Depraved Quotes

Man, while he loves, is never quite depraved.

— Charles Lamb

Show business is and has always been a depraved carnival.

— David Mamet

“[T]he man who meditates is a depraved animal.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The man who meditates is a depraved animal.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

No one every suddenly became depraved.

— Juvenal

Any number of depraved units cannot form a great nation.

— Samuel Smiles

No one ever suddenly became depraved.

— Juvenal

No one becomes depraved all at once.

— Juvenal

[Internet] is amazing as much as human beings can be amazing, and it's debased and depraved and vile as human beings can…

— Werner Herzog

“Well, I love geraniums, and anybody who does not love geraniums must obviously be a depraved and loathsome person.”

— Beverley Nichols

“what’s the most depraved type of human being?” “The man without a purpose.”

— Ayn Rand

Christianity teaches that the human race is depraved, fallen, and sinful.

— D. James Kennedy

There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

— Hunter S. Thompson

“But often, it is the forbidden that is the hottest, and the depraved that is the most arousing.”

— Alessandra Torre

The most depraved type of human being ... (is) the man without a purpose.

— Ayn Rand

Every man's conscience is vile and depraved / You cannot depend on it to be your guide when it’s you who must…

— Bob Dylan

For the heavenly fire no longer strikes depraved cities, it is rather the lens which cuts through ordinary reality like a laser,…

— Jean Baudrillard

When language in common use in any country becomes irregular and depraved, it is followed by their ruin and degradation. For what…

— John Milton

What's so wonderful about 'The Walking Dead' is that we're able to explore human nature in its most depraved as well as…

— Gale Anne Hurd

The habit of the religious way of thinking has biased our mind so grievously that we are - terrified at ourselves in…

— Max Stirner

Total depravity means the entire absence of holiness, not the highest intensity of sin. A totally depraved man is not as bad…

— William Greenough Thayer Shedd

Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency in sin. It is just that negative species of virtue…

— Horace Bushnell

I, for one, will not have [the Vietcong] insulted by any comparison to the forces of Zarqawi, the Fedayeen Saddam, and the…

— Christopher Hitchens

Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to…

— Juvenal

“It is not that we can’t do good. We do. It’s just that we can’t keep from doing bad. In theological terms,…

— Max Lucado

The minute I sit down and think 'Okay, this must be KID SAFE!' my Muse develops Tourrette's and goes to lunch with…

— Ursula Vernon

The ministers are in duty bound to denounce all intellectual pride, and show that we are never quite so dear to God…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Now although man is created for the possession of happiness, yet, having deviated from his true end, his nature has become deformed…

— Catherine of Genoa

It is very easy to make wild generalizations about Islam. All you have to do is read almost any issue of The…

— Edward Said

It's very contradictory for a man to teach about the murder in corporate capitalism, to isolate and expose the murderes behind it,…

— Anonymous

Essentially, if our secrets are secrets because we are told to be ashamed, then we must share them. There is no shame…

— Warsan Shire

The gospel is the proclamation of free love; the revelation of the boundless charity of God. Nothing less than this will suit…

— Horatius Bonar

Then Christ will say to us, 'Come you also! Come you drunkards! Come you weaklings! Come you depraved!' And he will say…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

It doesn't dawn on this depraved bourgeois world that this is positively a sin against all reason; that it is criminal lunacy…

— Adolf Hitler

We are not guilty because we are depraved; we are depraved because we are guilty

— Gordon Clark

We are all easily taught to imitate what is base and depraved. [Lat., Dociles imitandis Turpibus ac pravis omnes sumus.]

— Juvenal

Nobody ever became depraved all at once. [Lat., Nemo repente fuit turpissimus.]

— Juvenal

Any man, however blase or depraved, finds his love kindled anew when he sees himself threatened by a rival.

— Honore de Balzac

He who takes his fill of every pleasure ... becomes depraved; while he who avoids all pleasures alike ... becomes insensible.

— Aristotle

I’ve never had any objection to appearing depraved or villainous. But I draw the line at looking like a prize idiot.

— Lisa Kleypas