Depravity Quotes

81 Depravity quotes by 71 unique authors

We can never grasp the extent of our depravity until we recognize the excellencies of our created dignity — Matt Chandler
We have before us the fiendishness of business competition and the world war, passion and wrongdoing, antagonism between classes and moral depravity within them, economic… — Karl Barth
Wherever we direct our view, we discover the melancholy proofs of our depravity; whether we look to ancient or modern times, to barbarous or civilized… — William Wilberforce
Non-Christians seem to think that the Incarnation implies some particular merit or excellence in humanity. But of course it implies just the reverse: a particular… — C.S. Lewis
Few literary depictions of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake match the intensity and visceral power of those in Flacco's gripping first novel. The author's screenwriting… — William Bernhardt
There is a degree of depravity in mankind which requires a certain degree of circumspection and distrust. — James Madison
The core of original sin, then is LOT - Lack of Trust. Or, it could be considered an innate inability to adequately value ourselves. Label… — Robert H. Schuller
A few years ago we colonised this place with some of our finest felons, thieves, muggers, alcoholics and prostitutes, a strain of depravity which I… — Ian Wooldridge
But this is not difficult, O Athenians! to escape death; but it is much more difficult to avoid depravity, for it runs swifter than death.… — Plato
It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence. — Agnes Repplier
We instantly believe everything we think. Isn't that insane? It's good for us to explore the depravity of our minds, so we know we are… — Krishna Das
I have been reading the morning paper. I do it every morning-knowing well that I shall find in it the usual depravities and basenesses and… — Mark Twain
The blessed Religion revealed in the word of God will remain an eternal and awful monument to prove that the best Institution may be abused… — George Washington
A lack of doxology leads to depravity. — Ann Voskamp
New York, like London, seems to be a cloacina [toilet] of all the depravities of human nature. — Thomas Jefferson
When everyone is moving towards depravity, no one seems to be moving, but if someone stops he shows up the others who are rushing on,… — Blaise Pascal
It is only against the pitch blackness of the night that we see the glory of the stars. And it is only against the pitch… — Paul Washer
Whatever vices and corruptions men see in the lives of their ministers will not be attributed to the depravity of their old nature which still… — John Owen
Salvation now consists of a deep wrestling in our souls with the sinfulness of our hearts, the depth of our depravity, and the desperation of… — David Platt
Wherever there is degeneration and apathy, there also is sexual perversion, cold depravity, miscarriage, premature old age, grumbling youth, there is a decline in the… — Anton Chekhov
You need to get down among the people who are the dirtiest and dustiest, and the depravity, and you need to see Christ's light shining… — Karen Kingsbury
What you might see as depravity is, to me, just another aspect of the human condition. — Asia Argento
Someone who is perennially surprised that depravity exists, who continues to feel disillusioned (even incredulous) when confronted with evidence of what humans are capable of… — Susan Sontag
Want of tenderness is want of parts, and is no less a proof of stupidity than depravity. — Samuel Johnson
History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty and injustice and shortsightedness. There are monsters, there is evil,… — David McCullough

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