Degradation Quotes - Page 2

• Land degradation did not start with chemical agriculture. But chemical agriculture offered new tools for annihilation.

  Joel Salatin

  Land, Agriculture, Tools

  "Interview: Joel Salatin" by Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2010.

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• If all boys could be made to know that with every breath of cigarette smoke they inhale imbecility and exhale manhood ... and that the cigarette is a maker of invalids, criminals and fools-not men-it ought to deter them some. The yellow finger stain is an emblem of deeper degradation and enslavement than the ball and chain.

  Hudson Maxim

  Boys, Men, Cigarette Smoke

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• For a long time—always, in fact—I have known that life here on earth is not what I needed and that I wasn’t able to deal with it; for this reason and for this reason alone, I have acquired a touch of spiritual pride, so that my existence seems to me the degradation and the erosion of a psalm.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Spiritual, Pride, Erosion

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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• Without the suitable conditions life could not exist. But both life and its conditions set forth the operations of inscrutable Power. We know not its origin; we know not its end. And the presumption, if not the degradation, rests with those who place upon the throne of the universe a magnified image of themselves, and make its doings a mere colossal imitation of their own. Wonder was the motive that led people to philosophy ... wonder is a kind of desire in knowledge. It is the cause of delight because it carries with it the hope of discovery.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Philosophy, Knowledge, Discovery

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• How many we know who have fled the sweetness of a tranquil life in their homes, among the friends, to seek the horror of uninhabitable deserts; who have flung themselves into humiliation, degradation, and the contempt of the world, and have enjoyed these and even sought them out.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Home, Desert, World

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.42, Stanford University Press

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• 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

  Reality, Stupidity, Trends

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Reclaiming the word fat was the most empowering step in my progress. I stopped using it for insult or degradation and instead replaced it with truth, because the truth is that I am fat, and that's ok. So now when someone calls me fat, I agree, whereas before I would get embarrassed and emotional.

  Beth Ditto

  Emotional, Empowering, Progress

  "What would Beth Ditto do?" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. November 23, 2007.

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• My background is degradation and sloth, mostly.

  Larry David

  Sloth, Backgrounds

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• Call a thing immoral or ugly, soul-destroying or a degradation to man, a peril to the peace of the world or to the well-being of future generations: as long as you have not shown it to be "uneconomic" you have not really questioned its right to exist, grow, and prosper.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Men, Long, Soul

  Small is Beautiful (1973) pt. 1, ch. 3

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• All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

  Aristotle

  Jobs, Business, Work

  "Politics". Book by Aristotle. Book VIII 1337b.5. "The Politics of Aristotle: Introduction and translation", Clarendon Press, 1885.

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• I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Philosophy, Party, Men

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.410, Cambridge University Press

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• No matter who you are, the thought of so much suffering and degradation must cause you to shudder at the sight of a veil or cassock, those two shrouds of human invention.

  Victor Hugo

  Sight, Two, Suffering

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.

  William Morris

  Art, Mean, Civilization

  William Morris, May Morris (2012). “The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris”, p.172, Cambridge University Press

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• 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

  Aggravation, Remember, Film

  George Cooper Stevens, Paul Cronin (2004). “George Stevens: Interviews”, p.12, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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

  Simone Weil

  Kindness, Optimistic, Mean People

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.72, Psychology Press

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• Slave power crushes freedom of speech and of opinion. Slave power degrades labor. Slave power is arrogant, is jealous and intrusive, is cruel, is despotic, not only over the slave but over the community, the state.

  Elizabeth Van Lew

  Crush, Freedom, Jealous

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• I believe we need to attract a new generation of the best and brightest to public service and I believe that government can be a source of inspiration, not degradation.

  Andrew Cuomo

  Believe, Inspiration, Government

  FaceBook post by Governor Andrew Cuomo from Nov 08, 2016

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

  Lewis Mumford

  Life, Aggravation, Sacred

  Lewis Mumford (2016). “The Culture of Cities”, p.38, Open Road Media

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• No one can live under degradation.

  Walid Jumblatt

  Aggravation

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• War is a blessing compared with national degradation.

  Andrew Jackson

  War, Blessing, Aggravation

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Patrick Henry

  Gun, Aggravation, Second Amendment

  "The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution: Volume 3". Book by Jonathan Elliot, 1836.

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• 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

  Pay The Price, Practice, Aggravation

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• 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

  Errors, Want, World

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

  Joseph de Maistre

  Language, Individual, Degeneration

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• 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

  Motivational, Strength, Ignorance

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Lectures from Colombo to Almora”, p.72, editionNEXT.com

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