Degrade Quotations

Every hour I spent on manual work, every hour I was humiliated in England or degraded has helped me because that's the same way other people feel in the townships here. People are still walking long distances and are working long hours.

We've taken more water out of the system than the environment can sustain, ... As a result, we have degraded habitat and a lake that's near collapse and a river that's very unhealthy.

I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

Women are at once the guardians and the well-spring of the world's faith, morality, and tenderness; and if ever they are degraded to a commonplace level with men, this fine essential quality will be impaired, and their weakness will have to beg and follow where now it guides and controls.

It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

With today's enactment of the budget reconciliation bill and its digital television provisions, we have crossed an important threshold. NAB is pleased that Congress adopted many pro-consumer DTV measures in the legislation, and we're encouraged that the bill thwarted cable industry attempts to degrade the quality of HDTV pictures to consumers.

Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.

Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few.

(A black bear) needs a lot of space and the way development is going in South Florida, the room it needs is being lost, degraded and fragmented.

A common sense alternative is to protect America's national forests from commercial logging by reinvesting the logging subsidies into economically viable programs, ... Rather then spending taxpayer dollars to degrade our national heritage, we should invest in programs for ecological restoration, adequate school funding, alternative fiber research, vocational training, and community economic development.