Quotes about Degradation
And Jezebel’s body will lie like dung in the field on the plot of ground at Jezreel, so that no one can say: This is Jezebel.’”
- 2 Kings 9:37
But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by men and despised by the people.
- Psalm 22:6
and smashing all the carvings with hatchets and picks.
- Psalm 74:6
They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds.
- Psalm 106:39
You have made us scum and refuse among the nations.
- Lamentations 3:45
But now their appearance is blacker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets. Their skin has shriveled on their bones; it has become as dry as a stick.
- Lamentations 4:8
At the head of every street you built your lofty shrines and degraded your beauty. With increasing promiscuity, you spread your legs to all who passed by.
- Ezekiel 16:25
They will strip off your clothes and take your fine jewelry.
- Ezekiel 23:26
They trample on the heads of the poor as on the dust of the earth; they push the needy out of their way. A man and his father have relations with the same girl and so profane My holy name.
- Amos 2:7
The three great problems of this century the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
- Victor Hugo
Socrates: "The corruption of the best things are the worst things." Or, "The best, when corrupted, become the worst." As one of your English poets has said, "Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.
- Peter Kreeft
We must be aware that desperation breeds degradation. In other words, when what is lacking in life goes from being an annoyance to an anxiety we run the risk of compromising in ways we never thought we would.
- Lysa TerKeurst