Degradation Quotes - Page 8

• No future life could heal the degradation of having been a woman. Religion in the world had nothing but insults for women.

  Dorothy Richardson

  Women, Religion, World

  Dorothy Miller Richardson (1919). “The Tunnel”

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• ... no man or woman should depend upon another for maintenance and necessaries. Family discord and social degradation will never end till each depends upon herself.

  Anandi Gopal Joshi

  Men, Maintenance, Social

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• It would have been a joy to me to be smiled upon, loved, encouraged, welcomed, and to obtain what I was so ready to give, kindness and goodwill. But to hunt down consideration and reputation - to force the esteem of others - seemed to me an effort unworthy of myself, almost a degradation.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Kindness, Giving, Joy

  "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel". Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.

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• Gradually we come to admit that Shakespeare understands a greater extent and variety of human life than Dante; but that Dante understands deeper degrees of degradation and higher degrees of exaltation.

  T. S. Eliot

  Exaltation, Degrees, Human Life

  T.S. Eliot (1950). “Selected Essays”

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• 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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• 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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• The Vedic literatures predicted that after the advent of Lord Caitanya five hundred years ago, there would be a Golden Age of ten thousand years, when the chanting of the holy names of God would completely nullify all the degradations of the modern age, and real spiritual peace would come to this planet.

  Mukunda Goswami

  Spiritual, Real, Years

  "Interview with George Harrison". September 4, 1982.

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• What concerns me most is the horrible degradation our notions of truth, civility, and decency have undergone. Also the way that language has been malformed - we have been overcome with banality and the cynical misuse of language. When a candidate runs a campaign on a series of dog-whistles to bigots, then turns around and talks about "healing the wounds of division," that is right out of Orwell.

  George Saunders

  Running, Dog, Healing

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• 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.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Experts, Elements

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Being myself animated by feelings of affection toward my fellowmen, I am saddened by the modern system of advertising. Whatever evidence it offers of enterprise, ingenuity, impudence, and resource in certain individuals, it proves to my mind the wide prevalence of that form of mental degradation which is called gullibility.

  Joseph Conrad

  Sadness, Feelings, Mind

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “A Set of Six”, p.103, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Every woman whether rich or poor, married or single, has a circle of influence within which, according to her character, she is exerting a certain amount of power for good or harm. Every woman, by her virtue or her vice, by her folly or her wisdom, by her levity or her dignity, is adding something to our national elevation or degradation. A community is not likely to be overthrown where woman fulfills her mission, for by the power of her noble heart over the hearts of others, she will raise that community from its ruins and restore it again to prosperity and joy.

  John Angell James

  Heart, Character, Rich Or Poor

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• As my friend Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe has argued persuasively, there is an element of positivity in the visible world, and in color particularly, that totally eludes the historicity of language, with its protocols of absence and polarity. The color red, as an attribute of the world, is always there. It is something other than the absence of yellow and blue--and, thus, when that red becomes less red, it becomes more one or the other. It never exists in a linguistic condition of degradation or excess that must necessarily derive from our expectations.

  Dave Hickey

  Positivity, Blue, Color

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• I ask the political economists and the moralists if they have ever calculated the number of individuals who must be condemned to misery, overwork, demoralisation, degradation, rank ignorance, overwhelming misfortune and utter penury in order to produce one rich man.

  Almeida Garrett

  Ignorance, Men, Order

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  Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole

  Karl Marx

  Ignorance, Opposites, Agony

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.709, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Business is the only mechanism on the planet today powerful enough to produce the changes necessary to reverse global environments and social degradation.

  Paul Hawken

  Powerful, Today, Environment

  Commonwealth Club of San Francisco Speech, www.theguardian.com. 1992.

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• 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

  Powerful, Long, Environmental

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• Human beings are capable of virtually limitless degradation; they are also capable of virtually limitless improvement and achievement. Success depends on goals and on diligence in pursuing them.

  Mas Oyama

  Goal, Achievement, Improvement

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

  Swami Vivekananda

  Growth, Progress, Well Being

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3533, Manonmani Publishers

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• Environmental degradation is one of the biggest challenges we have. I think a question that we're not asking ourselves is: 'Isn't humanity committing suicide with this indiscriminate and tyrannical use of nature?'

  Pope Francis

  Suicide, Happy Life, Thinking

  "12* Powerful Climate Allies That GOP Denier Leaders Can’t Ignore" by Amanda Hanley, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 18, 2014.

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

  Ambrose Bierce

  Political, Progress, Moral

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.43, 谷月社

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

  Russell Kirk

  Conservative, Pollution, Countryside

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• When we hit a nail with a hammer, the whole of the shock received by the large head of the nail passes into the point without any of it being lost, although it is only a point. If the hammer and the head of the nail were infinitely big it would be just the same. The point of the nail would transmit this infinite shock at the point to which it was applied. Extreme affliction, which means physical pain, distress of soul and social degradation, all at the same time, constitutes the nail. The point is applied at the very center of the soul, whose head is all necessity, spreading throughout space and time.

  Simone Weil

  Pain, Mean, Space

  "Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)".

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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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