Depravity Quotes

81 Depravity quotes by 71 unique authors

The amount of poverty and suffering required for the emergence of a Rockefeller, and the amount of depravity that the accumulation of a fortune of… — Che Guevara
But in the end one also has to understand that the needs that religion has satisfied and philosophy is now supposed to satisfy are not… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Nothing shall warp me from the belief that every man is a lover of truth. There is no pure lie, no pure malignity in nature.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
To read of human depravity in the police reports is one thing, to see it fall like a black shadow across one's life is another. — William John Locke
The code of poor laws has at length grown up into a tree, which, like the fabulous Upas, overshadows and poisons the land; unwholesome expedients… — Charles Caleb Colton
One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real. — Klaus Kinski
We've defined decency down now that we look at the entertainment value of it, whether the acting is good, the writing is good, the story… — Rush Limbaugh
To me, religion is about our dignity, not our depravity. — Yann Martel
I believe until fairly recently our destructions of nature were more or less unwitting -- the by-products, so to speak, of our ignorance or weakness… — Wendell Berry
Faith and feelings are the warm marrow of evil. Unlike reason, faith and feelings provide no boundary to limit any delusion, any whim. They are… — Terry Goodkind
Although your mind works, your heart is darkened with depravity; and without a pure heart there can be no complete and true consciousness — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Only the man who extols the purity of love devoid of desire, is capable of the depravity of a desire devoid of love. — Ayn Rand
Clearly the sight of a well-muscled forearm incited a woman to utter depravity. How else to explain the invention of cuffs? — Tessa Dare
But as surely as the moon rises and the sun sets, depravity passes down through the ages, because there is always a gap between who… — Chris Adrian
Was this some new level of depravity? Had he developed a spinster fetish? — Lisa Kleypas
In a fallen world marked by human depravity and deep-seated sin, in a world where Hitler and Stalin had recruited millions of followers to commit… — Timothy B. Tyson
Only later did I come to understand that to be a mother is to be an illusion. No matter how vigilant, in the end a… — Nicole Krauss
Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise their misery. But they themselves- in their depravity- design grief greater than… — Homer
You'd better hurry up to the Gard and back. God knows what depravity we might get up to here without your guidance. — Cassandra Clare
The author squares man's depravity with still being made in the image of God with this word picture. A vase that has held beautiful roses… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
You do that, and I take back every nasty thing I've ever said about you." He grinned, his mood changing from serious to wicked in… — Jeaniene Frost
The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact. — Malcolm Muggeridge
The dream of all men is to meet little sluts who are innocent but ready for all forms of depravity—which is what, more or less,… — Michel Houellebecq
I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, and the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are venomous… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. — Umberto Eco

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