Depravity Quote by Josephine Pinckney Download Open image “there's a natural depravity in inanimate things that's quite shocking, when you think of it.” — Josephine Pinckney ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Depravity Inanimate objects Natural Nature Shocking Thinking
What you might see as depravity is, to me, just another aspect of the human condition. — Asia Argento Copy Share Image
To discover depravity in those whom we have loved, is one of the most exquisite tortures to a virtuous mind, and the conviction is… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
I'm always amazed that people are shocked when their despicable action causes an equally despicable reaction. — CM Punk Copy Share Image
Someone who is perennially surprised that depravity exists, who continues to feel disillusioned (even incredulous) when confronted with evidence of what humans are capable… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
There's something about the human brain, that it actually has a predilection towards negativity, which served us really well when we lived in an environment that was very threatening. — Moby Copy Share
This depravation of our nature is nothing else but the blotting of God's image in us. — Heinrich Bullinger Copy Share Image
If you don't believe there's some organising principle, or somebody up in the sky pulling the strings, then it can be very stressful. And… — Michael Shannon Copy Share Image
Some of the shrewdest insight into natural processes have been greeted at the outset by the exclamation 'But that's ridiculous'. — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy! — Honore de Balzac 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 ignorance or… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Through the power which we win over the forces of nature we get also a gruesome kind of power over our fellow human beings. - Out of My Life and Thoughts. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share
Well, how'd we get to talking about our ancestors? People think we don't talk about anything else in Charleston. — Josephine Pinckney Copy Share Image
there's a lot more satisfaction in thinking about money than in spending it, if people only knew. — Josephine Pinckney Copy Share Image
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… — Krishna Das Copy Share Image
Total depravity means the entire absence of holiness, not the highest intensity of sin. A totally depraved man is not as bad as he… — William Greenough Thayer Shedd Copy Share Image
The blessed Religion revealed in the word of God will remain an eternal and awful monument to prove that the best Institution may be… — George Washington Copy Share Image
If I created a new depravity I would be a priestess, while my imitators would founder, after my reign, in abominable filth...Don't you think… — Rachilde Copy Share Image
It is of interest to note that most secular humanists continue to belabor the horrors of the Inquisition in order to establish the moral… — Guenter Lewy Copy Share Image
It is when my umbrella turns inside out that I am convinced of the total depravity of inanimate things. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“All these institutions [prisons] seemed purposely invented for the production of depravity and vice, condensed to such a degree that no other conditions could… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The portions of a woman which appeal to man's depravity Are constructed with considerable care. — A. P. Herbert Copy Share Image
The depravity which sin has produced in human nature extends to the whole of it. There is no part of man's nature which is… — James Denney Copy Share Image
Someone who is perennially surprised that depravity exists, who continues to feel disillusioned (even incredulous) when confronted with evidence of what humans are capable… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
It's not what people do that scares me. It's what they hide. It's the secrets that keep us from bonding and create distrust. If we were more willing to accept each other's depravity we'd be more united, we'd be more honest. If you hide two things from me, I'll assume you're hiding a million. And I'll keep you at a… — Donald Miller Copy Share
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. And now I, being slow and aged, am overtaken by the slower of the two; but my accusers, being strong and active, have been overtaken by the swifter, wickedness. And now I depart, condemned by… — Plato Copy Share