Degradation Quotes

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

Cannot, Last, Defense

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.
Victor Hugo

Women, Great, Through

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

Others, Act, Ourselves

War is a blessing compared with national degradation.
Andrew Jackson

War, Blessing, National

I believe we need to attract a new generation of the best and brightest to public service and I believe that government can be a source of inspiration, not degradation.
Andrew Cuomo

Best, Government, Service

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

Humility, Fall, Victim

So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.
William Morris

Life, Art, Long

My background is degradation and sloth, mostly.
Larry David

Background, Sloth, Mostly

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

Life, Today, Place

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

Problems, Nation, Stop

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

Life, Simply, Duty

Reclaiming the word 'fat' was the most empowering step in my progress. I stopped using it for insult or degradation and instead replaced it with truth, because the truth is that I am fat, and that's ok. So now when someone calls me fat, I agree, whereas before I would get embarrassed and emotional.
Beth Ditto

Truth, Emotional, Someone

In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.
Wangari Maathai

Women, Food, Looking

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.
Gifford Pinchot

Failure, After, Progress

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

Time, Woman, Same

The fundamental driving force for me is to create a change in the world we live in... It is about exploitation, plundering and degradation. I have a small possibility to participate in the resistance. Most of the things that I do are part of a resistance, a form of solidarity work.
Henning Mankell

Change, Work, Live

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 at their source.
Lucretia Mott

Life, Great, Woman

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.
Norman Ralph Augustine

High, Achieve, Ten

The national debate on health care once centered on improving access to quality care, yet the effect of Obamacare will be the exact opposite, resulting in the shameful degradation of care for the neediest individuals.
Fred Upton

Health, Care, Once

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.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

History, Woman, Nothing

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

Judging, Last, Hours

One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
Alice James

Experience, Human, After

The Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act of 2004 helps address the continuing degradation on the broadcast airwaves and helps send a clear message to the broadcast industry that Alabama families, like the rest of American families, have had enough.
Mike Rogers

Enough, American, Act

For the record, I am sticking with my claim that the simultaneous degradation of air quality, water quality, water supply, food safety, soil quality, and other environment-related variables is the main challenge to China's continued development.
James Fallows

Food, Challenge, Water

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

Time, Money, Human

No one can live under degradation.
Walid Jumblatt

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.
Rick Larsen

Fight, Against, Security

Well, for starters, we have to do more to create demand for new technologies that can reduce our dependence on foreign oil and environmental degradation.
Sherwood Boehlert

Create, Foreign, Oil

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.
Fay Godwin

Greed, Farming, Pollution

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

Rather, Face, Boundaries

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