"All growth, progress, well - being, or degradation is but relative."
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"National prosperity is another name for death and degradation to millions of other races."
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"No one should dogmatize about the capacity of human nature for degradation or exaltation."
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"The contempt of riches in philosophers was only a hidden desire to avenge their merit upon the injustice of fortune, by despising the very goods of which fortune had deprived them; it was a secret to guard themselves against the degradation of poverty, it was a back way by which to arrive at that distinction which they could not gain by riches."
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"Poverty does not produce unhappiness: It produces degradation."
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"The degradation of our environment is undeniably a direct result of our lack of regard, lack of accountability, and lack of responsibility."
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"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, but I'm not in favor of the degradation of anybody."
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"This pleasure comes precisely from the sharpest awareness of your own degradation; from the knowledge that you have gone to the utmost limit; that it is despicable, yet cannot be otherwise; that you no longer have any way out; that you will never become a different man."
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"Whenever you see want or misery or degradation in this world about you, then be sure either industry has been wanting, or industry has been in error."
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"I have heard painters acknowledge, though in that acknowledgment no degradation of themselves was intended, that they could do better without nature than with her; or as they express themselves, 'that it only put them out."
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