Moral Degradation Quotes

#1. Please don't invent a debt that does not exist, or next you will be trying to feel gratitude - and that is the treacherous first step toward complete moral degradation.

Robert A. Heinlein

#2. [It is a] happy truth that man is capable of self-government, and only rendered otherwise by the moral degradation designedly superinduced on him by the wicked acts of his tyrant.

Thomas Jefferson

#3. Israel is following policies which maximise its security threats ... policies which choose expansion over security ... policies which lead to their moral degradation, their isolation, their delegitimation, as they call it now, and very likely ultimate destruction. That's not impossible.

Noam Chomsky

#4. I tried to balance the sufferings of the miserable victim against the moral degradation of Memphis, and the truth flashed over me that in large measure the race question involves the saving of black America's body and white America's soul.

Philip Dray

#5. A mendacious umbrella is a sign of great moral degradation.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#6. If the world suffers from mental deterioration or from moral degradation, then something goes wrong at the very root of civilization or culture. Even though that civilization may drag out for a considerable period, it grows less and less vital and ultimately tumbles down.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#7. To pray as God would have us pray is the greatest achievement of earth.

Samuel Chadwick

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

Ambrose Bierce

#9. If the next time our governments propose to make war on a helpless civilian population we were to uncover our grief and guilt instead of our anger, how much difference might we make?

Germaine Greer

#10. If our failure to consistently worship the true God is the key feature of sin, we are sinners all.

Edward T. Welch

#11. And I took a long time to appreciate Lynch.

Jacques Rivette

#12. The seriousness of ecological degradation lays bare the depth of man's moral crisis ... Simplicity, moderation, and discipline as well as the spirit of sacrifice must become a part of everyday life.

Pope John Paul II

#13. In this denial of the right to participate in government, not merely the degradation of woman and the perpetuation of a great injustice happens, but the maiming and repudiation of one-half of the moral and intellectual power of the government of the world.

Frederick Douglass

#14. Anticipation and Hope are born twins.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#15. No candy bars unless I've had a low blood sugar where I'm shaky.

Mary Tyler Moore

#16. If you do not listen to your intuition, it will stop talking to you. Your intuition is like a sensitive friend. If you question it, censor it, judge it, it gets hurt and becomes silent.

Michele Cassou

#17. I think men have always been afraid of women's sexuality, and the restrictions they put on women testify to that.

Erica Jong

#18. Our treatment of animals and our attitude toward them are crucial not only to any pretensions we have to ethical behavior but the humankind's intellectual and moral evolution. Which is how the human animal is meant to evolve, isn't it?

Joy Williams

#19. I saved you," Andersen said at last, slowly but firmly, like Pat was an idiot child who had to be reminded of the basic rules of the universe. To wit: Gravity exists. Time purports to flow in a linear fashion, but it's only trying to fool us. I saved you.

Alex Gabriel