Degradation Quotes - Page 6

• Why, since man and woman were created for each other, had He made their desires so dissimilar? Why should one class of women be able to dwell in luxurious seclusion from the trials of life, while another class performed their loathsome tasks? Surely His wisdom had not decreed that one set of women should live in degradation and in the end should perish that others might live in security, preserve their frappeed chastity, and in the end be saved.

  Madeleine Albright

  Men, Class, Desire

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• Today we find ourselves faced with the imminent end of the era of cheap oil, the prospect (beyond the recent bubble) of steadily rising commodity prices, the degradation of forests, lakes and soils, conflicts over land use, water quality, fishing rights and the momentous challenge of stabilising concentrations of carbon in the global atmosphere.

  Tim Jackson

  Commodity Prices, Rights, Fishing

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• We know what we have to do. And we know how to do it. If we fail to convert our self-destructing economy into one that is environmentally sustainable, future generations will be overwhelmed by environmental degradation and social disintegration. Simply stated, if our generation does not turn things around, our children may not have the option of doing so.

  Lester R. Brown

  Children, Our Generation, Self

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• Can we disregard the growing phenomenon of "environmental refugees", people who are forced by the degradation of their natural habitat to forsake it - and often their possessions as well - in order to face the dangers and uncertainties of forced displacement? Can we remain impassive in the face of actual and potential conflicts involving access to natural resources? All these are issues with a profound impact on the exercise of human rights, such as the right to life, food, health and development.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Exercise, Order, Issues

  Pope Benedict XVI (2014). “The Garden of God”, p.41, CUA Press

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• ... 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.

  Harriot Kezia Hunt

  Daughter, Sex, Pride

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• The degradation of our environment is undeniably a direct result of our lack of regard, lack of accountability, and lack of responsibility.

  Nikki Reed

  Responsibility, Accountability, Environment

  "19 VIPs Who Get Climate Change Better Than Congress" by Jacqueline Howard, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 4, 2015.

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• contempt for the degradation of specialization and pedantry. Specialization develops only part of a man; a man partially developed is deformed.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Men, Contempt, Specialization

  Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences”, p.56, University of Chicago Press

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• To exist as an advertisement of her husband's income, or her father's generosity, has become a second nature to many a woman who must have undergone, one would say, some long and subtle process of degradation before she sunk [sic] so low, or grovelled so serenely.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Fashion, Husband, Father

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

  Charlotte Bronte

  Charity, Hunger, Hungry

  Charlotte Bronte (2010). “Shirley and The Professor”, p.270, Everyman's Library

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• Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. With this creed, revenge never worries my heart, degradation never too deeply disgusts me, injustice never crushes me too low. I live in calm, looking to the end.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Crush, Peace, Revenge

  Charlotte Bronte (2004). “Jane Eyre”, p.26, Variocity

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• We should know that Allah has created us to live an eternal life with no death, a life of pride and ease with no humiliation, a life of security with no fear, a life of richness with no poverty, a life of joy with no pain, a life of perfection with no flaws. Allah is testing us in this world with a life that will end in death, a life of pride that is accompanied by humiliation and degradation, a life that is tainted by fear, where joy and ease are mixed with sorrow and pain.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Pain, Pride, Perfection

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

  Stonewall Jackson

  Honor, What Is Life

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• Our life is always deeper than we know, is always more divine than it seems, and hence we are able to survive degradations and despairs which otherwise must engulf us.

  William James

  Life, Survival, Despair

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• 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

  Mean, Agriculture, Environmental

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• Speaking like this doesn't mean that we're anti-white, but it does mean we're anti-exploitation, we're anti-degradation, we're anti-oppression.

  Malcolm X

  Mean, White, Justice

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• Nowhere is this challenge more critical -- and the need for action more pressing -- than in the Horn of Africa. From Kenya to Ethiopia, Djibouti to Somalia, the devastating consequences of drought, desertification and land degradation are playing out before our eyes. The worst drought in 60 years has placed more than 13.3 million people -- predominately women and children -- in need of emergency assistance.

  Rajiv Shah

  Children, Eye, Years

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• Falsehoods of convenience or vanity, falsehoods from which no evil immediately visible ensues, except the general degradation of human testimony, are very lightly uttered, and once uttered are sullenly supported.

  Samuel Johnson

  Vanity, Evil, Deceit

  Samuel Johnson (2009). “The Lives of the Poets: A Selection”, p.219, OUP Oxford

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• I can think of nothing in the world like the utter littleness, the paltriness, the contemptibleness, the degradation, of the woman who is tied down under a roof with a man who is really nothing to her; who wears the man’s name, who bears the man’s children — who plays the virtuous woman. . . . May I never, I say, become that abnormal merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity — a virtuous woman.

  Mary MacLane

  Children, Animal, Men

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• We entered a synagogue which was packed with the greatest stinking bunch of humanity I have ever seen. Either these Displaced Persons never had any sense of decency or else they lost it all during their period of internment by the Germans. My personal opinion is that no people could have sunk to the level of degradation these have reached in the short space of four years.

  George S. Patton

  Army, Space, Personal Opinions

  "After the Holocaust: Rebuilding Jewish Lives in Post War Germany". Book by Michael Brenner, 1997.

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

  Peter Weiss

  Art, People, Lust

  Peter Weiss (2005). “The Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume 1: A Novel”, p.60, Duke University Press

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• Restoration ecology is experimental science, a science of love and altruism. In its attempts to reverse the processes of ecosystem degradation it runs exactly counter to the market system, to land speculation, to the whole cultural attitude of regarding the Earth as commodity rather than community. It is a soft-souled science.

  Stephanie Mills

  Running, Attitude, Land

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• 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

  Use, Waste, Action

  Norbert Wiener (1950). “The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society”

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• Let me say it openly: we are surrounded by an enterprise of degradation, cruelty, and killing which rivals anything the Third Reich was capable of, indeed dwarfs it, in that ours is an enterprise without end, self-regenerating, bringing rabbits, rats, poultry, livestock ceaselessly into the world for the purpose of killing them.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Self, Holocaust, Rabbits

  J. M. Coetzee (2016). “The Lives of Animals: The Lives of Animals [Princeton Classics]”, p.21, Princeton University Press

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• To me it seems certain that the fatalistic teachings of Muhammad and the utter degradation of women is the outstanding cause for the arrested development of the Arab. He is exactly as he was around the year 700, while we have kept on developing.

  George S. Patton

  Teaching, Years, Islam

  "War as I Knew it". Book by George S. Patton. Part 1, Chapter 1, 1947.

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• 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

  Christian, Culture, Way

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