Degradation Quotes

Degradation Quote of the day

... no man or woman should depend upon another for maintenance and necessaries. Family discord and social degradation will never end till each depends upon herself.

Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole

The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation, because in the degradation of women, the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.

Human beings are capable of virtually limitless degradation; they are also capable of virtually limitless improvement and achievement. Success depends on goals and on diligence in pursuing them.

Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day

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 farming and greed.

The best armor is to keep out of range.

Long before many of us were even conscious of our own degradation, these men [Marcus Garvey and W. E. B. DuBois] fought for African national and racial equality.

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

Business is the only mechanism on the planet today powerful enough to produce the changes necessary to reverse global environments and social degradation.

What is life without honor? Degradation is worse than death.

The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.

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

That which commands admiration in the white woman only hastens the degradation of the female slave.

Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders.

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

Are we at last brought to such an humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?

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

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.

The clergy, no less than the capitalist class, lives on the backs of the people, profits from the degradation, the ignorance and the oppression of the people.

The degradation to which you subject others comes back, sooner or later, to haunt you.

Whoever degrades another degrades me.

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

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

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.

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

Violence is the ultimate human degradation.

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

Nothing in our society-with the exception of violence and fear-has been more effective in keeping women in their place than the degradation of the menstrual cycle.

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

Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation, it cannot be classified as an illness.

...only the unscrupulous or shortsighted can defend pollution and degradation of the countryside.

It's clear that agriculture, done right, is the best means the world has today to simultaneously tackle food security, poverty and environmental degradation.

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

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

I think I would much rather push the boundaries of the degradation that the characters face.

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

To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.

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

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

It is very expensive to achieve high unreliability. It is not uncommon to increase the cost of an item by a factor of ten for each factor of ten degradation accomplished.

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. Love.

We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.

I think history has shown that the worst way to [try to] bring people over and actually change public opinion is by insult and applied degradation of them.

My advice to everybody would be to go out as much as possible and deal with social inequality and environmental degradation because these issues are increasingly prescient.

If the power of the Gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of the land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without mitigation or end.

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

My background is degradation and sloth, mostly.

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

And we need to maintain our foothold in the fight against terrorism and terrorist groups and respond to any degradation of Iraqi security or stability.