Top 307 Degradation Quotes & Sayings

The degradation of the sense of symbol in modern society is one of its many signs of spiritual decay.

For those who are not hungry, it is easy to palaver about the degradation of charity.

Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.

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

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

I'm no expert on pornography. The core element of it, I think, is degradation of women, whatever else goes on. I don't think it should be outlawed, but I'm not in favor of the degradation of anybody.

A foolish picture I live in disgust, degradation being eaten by lust.

My background is degradation and sloth, mostly.

The degradation of natural resources such as forests and freshwater has removed much of the resilience that societies formerly enjoyed.

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

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

Violence is the ultimate human degradation.

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

With the plundered people transferring their energies into relaxed and receptive thoughts, degradation and lust for power produced art.

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

Every kind of reward constitutes a degradation of energy.

Whether drugs lead to illumination or degradation depends on the spirit in which one takes them

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

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

War is a blessing compared with national degradation.

No one should dogmatize about the capacity of human nature for degradation or exaltation.

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

Society itself is responsible for the degradation.

So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin was fear and whose result was a degradation infinitely more terrible than that fancied degradation from which, in their ignorance, they had sought to escape.

No one can live under degradation.

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

In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.

Poverty does not produce unhappiness: It produces degradation.

All growth, progress, well - being, or degradation is but relative.

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

Make war not on terrorism but on ignorance, on sickness and on environmental degradation.

I was offered 'I'm A Celebrity...' for a lot of money, but I don't like the level of 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.

I know of no other book that so fully teaches the subjection and degradation of women.

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

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

National prosperity is another name for death and degradation to millions of other races.

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

Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish.

DEGRADATION, n. One of the stages of moral and social progress from private station to political preferment.

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.

The features that have made plastic so important in the global market are the same ones that make it such a pervasive pollutant: durability and resistance to degradation.

Man the law-giver will have to pay a dreadful penalty for the degradation he has imposed upon the so called weaker sex.

There's degradation of the environment. But the real issue is the degradation of one's inner environment.

... bringing up daughters for nothing but marriage, mingles poison in the cup of domestic life, is traitorous to the virtue of both sexes, for neither suffers alone--is adverse to the happiness, to the development of conscience and to religion, and introduces to the dwellings of wretchedness and despair. The result of this degradation is pride, intemperance, licentiousness--nay, every vice, misery, and degradation.

Marxism teaches that exploitation and degradation somehow produce resistance and revolution. It's been hard to say why. What I've learned from women's experience with sexuality is that exploitation and degradation produce grateful complicity in exchange for survival. They produce self-loathing to the point of extinction of self, and it is respect for self that makes resistance conceivable.

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

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

The ocean is our planet's life support system, yet in my travels and at home, I've seen its degradation firsthand.

Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.

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

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

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

Food and the way we grow it and produce it are a major cause of environmental degradation.

I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

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

I see myself as a human being. You're right, I am an American, I do live in Utah, and I am deeply ashamed about the decisions our President is making around the world, in our name: the war in Iraq, his continued denial about global warming, the wholesale degradation of the environment on every level. Since September 11, 2001, I have come to believe that there are many forms of terrorism, and environmental degradation is one of them. We have to transcend our government and relate to each other as human beings first and Americans second and feel both our local and global responsibilities.

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

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

I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the world.