#degradation

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. ↗

— Rick Larsen

#any #degradation #fight #foothold #groups

So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die. ↗

— William Morris

#arts #civilization #competition #degradation #die

The Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act of 2004 helps address the continuing degradation on the broadcast airwaves and helps send a clear message to the broadcast industry that Alabama families, like the rest of American families, have had enough. ↗

— Mike Rogers

#address #airwaves #alabama #american #american families

But it will be said that the husband provides for the wife, or in other words, he feeds, clothes and shelters her! I wish I had the power to make every one before me fully realize the degradation contained in that idea. ↗

— Ernestine Rose

#clothes #contained #degradation #every #feeds

I think I would much rather push the boundaries of the degradation that the characters face. ↗

— Dave Rowntree

#characters #degradation #face #i #i think

but as he plodded along a vague and almost hallucinatory pall hazed over his mind; he found himself at one point, with no notion of how it could be, a step from an almost certain fatal cliffside fall—falling humiliatingly and helplessly, he thought; on and on, with no one even to witness it. Here there existed no one to record his or anyone else's degradation, and any courage or pride which might manifest itself here at the end would go unmarked: the dead stones, the dust-stricken weeds dry and dying, perceived nothing, recollected nothing, about him or themselves. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#death #degradation #dying #oblivion #courage

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. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#believe #best #brightest #degradation #generation

A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves. ↗

— Simone Weil

#bear #degradation #hurtful #others #ourselves

The audience too should be respected by being presented with a film as they remember it, and for those who have not seen it, as it was intended to be seen. Anything less is a degradation of the film and its audience. ↗

— George Stevens

#audience #being #degradation #film #intended

..each bloodletting hastens the next, and as the value of human life is degraded and violence becomes tolerated, the unimaginable becomes more conceivable. ↗

— Bill Clinton

#genocide #human-life #rwanda #sanctity-of-life #tolerance