Quotes About Degradation

...humanity is a disease, a cancer on the body of the world.

Denial of climate change and degradation of environment for the purpose of economic prosperity is humiliation and slavery of the nature.

I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the world.

as if the earth under our feetwerean excrement of some skyand we degraded prisonersdestinedto hunger until we eat filth

humans are no less eager than in the past to dominate, degrade, humiliate, and control—often in order to confirm their own sense of pride and superiority. (Adam Smith wrote in 1776 that this was the main motive for slavery.) But

The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.

We degrade God too much, ascribing to him our ideas, in vexation at being unable to understand Him.

Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.

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

When art becomes merely shock value, our sense of humanity is slowly degraded.

The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.

Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair.

The wish to hear such baseness is degrading.

Every attempt through history to limit the definition of humanity has been a prelude to the subjugation, degradation, and slaughter of innocents.

Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.

We hit slavery through a great civil war. Did we destroy it? No, we only changed it into hatred between sections of the country: in the South, into political corruption and chicanery, the degradation of the blacks through peonage, unjust laws, unfair and cruel treatment; and the degradation of the whites by their resorting to these practices, the paralyzation of the public conscience, and the ever over-hanging dread of what the future may bring.

Wakened one morning in some dive to know the game was up. Nausea, the shivers, the disease that bums, stevedores, poets, and the city elders all fell foul to. The syph. Had to be burned out of him. Oh man, the mercury that cured also took away, a descent into blindness. "I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin and defiled my horn in the dust.

There is no limit of degradation to which power cannot bring anyone even with the loftiest principles. We would hope that being unprepared for power, they would be ineffective. Their task is not "seize power" (those who use this term show that they seek personal power for themselves) but to abolish the bases for power. Power to all means power to nobody in particular.

The two oldest professions in the world—ruined by amateurs.

The planet is being polluted with many forms of wastes.

Socialised humanity represses nature and degrades human nature; it takes life and waters it down - probably to control it - diluting existence with water that is lukewarm, sweet and murky.

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

As we look to the future, we cannot improve our living standards while simultaneously degrading the natural environment around us.

From a planning perspective, economic degradation begets environmental degradation, which begets social degradation.