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The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation. -- Abu Bakr
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves. -- Simone Weil
Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? -- Patrick Henry
Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
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
In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families. -- Wangari Maathai
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
What is life without honor? Degradation is worse than death. -- Stonewall Jackson
Whoever degrades another degrades me. -- Walt Whitman
No one can live under degradation. -- Walid Jumblatt
War is a blessing compared with national degradation. -- Andrew Jackson
I think I would much rather push the boundaries of the degradation that the characters face. -- Dave Rowntree
Judging by my degradation in the last 24 hours, I'll be surprised if I make it to Tuesday. -- Aron Ralston
One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. -- Alice James
Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders. -- Warren Christopher
People who need therapy are in Afghanistan. They've seen horrible human cruelty and degradation, but they don't have time or the money for therapy. -- David Chase
And we need to maintain our foothold in the fight against terrorism and terrorist groups and respond to any degradation of Iraqi security or stability. -- Rick Larsen
Well, for starters, we have to do more to create demand for new technologies that can reduce our dependence on foreign oil and environmental degradation. -- Sherwood Boehlert
The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness. -- Victor Hugo
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
The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation, because in the degradation of women, the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source. -- Lucretia Mott
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
What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed. -- Fay Godwin
The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source. -- Lucretia Mott
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
We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Unprecedented technological capabilities combined with unlimited human creativity have given us tremendous power to take on intractable problems like poverty, unemployment, disease, and environmental degradation. Our challenge is to translate this extraordinary potential into meaningful change. -- Muhammad Yunus
Grave security concerns can arise as a result of demographic trends, chronic poverty, economic inequality, environmental degradation, pandemic diseases, organized crime, repressive governance and other developments no state can control alone. Arms can't address such concerns. -- Ban Ki-moon
As in any person's life, there have been difficult moments: I have a son with Down's syndrome; through my photography, I have witnessed all manner of human degradation. But there have also been very happy moments. -- Sebastiao Salgado
Peace should be understood in a human way - in a broad social, political and economic way. Peace is threatened by unjust economic, social and political order, absence of democracy, environmental degradation and absence of human rights. -- Muhammad Yunus
That only a few, under any circumstances, protest against the injustice of long-established laws and customs, does not disprove the fact of the oppressions, while the satisfaction of the many, if real only proves their apathy and deeper degradation. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Thank God that at least in one place, all men are equal: in the church of God. I do not consider it any degradation to kneel side by side with a Negro in the house of our Heavenly Father. -- Roger B. Taney
Israel is following policies which maximise its security threats... policies which choose expansion over security... policies which lead to their moral degradation, their isolation, their delegitimation, as they call it now, and very likely ultimate destruction. That's not impossible. -- Noam Chomsky
But it will be said that the husband provides for the wife, or in other words, he feeds, clothes and shelters her! I wish I had the power to make every one before me fully realize the degradation contained in that idea. -- Ernestine Rose
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
Why is it that scuba divers and surfers are some of the strongest advocates of ocean conservation? Because they've spent time in and around the ocean, and they've personally seen the beauty, the fragility, and even the degradation of our planet's blue heart. -- Sylvia Earle
So long as the most vulnerable people in our population are consigned to places that the rest of us will always shun and flee and view with fear, I am afraid that educational denial, medical and economic devastation, and aesthetic degradation will be inevitable. -- Jonathan Kozol
Some experts look at global warming, increased world temperature, as the critical tipping point that is causing a crash in coral reef health around the world. And there's no question that it is a factor, but it's preceded by the loss of resilience and degradation. -- Sylvia Earle
I have come to the conclusion that it's a waste of time to have too much pride in anything. Perhaps it's good to have a sense of duty, a jealous zeal to protect or improve, but pride ultimately is only that which stands vulnerable to offense and degradation. -- Henry Rollins
We see evidence that lakes and forests and wetlands can have different equilibria - so you have a savanna system that may be stable and thriving, but it can also tip over and become an arid steppe if pushed too far by warming, land degradation, and biodiversity loss. -- Johan Rockstrom
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
Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness. -- Mahatma Gandhi
So many times I've photographed stories that show the degradation of the planet. I had one idea to go and photograph the factories that were polluting, and to see all the deposits of garbage. But, in the end, I thought the only way to give us an incentive, to bring hope, is to show the pictures of the pristine planet - to see the innocence. -- Sebastiao Salgado
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
Violence is the ultimate human degradation. -- Ramsey Clark
My background is degradation and sloth, mostly. -- Larry David
Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation. -- Charlotte Bronte
Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation. -- George Bernard Shaw
Poverty does not produce unhappiness: It produces degradation. -- George Bernard Shaw
Every kind of reward constitutes a degradation of energy. -- Simone Weil
Our political system cannot stop the degradation of our culture. -- Rush Limbaugh
Our political system cannot stop the degradation of our culture. -- Rush Limbaugh
All growth, progress, well - being, or degradation is but relative. -- Swami Vivekananda
A foolish picture I live in disgust, degradation being eaten by lust. -- Ozzy Osbourne
...only the unscrupulous or shortsighted can defend pollution and degradation of the countryside. -- Russell Kirk
Make war not on terrorism but on ignorance, on sickness and on environmental degradation. -- Kurt Vonnegut
National prosperity is another name for death and degradation to millions of other races. -- Swami Vivekananda
No one should dogmatize about the capacity of human nature for degradation or exaltation. -- Mahatma Gandhi
As much good as it does, social media can also encourage stupidity and degradation. -- Madonna Ciccone
Pardon me, dear human self, capable of the most heinous degradation, capable of soaring. -- Sena Jeter Naslund
The degradation to which you subject others comes back, sooner or later, to haunt you, -- Ken Follett
Every individual or national degeneration is immediately revealed by a directly proportional degradation in language. -- Joseph de Maistre
For those who are not hungry, it is easy to palaver about the degradation of charity ... -- Charlotte Bronte
Whether drugs lead to illumination or degradation depends on the spirit in which one takes them -- George Andrews
I know of no other book that so fully teaches the subjection and degradation of women. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Land degradation did not start with chemical agriculture. But chemical agriculture offered new tools for annihilation. -- Joel Salatin
That which commands admiration in the white woman only hastens the degradation of the female slave. -- Patricia Hill Collins
There's degradation of the environment. But the real issue is the degradation of one's inner environment. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
There appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations. -- Aga Khan IV
The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment. -- Derrick Jensen
In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced. -- Barry Commoner
Food and the way we grow it and produce it are a major cause of environmental degradation. -- Jose Andres Puerta
DEGRADATION, n. One of the stages of moral and social progress from private station to political preferment. -- Ambrose Bierce
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
Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish. -- T.H. White
One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. -- Alice James
The degradation of the sense of symbol in modern society is one of its many signs of spiritual decay. -- Thomas Merton
"Secret migration" across borders is a form of human degradation and evidence of the depravity of the human conscience. -- Hassan Blasim
With the plundered people transferring their energies into relaxed and receptive thoughts, degradation and lust for power produced art. -- Peter Weiss
The ocean is our planet's life support system, yet in my travels and at home, I've seen its degradation firsthand. -- Greg MacGillivray
I was offered 'I'm A Celebrity...' for a lot of money, but I don't like the level of degradation. -- Vinnie Jones
A freak is basically anyone who needs fantasy, degradation, or punishment in order to achieve his interpretation of erotic gratification. -- Xaviera Hollander
Man cannot degrade woman without himself falling into degradation; he cannot elevate her without at the same time elevating himself. -- Alexander Walker
contempt for the degradation of specialization and pedantry. Specialization develops only part of a man; a man partially developed is deformed. -- Richard M. Weaver
Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US. -- Frederick Douglass
Denial of climate change and degradation of environment for the purpose of economic prosperity is humiliation and slavery of the nature. -- M.F. Moonzajer
Long before many of us were even conscious of our own degradation, Marcus Garvey fought for African national and racial equality. -- Kwame Nkrumah
The work of bestial degradation, begun by the victorious Germans, had been carried to its conclusion by the Germans in defeat. -- Primo Levi
I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. -- Alice James
I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the world. -- Charles Dickens
No future life could heal the degradation of having been a woman. Religion in the world had nothing but insults for women. -- Dorothy Richardson
Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered the most from the gradual degradation of the idea of liberty. -- Albert Camus
The degradation of our environment is undeniably a direct result of our lack of regard, lack of accountability, and lack of responsibility. -- Nikki Reed
Before Israel dies, it must be humiliated and degraded. Allah willing, before they die, they will experience humiliation and degradation every day. -- Khaled Mashal
Man the law-giver will have to pay a dreadful penalty for the degradation he has imposed upon the so called weaker sex. -- Mahatma Gandhi
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
Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
When a religion or ideology becomes dominant, the lack of controls will result in widening spirals of license leading to degradation and corruption. -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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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
The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation. -- Marquis de Sade
If we feel the least degradation in being amorous, or merry or hungry, or sleepy, we are so far bad animals & miserable men. -- William Morris
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
The philosophers of antiquity taught contempt for work, that degradation of the free man, the poets sang of idleness, that gift from the Gods. -- Paul Lafargue
Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation, it cannot be classified as an illness. -- Sigmund Freud
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
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. -- Heinrich Heine
... 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
The degradation, the wrongs, the vices, that grow out of slavery, are more than I can describe. They are greater than you would willingly believe. -- Harriet Ann Jacobs
A Soviet man is a product of invisible changes, degradation and progressive deformation. Breaking the chain of those changes is hard. Perhaps they are irreversible. -- Merab Mamardashvili
You cannot change someone using fear, degradation, humiliation, or by comparing them to others. It can only be done through love, with love, for love. -- Suzy Kassem
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
Nothing in our society-with the exception of violence and fear-has been more effective in keeping women in their place than the degradation of the menstrual cycle. -- Christiane Northrup
However important the struggle is and however much misery and poverty and degradation exist, we know that it cannot be more important than one human life. -- Cesar Chavez
You cannot change someone using fear, degradation, humiliation, or by comparing them to others. It can only be done through love, with love, for love. Love. -- Suzy Kassem
Woman's degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The clergy, no less than the capitalist class, lives on the backs of the people, profits from the degradation, the ignorance and the oppression of the people. -- Rosa Luxemburg
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
The environmental movement could do a better job incorporating the message about the connection between poverty and environmental degradation, and building that message at the grassroots level. -- Helene D. Gayle
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

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