Degradation Quotes

but as he plodded along a vague and almost hallucinatory pall hazed over his mind; he found himself at one point, with no notion of how it could be, a step from an almost certain fatal cliffside fall—falling humiliatingly and helplessly, he thought; on and on, with no one even to witness it. Here there existed no one to record his or anyone else's degradation, and any courage or pride which might manifest itself here at the end would go unmarked: the dead stones, the dust-stricken weeds dry and dying, perceived nothing, recollected nothing, about him or themselves.

~ Philip K. Dick

If a person refuses to develop his potential, it can lead to nervous or mental disorders, somatic diseases and personal degradation

~ Sunday Adelaja

As humanity progresses its technology on a global level, the observed degradation of natural processes and growth cycles are the alarm systems that nature uses to alert us that some of this progress is biologically toxic.

~ Steven Magee

I made the mistake of working at the world's largest telescopes and now show classic health degradation that is associated with that biologically toxic environment.

~ Steven Magee

As she uttered the words of the prayer, she glanced up at him as if he were God Himself. He watched her with growing pleasure. In front of him was kneeling the directress, being humiliated by a subordinate; in front of him a naked revolutionary was being humiliated by prayer; in front of him a praying lady was being humiliated by her nakedness.This threefold image of degradation intoxicated him and something unexpected suddenly happened: his body revoked its passive resistance. Edward was excited!As the directress said, 'And lead us not into temptation,' he quickly threw off all his clothes. When she said, 'Amen,' he violently lifted her off the floor and dragged her onto the couch.

~ Milan Kundera

I thought I wanted to be degraded, but I wanted to be degraded with love. You wanted me to talk during sex and what came out was, You hate me.

~ Fiona Helmsley

There’s a lot of degradation in sex, isn’t there?”“When it’s done right.

~ Hanif Kureishi

To believers, the bible is a holy book, to unbelievers, it is a story book.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

What’s the worst possible thing you can call a woman? Don’t hold back, now. You’re probably thinking of words like slut, whore, bitch, cunt (I told you not to hold back!), skank. Okay, now, what are the worst things you can call a guy? Fag, girl, bitch, pussy. I’ve even heard the term “mangina.” Notice anything? The worst thing you can call a girl is a girl. The worst thing you can call a guy is a girl. Being a woman is the ultimate insult. Now tell me that’s not royally fucked up.

~ Jessica Valenti

Don't degrade your soul to the extent of believing in curses. No man can curse you except your maker.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

A celebrity starts being a cele-crazy when he's seen often, he's just like the ordinary man in the streets. Without much ado to shout his name, i go my way.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

We have a duty to care for the environment.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It’s only through the degradation of the soul that you can know who you really are; when all else is stripped away, leaving you bare.” Somehow, his black eyes darkened, the venom in his words more deadly than a viper’s bite. “Let me degrade you, Katherine.

~ Dianna Hardy

Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.

~ Charlotte Brontë

You cannot change someone using fear, degradation, humiliation, or by comparing them to others. It can only be done through love, with love, for love.

~ Suzy Kassem

..each bloodletting hastens the next, and as the value of human life is degraded and violence becomes tolerated, the unimaginable becomes more conceivable.

~ Bill Clinton

That anybody white could take your whole self for anything that came to mind. Not just work, kill, or maim you, but dirty you so bad you forgot who you were and couldn't think it up. And though she and others lived through and got over it, she could never let it happen to her own.

~ Toni Morrison

God gave man the authority to rule and protect all the animals in the aquatic ecosystems.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If we do not accept our challenges and remain in our comfort zone, then we undergo degradation

~ Sunday Adelaja

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

~ M.f. Moonzajer

We loved our homeland for thousands of years which cost us climate change and environmental degradation because we were too selfish to care about the nature, now it is time that we must love our world at least for a little time.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Leaving the world without keeping an heirloom is a degradation of the divine purpose.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

If we deny climate change and don’t care about environmental degradation, we are no more than those people who are willing to be stupid because someone else was stupid in the past.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

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

~ Charles Dickens