I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
Land degradation did not start with chemical agriculture. But chemical agriculture offered new tools for annihilation.
Contrary to popular belief, someone being an asshole, jerk, immature, or rude does not contradict or degrade their talents.
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
Random mutations much more easily debilitate genes than improve them, and that this is true even of the helpful mutations. Let me emphasize, our experience with malaria’s effects on humans (arguably our most highly studied genetic system) shows tha...
Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish.
Too many leaders value their popularity, protecting it at all cost, degrading their credibility.
The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.
Adam & Eve have been degraded, reduplicated forever, photocopies of photocopies, mistakes copied, magnified, augmented.
We degrade God too much, ascribing to him our ideas, in vexation at being unable to understand Him.
Every attempt through history to limit the definition of humanity has been a prelude to the subjugation, degradation, and slaughter of innocents.
I believe we need to attract a new generation of the best and brightest to public service and I believe that government can be a source of inspiration, not degradation.
How obvious can it be? ... The purpose of makeup is to defy the degradations of time, and time is just a synonym for death.
And we need to maintain our foothold in the fight against terrorism and terrorist groups and respond to any degradation of Iraqi security or stability.
I don't like to look back, and I'm always worried about the next thing rather than resting on the laurels or the degradations of the last thing.
You can manage cancer. You don't have to be degraded by humiliating treatments and protocols. And in some cases, you can be cured of cancer.
So many people have won Emmys, so many people have won multiple Emmys that I think it's a degraded award.
Prison is a second-by-second assault on the soul, a day-to-day degradation of the self, an oppressive steel and brick umbrella that transforms seconds into hours and hours into days.
A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.
Fate! This four-letter little word gave the biggest harm to mankind! We must totally get rid of this degrading concept of primitiveness!
A Soviet man is a product of invisible changes, degradation and progressive deformation. Breaking the chain of those changes is hard. Perhaps they are irreversible.
