What is life without honor? Degradation is worse than death..

DEGRADATION, n. One of the stages of moral and social progress from private station to political preferment..

consumption can be very harmful to the world. I'm not a big proponent of the idea that consumption makes you morally bad, but there are consequences ….

Our political system cannot stop the degradation of our culture..

In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced..

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 ….

Nothing in our society-with the exception of violence and fear-has been more effective in keeping women in their place than the degradation of the me….

All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion cont….

Finally, since human beings are uniquely capable of producing materials not found in nature, environmental degradation may be due to the resultant in….

I have never, God or whatever knows, prostrated myself to be famous, but I would meander through all the sewers of the world, through all degradation….

It is the system, rather than individuals, that is the source of pollution and degradation. My prison-house environment is but another manifestation ….

Why do people think that we’re degraded when we’re examining positions of degradation, or examining the cycle of our own degradation?.

I'm no expert on pornography. The core element of it, I think, is degradation of women, whatever else goes on. I don't think it should be outlawed, b….

contempt for the degradation of specialization and pedantry. Specialization develops only part of a man; a man partially developed is deformed..

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….

I have come to the conclusion that it's a waste of time to have too much pride in anything. Perhaps it's good to have a sense of duty, a jealous zeal….

Long before many of us were even conscious of our own degradation, these men [Marcus Garvey and W. E. B. DuBois] fought for African national and raci….

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..

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 degr….

For those who are not hungry, it is easy to palaver about the degradation of charity..

Violence is the ultimate human degradation..