Every kind of reward constitutes a degradation of energy.
No one should dogmatize about the capacity of human nature for degradation or exaltation.
What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
The audience too should be respected by being presented with a film as they remember it, and for those who have not seen it, as it was intended to be seen. Anything less is a degradation of the film and its audience.
The work of bestial degradation, begun by the victorious Germans, had been carried to its conclusion by the Germans in defeat.
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.
In this hope, among the things we teach to the young are such truths as the transcendent value of the individual and the dignity of all people, the futility and stupidity of war, its destructiveness of life and its degradation of human values.
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.
Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.
I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the world.
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.
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.
That girls should not marry for money we are all agreed. A lady who can sell herself for a title or an estate, for an income or aset of family diamonds, treats herself as a farmer treats his sheep and oxen--makes hardly more of herself, of her own inner self, in which are comprised a mind and soul, than the poor wretch of her own sex who earns her bread in the lowest state of degradation.
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.
Society itself is responsible for the degradation.
What is life without honor? Degradation is worse than death.
It is very expensive to achieve high unreliability. It is not uncommon to increase the cost of an item by a factor of ten for each factor of ten degradation accomplished.
New media are new archetypes, at first disguised as degradations of older media.
The best armor is to keep out of range.
Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.