The code of poor laws has at length grown up into a tree, which, like the fabulous Upas, overshadows and poisons the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The Gospel worldview equips the artist with a unique combination of optimism and realism about life. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
New York, like London, seems to be a cloacina [toilet] of all the depravities of human nature. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I believe until fairly recently our destructions of nature were more or less unwitting -- the by-products, so to speak, of our… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Although your mind works, your heart is darkened with depravity; and without a pure heart there can be no complete and true… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Have you ever noticed how few sitting places you find in private gardens? How seldom the versatility and importance of benches is… — Mirabel Osler Copy Share Image
A small knowledge of human nature will convince us, that, with far the greatest part of mankind, interest is the governing principle...… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The moment you decide that you're a grownup now, and therefore must put away foolish things like staying out all night or… — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
“It is too easy to call the church political. The nature of fallen people is political. And they happen to make up… — Mea McMahon Copy Share Image
“The last Bible I looked at contained over 2000 pages, and you humans managed to get yourself kicked out Paradise by page… — Dennis Garvin Copy Share Image
We [may] answer the question: "Why is snow white?" by saying, "For the same reason that soap-suds or whipped eggs are white"-in… — William James Copy Share Image
"Secret migration" across borders is a form of human degradation and evidence of the depravity of the human conscience. — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
But in the end one also has to understand that the needs that religion has satisfied and philosophy is now supposed to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Competition is all about you. It's about feeding your selfish needs. It feeds the depravity of your heart. — David Boudia Copy Share Image
The amount of poverty and suffering required for a Rockefeller to emerge, and the amount of depravity entailed in the accumulation of… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
We have before us the fiendishness of business competition and the world war, passion and wrongdoing, antagonism between classes and moral depravity… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
Want of tenderness is want of parts, and is no less a proof of stupidity than depravity. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Every age and every nation has certain characteristic vices, which prevail almost universally, which scarcely any person scruples to avow, and which… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“If I turn mine eyes upon myself, I find myself a traitor with the rest;” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Non-Christians seem to think that the Incarnation implies some particular merit or excellence in humanity. But of course it implies just the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“If I had a single wish, I would wish sixty seconds of total depravity upon myself. For one of the greatest gifts… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
The oppressive weight of disaster and tragedy in our lives does not arise from a high percentage of evil among the summed… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“All the accounts of the burial of Jesus are somber, laced through with the silence of grief, the shock that violence does… — Megan McKenna Copy Share Image
“There comes a time when everyone should seriously empathise. Wikipedia defines empathy as “the capacity to recognise feelings that are being experienced… — Mango Wodzak Copy Share Image