Quotes About Degradation
C'est un monde fait pour des monomaniaques obsédés par l'idée de progrès... mais d'un faux progrès qui pue. C'est un monde encombré d'objets inutiles que, pour mieux les exploiter et les dégrader, on a enseigné aux homes et femmes à considérer comme utiles.
~ Henry Miller
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The life which, if i were still a man with pride, honor, ambition and so forth, would seem like the bottom rung of degredation. It's a negative reality, just like death -- a sort of heaven without the pain and terror of dying.
~ Henry Miller
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When I look down into this fucked out cunt of a whore I feel the whole world beneath me, a world tottering and crumbling, a world used up and polished like a leper's skull.
~ Henry Miller
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She crowned him with a whisky bottle and her tongue was full of lice and tomorrows.
~ Henry Miller
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The most ignorant and degenerate of them will be asked to shoulder a gun and fight for a civilization which has brought them nothing but misery and degradation.
~ Henry Miller
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The ocean is our planet's life support system, yet in my travels and at home, I've seen its degradation firsthand.
~ Greg MacGillivray
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I believe the most degrading thing in the world is to be treated worse than a starving dog by five growling, muscle-bound thugs, better known as screws!
~ Stephen Richards
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Theres a hole in the world like a great black pit and its filled with people who are filled with shit
~ Stephen Sondheim
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dragon" implies a hideous denial of its fundamental principles that are "like a lamb," internal degradation, and the use of satanic force. Human rights will be violated. Cruelty will reign supreme. The mark will be enforced. That's what the Bible says.
~ Steve Wohlberg
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My background is degradation and sloth, mostly.
~ Larry David
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Even the deepest point in the ocean is littered with trash: a grocery bag was recently seen drifting along the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
~ Michio Kaku
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There's something evil in me that loves evil and degradation--purity's black backside! That loves honesty with a horrid love; or why have I always gone seeking it at the liar's door?
~ Djuna Barnes
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I'm an actor, so I love to be degraded!
~ Emmy Rossum
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Everything has been degraded by what the sensory overload and the supposed freedom-of-choice technology has brought to us, and, in short, by the democratization of the arts.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
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Nnaife did not realise that Dr Meers's laughter was inspired by that type of wickedness that reduces any man, white or black, intelligent or not, to a new low; lower than the basest of animals, for animals at least respected each other's feelings, each other's dignity.
~ Buchi Emecheta
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With 'Nostromo', Joseph Conrad said that he had wanted to write a novel about the degradation of an idea. That's what we wanted to show in the case of Dustin Hoffman's character, Bernstein.
~ David Milch
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Around 40 percent of the world's agricultural land is now seriously degraded, and by 2025 two out of three people worldwide will live in water-stressed regions.
~ Kate Raworth
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a study of all 50 U.S. States found that those states marked out by large inequalities of power in terms of income and ethnicity had weaker environmental policies and suffered greater ecological degradation. Furthermore, one study covering 50 countries found the more unequal a country is, the more likely the biodiversity of its landscape is to be under threat.
~ Kate Raworth
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Marriage requires a radical commitment to love our spouses as they are, while longing for them to become what they are not yet. Every marriage moves either toward enhancing one another's glory or toward degrading each other. —Dan Allender and Tremper Longman III
~ Gary L. Thomas
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Can there be anything sadder than a human being changed into the rubber tube of an enema?
~ Bruno Schulz
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rotted down from manhood by their hopeless misery on the isle; wonted to cringe in all things to their lord, himself the worst of slaves; these wretches were now become wholly corrupted to his hands. He used them as creatures of an interior race; in short, he gaffles his four animals, and makes murderers of them; out of cowards fitly manufacturing bravoes.
~ Herman Melville
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rotted down from manhood by their hopeless misery on the isle; wonted to cringe in all things to their lord, himself the worst of slaves; these wretches were now become wholly corrupted to his hands. He used them as creatures of an inferior race; in short, he gaffles his four animals, and makes murderers of them; out of cowards fitly manufacturing bravoes
~ Herman Melville
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It was like a scene from the final hours of the Roman Empire: Everywhere you looked, some prominent politician was degrading himself in public.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
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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
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