Depraved Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• [Internet] is amazing as much as human beings can be amazing, and it's debased and depraved and vile as human beings can be.

  Werner Herzog

  Internet, Humans, Human Beings

  Source: collider.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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