Degradation Quotes - Page 10

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

  Madonna Ciccone

  Media, Stupidity, Doe

  "Pop Sovereign: A Conversation With Madonna". Interview With T. Cole Rachel, pitchfork.com. March 2, 2015.

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• New media are new archetypes, at first disguised as degradations of older media.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Media, Firsts, Archetype

  Arts in society, Volume 3, (p. 240), 1964.

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• 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

  Order, Vision, World

  Stephan Lackner, Max Beckmann (1983). “Max Beckmann”, Crown Pub

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• 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

  Effort, Environmental, Development

  "In larger freedom: towards development, security and human rights for all". Report for the United Nations sixtieth anniversary summit, 2005.

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• Every time a new nation, America or Russia for instance, advances toward civilization, the human race perfects itself; every time an inferior class emerges from enslavement and degradation, the human race again perfects itself.

  Madame de Stael

  Russia, Race, Civilization

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

  Xaviera Hollander

  Order, Punishment, Erotic

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• Instead, we have found ourselves gasping for air in a sea of corruption, dysfunction, environmental degradation, waste, disenchantment and inequality—and the harder we compete, the more unequal we become.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Sea, Dysfunction, Air

  Margaret Heffernan (2014). “A Bigger Prize: How We Can Do Better than the Competition”, p.13, PublicAffairs

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

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Book, Atheism, Teach

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2002). “Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897”

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• For England must not fall: it would mean an inundation of Russian & German political degradations which would envelop the globe & steep it in a sort of Middle-Age night & slaverly which would last till Christ comes again - which I hope he will not do; he made trouble enough before.

  Mark Twain

  Fall, Mean, Night

  Mark Twain, William Dean Howells (1960). “Mark Twain-Howells letters: the correspondence of Samuel L. Clemens and William D. Howells, 1872-1910”, Belknap Press

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• The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him. Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.

  Marquis de Sade

  Happiness, Light, Joy

  Sade (marquis de), Marquis de Sade (1987). “The 120 days of Sodom and other writings”, Grove Pr

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• Such poverty as we have today in all our great cities degrades the poor, and infects with its degradation the whole neighborhood in which they live. And whatever can degrade a neighborhood can degrade a country and a continent and finally the whole civilized world, which is only a large neighborhood.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Country, Cities, World

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• Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation; it cannot be classified as an illness; we consider it to be a variation of the sexual function, produced by a certain arrest of sexual development. Many highly respectable individuals of ancient and modern times have been homosexuals, several of the greatest men among them (Plato, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, etc.). It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime--and a cruelty, too. If you do not believe me, read the books of Havelock Ellis.

  Sigmund Freud

  Plato, Believe, Book

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• In her present ignorance, woman's religion, instead of making her noble and free, by the wrong application of great principles ofright and justice, has made her bondage but more certain and lasting, her degradation more hopeless and complete.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Ignorance, Justice, Religion

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• That girls should not marry for money we are all agreed. A lady who can sell herself for a title or an estate, for an income or aset of family diamonds, treats herself as a farmer treats his sheep and oxen--makes hardly more of herself, of her own inner self, in which are comprised a mind and soul, than the poor wretch of her own sex who earns her bread in the lowest state of degradation.

  Anthony Trollope

  Marriage, Girl, Money

  Anthony Trollope (2015). “Framley Parsonage”, p.247, Booklassic

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• Muslims have been an almost entirely benevolent force in the 20th century. They did not wreak the havoc the Western powers wreaked on the world. They have not come anywhere near to the environmental degradation that we've done to the planet. So I think Muslims need to be seen in the proper light. They're mostly decent, hardworking people, people with deep family values, and they want to live in peace.

  Hamza Yusuf

  Thinking, Light, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The woman born to physical subjection and degradation can never seek or use knowledge as her birthright. Never till she holds her sex in honor, as man holds his, can she be his equal, even in her own realm.

  Mary C. Ames

  Sex, Women, Honor

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• I think history has shown that the worst way to [try to] bring people over and actually change public opinion is by insult and applied degradation of them.

  E. O. Wilson

  Thinking, People, Trying

  Source: blog.cleveland.com

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• I love my nation, I cannot see you degraded, weakened any more than you are now. Therefore I am bound for your sake and for truth's to cry, "Hold!" and to raise my voice against this degradation of my race. Give up these weakening mysticism and be strong.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Strong, Giving Up

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1143, Manonmani Publishers

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

  George Andrews

  Hippie, Illumination, Addiction

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• The fact that human beings do not put up forever with misery, humiliation, degradation, actual physical deprivation but act is a fact which every human being should know about. We are a species that makes changes.

  Tillie Olsen

  Forever, Facts, Misery

  Source: progressive.org

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

  Emile M. Cioran

  History, Mind, Temples

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Poverty

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• There appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations.

  Aga Khan IV

  Momentum, Relation, Misunderstanding

  "Islam Is a Faith of Reason". SPIEGEL Interview, www.spiegel.de. October 12, 2006.

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

  Frederick Douglass

  Ignorance, People, Evil

  Frederick Douglass, Philip Sheldon Foner, Yuval Taylor (1999). “Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.214, Chicago Review Press

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• We are all addicts in various stages of degradation where I live on the Upper West Side, some to heroin, some to small dogs, and some to the New York Times. The heroin is cut, the dogs are paranoid, and the Times cheats by skimping on the West Coast ball scores. No matter, each of us goes upon the street solely in pursuit of his own particular curse.

  Murray Kempton

  Dog, New York, Cutting

  Murray Kempton (1994). “Rebellions, perversities, and main events”, Crown

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