Degradation famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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It is the system, rather than individuals, that is the source of pollution and degradation. My prison-house environment is but another manifestation of the Midas-hand, whose cursed touch turns everything to the brutal service of Mammon.
-- Alexander Berkman -
One of the reasons that women are kept in a state of economic degradation- because that's what it is for most women- is because that is the best way to keep women sexually available.
-- Andrea Dworkin -
War is a blessing compared with national degradation.
-- Andrew Jackson -
The assault on our body image, the hypersexualization of girls and women and subsequent degradation of our sexuality as we walk through the decades, and the general incessant objectification is what this conversation allegedly about my face is really about.
-- Ashley Judd -
In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.
-- Barry Commoner -
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 -
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.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
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.
-- Christiane Northrup -
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 -
The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment.
-- Derrick Jensen -
I know of no other book that so fully teaches the subjection and degradation of women.
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton -
The audience too should be respected by being presented with a film as they remember it, and for those who have not seen it, as it was intended to be seen. Anything less is a degradation of the film and its audience.
-- George Stevens -
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 -
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 -
Every individual or national degeneration is immediately revealed by a directly proportional degradation in language.
-- Joseph de Maistre -
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.
-- Joshua Reynolds -
The degradation to which you subject others comes back, sooner or later, to haunt you,
-- Ken Follett -
Before Israel dies, it must be humiliated and degraded. Allah willing, before they die, they will experience humiliation and degradation every day.
-- Khaled Mashal -
Long before many of us were even conscious of our own degradation, Marcus Garvey fought for African national and racial equality.
-- Kwame Nkrumah -
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.
-- Lucretia Mott -
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.
-- Mas Oyama -
I have never, God or whatever knows, prostrated myself to be famous, but I would meander through all the sewers of the world, through all degradations and humiliations, in order to paint. I have to do this. Until the last drop every vision that exists in my being must be purged; then it will be a pleasure for me to be rid of this damned torture
-- Max Beckmann -
Prison is a second-by-second assault on the soul, a day-to-day degradation of the self, an oppressive steel and brick umbrella that transforms seconds into hours and hours into days.
-- Mumia Abu-Jamal -
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.
-- Nancy Pearcey -
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 -
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 -
The smell of death overwhelmed us even before we passed through the stockade. More than 3200 naked, emaciated bodies had been flung into shallow graves. Others lay in the streets where they had fallen. ... Eisenhower's face whitened into a mask. Patton walked over to a corner and sickened. I was too revolted to speak. For here death had been so fouled by degradation that it both stunned and numbed us. ...
-- Omar N. Bradley -
That which commands admiration in the white woman only hastens the degradation of the female slave.
-- Patricia Hill Collins -
Business is the only mechanism on the planet today powerful enough to produce the changes necessary to reverse global environments and social degradation.
-- Paul Hawken -
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 -
It saddens me to see the reality-television shows that are getting so much fanfare that are a celebration of stupidity and the degradation of women. And those women are consistently wearing too short, too tight dresses. I hope the trend of aging gracefully returns.
-- Prabal Gurung -
The work of ***** degradation, begun by the victorious Germans, had been carried to its conclusion by the Germans in defeat.
-- Primo Levi -
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 -
...only the unscrupulous or shortsighted can defend pollution and degradation of the countryside.
-- Russell Kirk -
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.
-- Sebastiao Salgado -
Pardon me, dear human self, capable of the most heinous degradation, capable of soaring.
-- Sena Jeter Naslund -
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.
-- Suzy Kassem -
The only religion that ought to be taught is the religion of fearlessness. Either in this world or in the world of religion, it is true that fear is the sure cause of degradation and sin. It is fear that brings misery, fear that brings death, fear that breeds evil. And what causes fear? Ignorance of our own nature.
-- Swami Vivekananda -
Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish.
-- T. H. White -
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.
-- T. S. Eliot -
I was offered 'I'm A Celebrity...' for a lot of money, but I don't like the level of degradation.
-- Vinnie Jones -
Policies are being pursued that place on the same level a multi-child family and a same-sex partnership, a faith in God and a belief in Satan. This is the path to degradation.
-- Vladimir Putin -
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 -
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 -
Culture is a matrix of infinite possibilities and choices. From within the same culture matrix we can extract arguments and strategies for the degradation and ennoblement of our species, for its enslavement or liberation, for the suppression of its productive potential or its enhancement.
-- Wole Soyinka -
"Secret migration" across borders is a form of human degradation and evidence of the depravity of the human conscience.
-- Hassan Blasim -
The best armor is to keep out of range.
-- Abraham J. Twerski -
... 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.
-- Anandi Gopal Joshi -
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 -
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 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.
-- Helene D. Gayle
