to which you subject others comes back, sooner or later, to haunt you, Maud thought. — Ken Follett

The utmost extremity of degradation is the obscene merriment to which it gives rise. — Victor Hugo

She couldn't get that the fucking itself wasn't degrading. The intentional degradation was degrading. And hot. — C.D. Reiss

What degradation lay in being young. — Daphne Du Maurier

Before Israel dies, it must be humiliated and degraded. Allah willing, before they die, they will experience humiliation and degradation every day. — Khaled Mashal

The ones who chose to live free of inconvenience by tolerating the agony and degradation of others? — Robin Hobb

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

Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered the most from the gradual degradation of the idea of liberty. — Albert Camus

Food and the way we grow it and produce it are a major cause of environmental degradation. — Jose Andres

Living in filth is dark doom. The light of awaken leads to cleanliness. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the world. — Charles Dickens

With the plundered people transferring their energies into relaxed and receptive thoughts, degradation and lust for power produced art. — Peter Weiss

I know of no other book that so fully teaches the subjection and degradation of women. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The soul that is within me no man can degrade. — Frederick Douglass

Nothing can ever fix nature' not even all monies in the world and money rules, are never worthy following. — Auliq Ice

Then she wonders why a part of her is trying to find value in degradation. — N.K. Jemisin

In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced. — Barry Commoner

Man cannot degrade woman without himself falling into degradation; he cannot elevate her without at the same time elevating himself. — Alexander Walker

This abattement and degradation did not take place all at once; it was brought about by degrees — William Makepeace Thackeray

The city is dirty due to the laziness of the citizens in the country. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Why do people think that we're degraded when we're examining positions of degradation, or examining the cycle of our own degradation? — Chris Kraus

A foolish picture I live in disgust, degradation being eaten by lust. — Ozzy Osbourne

Violence is the ultimate human degradation. — Ramsey Clark

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation. — Marquis De Sade

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

But the degradation of the women was avenged in the men and degraded them also, until they sank into the abomination of boy-love. — Friedrich Engels

That which commands admiration in the white woman only hastens the degradation of the female slave. — Patricia Hill Collins

The dead men had become martyrs and their degradation was forgotten — George Orwell

As much good as it does, social media can also encourage stupidity and degradation. — Madonna Ciccone

Every individual or national degeneration is immediately revealed by a directly proportional degradation in language. — Joseph De Maistre

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

The best armor is to keep out of range. — Abraham J. Twerski

Only the unscrupulous or shortsighted can defend pollution and degradation of the countryside. — Russell Kirk

The world only mattered because people lived there and sometimes, in spite of the pain, tragedy, and degradation, even managed to triumph there. — Mark Z. Danielewski

DEGRADATION, n. One of the stages of moral and social progress from private station to political preferment. — Ambrose Bierce

Contempt for the degradation of specialization and pedantry. Specialization develops only part of a man; a man partially developed is deformed. — Richard M. Weaver

If we feel the least degradation in being amorous, or merry or hungry, or sleepy, we are so far bad animals & miserable men. — William Morris

God's forgiveness is not just a casual statement; it is the complete blotting out of all dirt and degradation of our past, present, and future. — Billy Graham

New media are new archetypes, at first disguised as degradations of older media. — Marshall McLuhan

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

Homosexuality is perverse; it represents a degradation of a person's mind. — Robert Jeffress

A freak is basically anyone who needs fantasy, degradation, or punishment in order to achieve his interpretation of erotic gratification. — Xaviera Hollander

War is a blessing compared with national degradation. — Andrew Jackson

A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves. — Simone Weil

Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US. — Frederick Douglass

History is nothing but a procession of false Absolutes, a series of temples raised to pretexts, a degradation of the mind before the Improbable. — Emile M. Cioran

If we do not accept our challenges and remain in our comfort zone, then we undergo degradation — Sunday Adelaja

Having a conscience now is a grief-soaked proposition — Stephen Jenkinson

Man the law-giver will have to pay a dreadful penalty for the degradation he has imposed upon the so called weaker sex. — Mahatma Gandhi

Land degradation did not start with chemical agriculture. But chemical agriculture offered new tools for annihilation. — Joel Salatin

God's will has to be done, in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that. — Sarah Palin

Growth is a revolt against natural degradation. — Kevin Focke

Long before many of us were even conscious of our own degradation, Marcus Garvey fought for African national and racial equality. — Kwame Nkrumah

The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation. — Abu Bakr

Every kind of reward constitutes a degradation of energy. — Simone Weil

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

No one can live under degradation. — Walid Jumblatt

The philosophers of antiquity taught contempt for work, that degradation of the free man, the poets sang of idleness, that gift from the Gods. — Paul Lafargue

Class supremacy can rest only on class degradation — Jack London

he citizens must begin to work to clean the city and country of any dirt. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish. — T.H. White

Judging by my degradation in the last 24 hours, I'll be surprised if I make it to Tuesday. — Aron Ralston

I consider it a degradation and a stain on my honor to submit to baptism in order to qualify myself for state employment in Prussia. — Heinrich Heine

What is life without honor? Degradation is worse than death. — Stonewall Jackson

Leaving the world without keeping an heirloom is a degradation of the divine purpose. — Michael Bassey Johnson

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

Speaking like this doesn't mean that we're anti-white, but it does mean we're anti-exploitation, we're anti-degradation, we're anti-oppression. — Malcolm X

There's degradation of the environment. But the real issue is the degradation of one's inner environment. — Frederick Lenz

Woman's degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

For those who are not hungry, it is easy to palaver about the degradation of charity ... — Charlotte Bronte

A very large percentage of illnesses are the expressions of inadequate responses to the environment. — Rene Dubos

That's what fantasies are for: they allow you to skip the degradation and head straight to the top. — David Sedaris

Humility exalteth man to the heaven of glory and power, whilst pride abaseth him to the depths of wretchedness and degradation. — Baha'u'llah

Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defense? — Patrick Henry

I thought I wanted to be degraded, but I wanted to be degraded with love. You wanted me to talk during sex and what came out was, "You hate me. — Fiona Helmsley

Every attempt through history to limit the definition of humanity has been a prelude to the subjugation, degradation, and slaughter of innocents. — Ramez Naam

The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment. — Derrick Jensen