Policies are being pursued that place on the same level a multi-child family and a same-sex partnership, a faith in God and a belief in Satan. This is the path to degradation.
For those who are not hungry, it is easy to palaver about the degradation of charity.
Whether drugs lead to illumination or degradation depends on the spirit in which one takes them
There appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations.
Violence is the ultimate human degradation.
I was offered 'I'm A Celebrity. . . ' for a lot of money, but I don't like the level of degradation.
Every individual or national degeneration is immediately revealed by a directly proportional degradation in language.
The fact that human beings do not put up forever with misery, humiliation, degradation, actual physical deprivation but act is a fact which every human being should know about. We are a species that makes changes.
contempt for the degradation of specialization and pedantry. Specialization develops only part of a man; a man partially developed is deformed.
History is nothing but a procession of false Absolutes, a series of temples raised to pretexts, a degradation of the mind before the Improbable.
Culture is a matrix of infinite possibilities and choices. From within the same culture matrix we can extract arguments and strategies for the degradation and ennoblement of our species, for its enslavement or liberation, for the suppression of its productive potential or its enhancement.
I can think of nothing in the world like the utter littleness, the paltriness, the contemptibleness, the degradation, of the woman who is tied down under a roof with a man who is really nothing to her; who wears the man’s name, who bears the man’s children — who plays the virtuous woman. . . . May I never, I say, become that abnormal merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity — a virtuous woman.
I grew up in an area of a lot of growth, in Orange County, California, and spent most of my youth on the beach. I had witnessed the degradation of our Back Bay and the increased number of closed beach days over the years.
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.
I have heard painters acknowledge, though in that acknowledgment no degradation of themselves was intended, that they could do better without nature than with her; or as they express themselves, 'that it only put them out.
The degradation of the sense of symbol in modern society is one of its many signs of spiritual decay.
It's clear that agriculture, done right, is the best means the world has today to simultaneously tackle food security, poverty and environmental degradation.
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment.
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.