A Quote by Charlotte Bronte

Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.

Charlotte Bronte

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Degradation Me Poverty Synonymous

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Charlotte Bronte
British - Novelist
April 21, 1816 - March 31, 1855

Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.

George Bernard Shaw

Poverty does not produce unhappiness: It produces degradation.

George Bernard Shaw

From a planning perspective, economic degradation begets environmental degradation, which begets social degradation.

Majora Carter

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

Frederick Douglass

what about Christianity? Are we right in the face of so long a record of its poverty in international achievement, to keep invoking it as a standard, almost synonymous with civilization?

Rose Macaulay

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

Irene Rosenfeld

To make 'depression' synonymous with 'dangerous' is as bad as saying 'Muslim' is synonymous with 'terrorist.'

Matt Haig

Obviously, like Wembley is synonymous with tennis, snooker is synonymous with Sheffield.

Richard Caborn

All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated.

Kofi Annan

What is quite worrisome is the absence of analysis and reflection. Take the word "terrorism." It has become synonymous now with anti-Americanism, which, in turn, has become synonymous with being critical of the United States, which, in turn, has become synonymous with being unpatriotic. That's an unacceptable series of equations.

Edward Said

There can be no peace as long as there is grinding poverty, social injustice, inequality, oppression, environmental degradation, and as long as the weak and small continue to be trodden by the mighty and powerful.

Dalai Lama

The essential role of the environment is still marginal in discussions about poverty. While we continue to debate these initiatives, environmental degradation, including the loss of biodiversity and topsoil, accelerates, causing development efforts to falter.

Wangari Maathai

Many say our world is at a tipping point. If we do not act together, if we do not act responsibly, if we do not act now, we risk slipping into a cycle of poverty, degradation, and despair.

Ban Ki-moon

Quantitative methods are no more synonymous with objectivity than qualitative methods are synonymous with subjectivity.

Mike Patton

However important the struggle is and however much misery and poverty and degradation exist, we know that it cannot be more important than one human life.