Life Degradation Quotes

In this hope, among the things we teach to the young are such truths as the transcendent value of the individual and the dignity of all people, the futility and stupidity of war, its destructiveness of life and its degradation of human values.

Time is a corrosive fluid, dissolving motivation, destroying novelty, and leaching the joy from life.

The decision to give an indicative date for a return is a mistake. It degrades the process. It degrades human life.

Money is the most corrosive aspect of life today because it means that all attention to detail is forgotten.

All our inventions have endowed material forces with intellectual life, and degraded human life into a material force.

Real progress cannot be measured by money alone. We must ensure that economic growth contributes to our quality of life, rather than degrading it

Still all the day the iron wheels go onward, Grinding life down from its mark.

It's just upsetting how the world is - the need and the necessity to override the value of life.

A Barbary Consul had to put up with humiliation, isolation, threats to life and limb and every species of insolence & degradation that a fertile-brained Mohammetan can invent to render the life of a Christian superlatively miserable … one moment menaced with change, the next with death & damnation in a state of constant vigilance, concern & complexity