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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
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
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
She couldn't get that the fucking itself wasn't degrading. The intentional degradation was degrading. And hot.
— C.D. Reiss
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
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
Class supremacy can rest only on class degradation
— Jack London
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
Having a conscience now is a grief-soaked proposition
— Stephen Jenkinson
If we do not accept our challenges and remain in our comfort zone, then we undergo degradation
— Sunday Adelaja
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
Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
— Frederick Douglass
The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment.
— Derrick Jensen
What is life without honor? Degradation is worse than death.
— Stonewall Jackson
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
That's what fantasies are for: they allow you to skip the degradation and head straight to the top.
— David Sedaris
A very large percentage of illnesses are the expressions of inadequate responses to the environment.
— Rene Dubos
For those who are not hungry, it is easy to palaver about the degradation of charity ...
— Charlotte Bronte
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
There's degradation of the environment. But the real issue is the degradation of one's inner environment.
— Frederick Lenz
No one should dogmatize about the capacity of human nature for degradation or exaltation.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Leaving the world without keeping an heirloom is a degradation of the divine purpose.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
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
Judging by my degradation in the last 24 hours, I'll be surprised if I make it to Tuesday.
— Aron Ralston
he citizens must begin to work to clean the city and country of any dirt.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
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
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
No one can live under degradation.
— Walid Jumblatt
National prosperity is another name for death and degradation to millions of other races.
— Swami Vivekananda
The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
— Frederick Douglass
Violence is the ultimate human degradation.
— Ramsey Clark
The city is dirty due to the laziness of the citizens in the country.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
This abattement and degradation did not take place all at once; it was brought about by degrees
— William Makepeace Thackeray
Man cannot degrade woman without himself falling into degradation; he cannot elevate her without at the same time elevating himself.
— Alexander Walker
In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.
— Barry Commoner
Nothing can ever fix nature' not even all monies in the world and money rules, are never worthy following.
— Auliq Ice
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
I know of no other book that so fully teaches the subjection and degradation of women.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the world.
— Charles Dickens
Living in filth is dark doom. The light of awaken leads to cleanliness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Food and the way we grow it and produce it are a major cause of environmental degradation.
— Jose Andres
Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered the most from the gradual degradation of the idea of liberty.
— Albert Camus
The ones who chose to live free of inconvenience by tolerating the agony and degradation of others?
— Robin Hobb
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
War is a blessing compared with national degradation.
— Andrew Jackson
A freak is basically anyone who needs fantasy, degradation, or punishment in order to achieve his interpretation of erotic gratification.
— Xaviera Hollander
What degradation lay in being young.
— Daphne Du Maurier
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
Contempt for the degradation of specialization and pedantry. Specialization develops only part of a man; a man partially developed is deformed.
— Richard M. Weaver
DEGRADATION, n. One of the stages of moral and social progress from private station to political preferment.
— Ambrose Bierce
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
— Simone Weil
Only the unscrupulous or shortsighted can defend pollution and degradation of the countryside.
— Russell Kirk
The best armor is to keep out of range.
— Abraham J. Twerski
No future life could heal the degradation of having been a woman. Religion in the world had nothing but insults for women.
— Dorothy Richardson
Every individual or national degeneration is immediately revealed by a directly proportional degradation in language.
— Joseph De Maistre
As much good as it does, social media can also encourage stupidity and degradation.
— Madonna Ciccone
That which commands admiration in the white woman only hastens the degradation of the female slave.
— Patricia Hill Collins
