Degradation Quotes
How do you know what possibilities lie behind that degradation on the surface? You know but little of that which is within you. For behind you is the ocean of infinite power and blessedness.
Unless government appropriately regulates oil developments and holds oil executives accountable, the public will not trust them to drill, baby, drill. And we must!
Judging by my degradation in the last 24 hours, I'll be surprised if I make it to Tuesday.
Many say our world is at a tipping point. If we do not act together, if we do not act responsibly, if we do not act now, we risk slipping into a cycle of poverty, degradation, and despair.
Land degradation did not start with chemical agriculture. But chemical agriculture offered new tools for annihilation.
All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated.
The degradation of the sense of symbol in modern society is one of its many signs of spiritual decay.
No matter who you are, the thought of so much suffering and degradation must cause you to shudder at the sight of a veil or cassock, those two shrouds of human invention.
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.
I know of no other book that so fully teaches the subjection and degradation of women.
Whether drugs lead to illumination or degradation depends on the spirit in which one takes them
Please don't invent a debt that does not exist, or next you will be trying to feel gratitude - and that is the treacherous first step toward complete moral degradation.
Make war not on terrorism but on ignorance, on sickness and on environmental degradation.
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.
Christians must go beyond criticizing the degradation of American culture, roll up their sleeves, and get to work on positive solutions. The only way to drive out bad culture is with good culture.
Any use of a human being in which less is demanded of him and less is attributed to him than his full status is a degradation and a waste.
The seriousness of ecological degradation lays bare the depth of man's moral crisis... Simplicity, moderation, and discipline as well as the spirit of sacrifice must become a part of everyday life.
I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the world.
DEGRADATION, n. One of the stages of moral and social progress from private station to political preferment.
In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.
For those who are not hungry, it is easy to palaver about the degradation of charity.
It is the difficult, but unavoidable, task of the modern individual to assimilate consciously all of the contents - from darkest degradation to profoundest purpose - contained in the psyche.
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.
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?
No future life could heal the degradation of having been a woman. Religion in the world had nothing but insults for women.
There's degradation of the environment. But the real issue is the degradation of one's inner environment.
"Secret migration" across borders is a form of human degradation and evidence of the depravity of the human conscience.
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.
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.
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.
No one should dogmatize about the capacity of human nature for degradation or exaltation.
When a religion or ideology becomes dominant, the lack of controls will result in widening spirals of license leading to degradation and corruption.
The degradation of our environment is undeniably a direct result of our lack of regard, lack of accountability, and lack of responsibility.
The work of bestial degradation, begun by the victorious Germans, had been carried to its conclusion by the Germans in defeat.
contempt for the degradation of specialization and pedantry. Specialization develops only part of a man; a man partially developed is deformed.
I had great memories of growing up in a working class estate. I remember it being sunny all the time. So we're putting that on screen. It's not people wallowing in degradation.
Pardon me, dear human self, capable of the most heinous degradation, capable of soaring.
National prosperity is another name for death and degradation to millions of other races.
I was offered 'I'm A Celebrity...' for a lot of money, but I don't like the level of degradation.
God gave man the authority to rule and protect all the animals in the aquatic ecosystems.
God's will has to be done, in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that.