Without businesse debauchery.

Christianity does not oppose debauchery and uncontrollable passions and the like as much as it opposes... flat mediocrity, this nauseating atmosphere, this homey, civil…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that…

— John Herschel

Cutting the space budget really restores my faith in humanity. It eliminates dreams, goals, and ideals and lets us get straight to the business…

— Johnny Hart

“It is an Age where any sort of debauchery is tolerated, as long as it brings fame with it.”

— Ian Pears

Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.

— Joseph Wood Krutch

Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that…

— John Herschel

Coming at twenty to his father's house, which was a very sink of filthy debauchery, he, chaste and pure as he was, simply withdrew…

— Anonymous

“He [Maxime] was twenty, and already there was nothing left to surprise or disgust him. He had certainly dreamt of the most extreme forms…

— Émile Zola

The military world is characterized by the absence of freedom - in other words, a rigorous discipline-enforced inactivity, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery and drunkenness.

— Leo Tolstoy

“Everywhere was the atmosphere of a long debauch that had to end; the orchestras played too fast, the stakes were too high at the…

— Malcolm Cowley

“So tonight I'm, pursuing more commercial joys around the bedpost. And I plan to get drunk as a skunk.”

— Valerie Sherwood

“What is it the Bible teaches us? — repine, cruelty, and murder. What is it the Testament teaches us? — to believe that the…

— Thomas Paine

Debauchery conceived of as a kind of ascetic experience is not new, either for men or for women, but until Story of O no…

— Anne Desclos

What is it the Bible teaches us? - raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? - to believe that…

— Thomas Paine

“Despairing of love and of chastity, I at last bethought myself of debauchery, a substitute for love, which quiets the laughter, restores silence, and…

— Albert Camus