Quotes About Degradation

The church degraded woman by destroying her self-respect and teaching her to feel consciousness of guilt in the very fact of her existence. To this day, an open, confident look upon a woman's face is deprecated as evil. Death by torture was the method of the church for the repression of woman's intellect, knowledge being held as evil and dangerous in her hands.

Por qué buscas la compañía en tus momentos de degradación? Vuélvete adicto de los vicios solitarios.

War is a blessing compared with national degradation.

There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief.

If we pollute the air, water and soil that keep us alive and well, and destroy the biodiversity that allows natural systems to function, no amount of money will save us.

The whole thing of sexually objectifying yourself is really demoralizing and degrading as a human being, and it's something that men have never had to do, and it's something that 'Hanna' has never had to do.

Do you know, Mrs. Allan, I'm thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much. True friendship is a very helpful thing indeed, said Mrs. Allan, and we should have a very high ideal of it , and never sully it by any failure in truth and sincerity. I fear the name of friendship is often degraded to a kind of intimacy that had nothing of real friendship in it.

I fear the name of friendship is often degraded to a kind of intimacy that has nothing of real friendship in it.

Looking in the dead bird's eye, I realized that these strange, unthought-of connections—sex and death, lust and violence, desire and degradation

The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.

Scientists have been struck by the fact that things that break down virtually never get lost, while things that get lost hardly ever break down.

Ser local en un mundo globalizado es una señal de penuria y degradación social.

To you is granted the power of degrading yourself into the lower forms of life, the beasts, and to you is granted the power, contained in your intellect and judgment, to be reborn into the higher forms, the divine.

The sexual degradation of women has long been accompanied by laughter. If misogyny has a soundtrack, it is canned laughter.

The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment.

In lei, Laide, viveva meravigliosamente la città, dura, decisa, presuntuosa, sfacciata, orgogliosa, insolente. Nella degradazione degli animi e delle cose, fra suoni e luci equivoci, al'ombra tetra dei condominii, fra le muraglie di cemento e di gesso, nella frenetica desolazione, una specie di fiore.

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?

La América entera se ha burlado de aquellas famosas fiestas de Buenos Aires y mirádolas como el colmo de la degradación de un pueblo; pero yo no veo en ellas sino un designio político, el más fecundo en resultados.

it wont be long now it wont be longman is making deserts of the earthit wont be long nowbefore man will have it used upso that nothing but antsand centipedes and scorpionscan find a living on it

Man] has transformed himself into a thing.

But things were changing. Everywhere one looked the boundary between the moral and the wicked seemed to be degrading. Elizabeth Cady Stanton argued in favor of divorce. Clarence Darrow advocated free love. A young woman named Borden killed her parents.

Degredation is the subtlest drug, the most insinuating. But they could do nothing to me I had not already imagined.

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.

When resources are degraded, we start competing for them, whether it is at the local level in Kenya, where we had tribal clashes over land and water, or at the global level, where we are fighting over water, oil, and minerals. So one way to promote peace is to promote sustainable management and equitable distribution of resources.