Depraved Quotes - Page 4

• The privileged man, whether he be privileged politically or economically, is a man depraved in intellect and heart.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Heart, Men, Intellect

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• One of the reasons MSNBC is plummeting is that I, not long ago, refused to play any content from them. I figured, why? I mean, it's genuine depraved partisan politics insanity, genuine extremist radical ignoramuses on that network.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mean, Long Ago, Play

  FaceBook post by Rush Limbaugh from Nov 20, 2013

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• I was the original socially depraved shy ghetto kid.

  Bob Cousy

  Basketball, Kids, Ghetto

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• It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Order, Lust, Opinion

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.312, Stanford University Press

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• People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition; people live like that, but Americans live in white detached houses with green shutters. Rigidly, blindly, the dream takes precedence.

  Margaret Mead

  Dream, Fashion, Ambition

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• Then Christ will say to us, 'Come you also! Come you drunkards! Come you weaklings! Come you depraved!' And he will say to us, 'Vile creatures, you in the image of the beast and you who bear his mark. All the same, you come too!' And the wise and prudent will say, 'Lord, why are you welcoming them? And he will say, 'O wise and prudent, I am welcoming them because not one of them has ever judged himself worthy. And he will stretch out his arms to us, and we shall fall at his feet, and burst into sobs, and then we shall understand everything, everything! Lord, your kingdom come!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Wise, Spiritual, Fall

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• Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

  John Ruskin

  Music, Teacher, Order

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• It is very easy to make wild generalizations about Islam. All you have to do is read almost any issue of The New Republic and you'll see there the radical evil that's associated with Islam, the Arabs as having a depraved culture, and so forth. These are impossible generalizations to make in the United States about any other religious or ethnic group.

  Edward Said

  Religious, Issues, Evil

  Source: progressive.org

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• We are not guilty because we are depraved; we are depraved because we are guilty

  Gordon Clark

  Wicked, Guilt, Sin

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• It's very contradictory for a man to teach about the murder in corporate capitalism, to isolate and expose the murderes behind it, to instruct that these madmen are completely without stops, are licentious, totally depraved — and then not make adequate preparations to defend himself from the madman's attack. Either they don't really believe their own spiel or they harbor some sort of subconscious death wish

  George Jackson

  Believe, Men, Preparation

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• The murders of Newtown are a warning to me - and you. Not a warning to see our schools as defenseless, but to see our souls as depraved. To see our need for a Savior. To humble ourselves in repentance for the God-diminishing bitterness of our hearts. To turn to Christ in desperate need, and to treasure his forgiveness, his transforming, and his friendship.

  John Piper

  Heart, Humble, School

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• We are accused here of polygamy, and actions the most indelicate, obscene, and disgusting, such that none but a corrupt and depraved heart could have contrived. These things are too outrageous to admit to belief.

  John Taylor

  Heart, Belief, Action

  Orson Pratt, John Taylor, William Gibson (O.B.E.) (1851). “A Series of Pamphlets”

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• No one ever suddenly became depraved.

  Juvenal

  'Satires' no. 2, l. 83

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• But one also finds in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to want to bring the strong down to their level, and which reduces men to preferring equality in servitude to inequality in freedom.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Strong, Heart, Men

  "Democracy in America" by Alexis de Tocqueville, Volume I, Chapter III, Part I, 1835.

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• Christianity teaches that the human race is depraved, fallen, and sinful.

  D. James Kennedy

  Race, Christianity, Fallen

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• For the heavenly fire no longer strikes depraved cities, it is rather the lens which cuts through ordinary reality like a laser, putting it to death.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Cutting, Reality, Fire

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• We're going to be really ashamed of ourselves when this whole story about Guantanamo comes out. Guantanamo is a really depraved place.

  Seymour Hersh

  Stories, Ashamed, Whole

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• The minute I sit down and think 'Okay, this must be KID SAFE!' my Muse develops Tourrette's and goes to lunch with Clive Barker, and my mind plunges into the gutter and I draw an appalling blank on anything that is not violent, gory, profanity laden, or depraved. So I think the only way I can ever do kid's books if I plan not to do kid's books. If that makes any sense.

  Ursula Vernon

  Book, Kids, Thinking

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• When language in common use in any country becomes irregular and depraved, it is followed by their ruin and degradation. For what do terms used without skill or meaning, which are at once corrupt and misapplied, denote but a people listless, supine, and ripe for servitude?

  John Milton

  Country, Skills, People

  John Milton, Rufus Wilmot Griswold (1856). “The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Biographical Introduction”, p.533

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• Lying is a false significance of speech, with a will to deceive, which cannot be cured but by shame and reason; it is a monstrous and wicked evil, that filthily depraved and defileth the tongue of man.

  Jon Jones

  Lying, Men, Evil

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• It is the characteristic of privilege and of every privileged position to kill the mind and heart of men. The privileged man, whether practically or economically, is a man depraved in mind and heart.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Heart, Men, Mind

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• I see the beauty of people and the human soul in the pictures I take. And though the circumstances of some of the people I portray may be grim, back-breaking, depraved, the people themselves are always remarkable characters and souls

  G.M.B. Akash

  Character, People, Soul

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• Being ruled by a depraved poet-king who is sacrified each spring is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

  Tim Pratt

  Kings, Spring, Government

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• Homosexuals want their depraved 'values' to become our children's values. Homosexuals expect society to embrace their immoral way of life. Worse yet, they are looking for new recruits!

  Beverly LaHaye

  Children, Want, Way

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• So actually war is politically profitable, financially profitable, morally depraved.

  Dennis Kucinich

  War, Profitable

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