Depraved Quotes

• The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Reality, Men, Intellectual

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• In the application of the method of non-violence, one must believe in the possibility of every person, however depraved, being reformed under humane and skilled treatment.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, Violence, Possibility

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.71, Rajpal & Sons

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• The man who meditates is a depraved animal.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Animal, Reflection, Men

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2012). “Discourse on the Origin of Inequality”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• No one becomes depraved all at once.

  Juvenal

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

  Aristotle

  Pleasure, Insensible

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• Now although man is created for the possession of happiness, yet, having deviated from his true end, his nature has become deformed and is entirely repugnant to true beatitude. And on this account we are forced to submit to God this depraved nature of ours which fills our understanding with so many occupations, and causes us to deviate from the true path, in order that he may entirely consume it until nothing remains there but himself; otherwise the soul could never attain stability nor repose, for she was created for no other end.

  Catherine of Genoa

  Men, Order, Understanding

  Don Cattaneo Marabotto, St. Catherine of Genoa (2015). “The Spiritual Doctrine of St. Catherine of Genoa”, p.41, TAN Books

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• A tongue prone to slander is the proof of a depraved mind.

  Publilius Syrus

  Mind, Tongue, Proof

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• Tolerance is the last virtue of a depraved society. When an immoral society has blatantly and proudly violated all the commandments, it insists upon one last virtue, tolerance for its immorality. It will not tolerate condemnation of its perversions. It creates a whole new world in which only the intolerant critic of intolerable evil is evil.

  Hutton Gibson

  Evil, Tolerance, World

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• A culture that does not aspire to the divine becomes obsessed with the fascination of evil, reveling in the frivolous, the depraved, and the bestial.

  George Gilder

  Evil, Doe, Culture

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• Any number of depraved units cannot form a great nation.

  Samuel Smiles

  Numbers, Form, Units

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.30

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• I became evil for no reason. I had no motive for my wickedness except wickedness itself. It was foul, and I loved it. I loved the self-destruction, I loved my fall, not the object for which I had fallen but my fall itself. My depraved soul leaped down from your firmament to ruin. I was seeking not to gain anything by shameful means, but shame for its own sake.

  Saint Augustine

  Fall, Mean, Self

  Saint Augustine, Henry Chadwick (2008). “The Confessions”, p.29, Oxford Paperbacks

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

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Men, Rivals

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• And there is my payment the rubies in your cheeks. Are you properly scandalized by your wicked behavior? If you were Catholic, you'd singe the ears of the priest you confessed to. Do you remember making me swear to repeat all those naughty actions agian, no matter what you said this morning?" Now that he brought it up, I did recall saying that. Great Betrayed by my own immorality. "God, Bones...some of that was depraved." "I'll take that as a compliment." He closed the distance between us."I love you. Don't be ashamed of anything we did, even if your prudery is on life support.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Morning, Distance, Love You

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

  Beverley Nichols

  Doe, Wells, Persons

  Beverley Nichols (1953). “Merry Hall”

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• You are an atrocious person! Since the day I met you I have become steadily more depraved.

  Georgette Heyer

  Mets, Persons

  Georgette Heyer (2011). “The Nonesuch”, p.286, Random House

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• Of all the vices incident to man, lying is the most mean, most contemptible; it evinces a very weak, depraved heart, which shrinks at the exposure of motives and of actions.

  Josiah Bartlett

  Lying, Heart, Mean

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• Total depravity means the entire absence of holiness, not the highest intensity of sin. A totally depraved man is not as bad as he can be, but he has no holiness, that is, no supreme love of God

  William Greenough Thayer Shedd

  Mean, Men, Holiness

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• What shall we Christians do now with this depraved and damned people of the Jews? ... I will give my faithful advice: First, that one should set fire to their synagogues. . . . Then that one should also break down and destroy their houses. . . . That one should drive them out the country.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Country, Fire

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• Past persons of Scottishness in contact with mastermind of supernatural persuasion in London, aka Agent Doom.’ Floote moved on to the third bit of paper. “ ‘Lady K says Agent Doom assisted depraved Plan of Action. May have all been his idea.’ Moving on to the last one, he read out, "Summer permits Scots to expose more knee than lady of refinement should have to withstand. Hairmuffs much admired. Yours etc., Puff Bonnet.

  Gail Carriger

  Summer, Moving, Past

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• Letterwriting is the natural outlet of the "odds." The busy-bodies, the idle, the perverted, the cranks, the feel-it-my-duties ... Also the plain depraved. They all write letters. It's their safe outlet, you see. They can be as interfering, as long-winded, as obscene, as pompous, as one-idea'd, as they like on paper, and no one can kick them for it. So they write. My God, how they write!

  Josephine Tey

  Writing, Odds, Ideas

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• Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.

  Juvenal

  Children, Powerful, Reason

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

  Juvenal

  Taught, Imitation

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• I have no intention of uttering my last words on the stage. Room service and a couple of depraved young women will do me quite nicely for an exit.

  Peter O'Toole

  Couple, Theatre, Lasts

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• The gospel is the proclamation of free love; the revelation of the boundless charity of God. Nothing less than this will suit our world; nothing else is so likely to touch the heart, to go down to the lowest depths of depraved humanity, as the assurance that the sinner has been loved -- loved by God, loved with a righteous love, loved with a free love that makes no bargain as to merit, or fitness, or goodness.

  Horatius Bonar

  Heart, Our World, Humanity

  Horatius Bonar (2018). “God's Way of Holiness”, p.36, Bible Study Books

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• I believe that every human being is sufficiently depraved that when we get to heaven, no one will be able to say, I merited this.

  Dallas Willard

  Believe, Heaven, Able

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