Depravity Quotes - page 2

Sometimes I suspect that our own civilization is not altogether perfect. When I think of the penitentiaries crammed to suffocation, and of the many who ought to be in; of the want, the filth, the depravity of the great cities; of the starvation in the manufacturing centers of Great Britain, and, in fact, of all Europe; when I see women working like beasts of burden, and little children deprived, not simply of education, but of air, light and food, there is a suspicion in my mind that Christian civilization is not a complete and overwhelming success. (Robert G. Ingersoll)
Certain it is, however, that this great power of blackness in him derives its force from its appeals to that Calvinistic sense of Innate Depravity and Original Sin, from whose visitations, in some shape or other, no deeply thinking mind is always and wholly free. For, in certain moods, no man can weigh this world, without throwing in something, somehow like Original Sin, to strike the uneven balance. View quote
Herman Melville
Those who are susceptible to depravity do not need cinema or theatre to mislead them. There are numerous other factors which lead to immorality. View quote
Dadasaheb Phalke
In the account given to Solon by the Egyptian priests, of the submersion of the island of Atlantis under the waters of the ocean, after repeated shocks of an earthquake, we find that the event happened when Jupiter had seen the moral depravity of the inhabitants. View quote
Charles Lyell
Every increase of knowledge may possibly render depravity more depraved, as well as it may increase the strength of virtue. It is in itself only power; and its value depends on its application. View quote
Sydney Smith
Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise their misery. But they themselves- in their depravity- design grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns. View quote
Homer
The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact. View quote
Malcolm Muggeridge
The gospel proceeds on the basis of universal depravity; the gospel assimilates all varieties of human nature into one common experience of guilt and need and helplessness; and this is just what you do not like about it. View quote
William Morley Punshon
I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, and the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are venomous enough, or secret, subterranean and small enough - I call it the one immortal blemish on the human race. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
Now what has been said about the Jews is also to be understood about Cahorsins, and anyone else depending upon the depravity of usury. View quote
Thomas Aquinas
I am, after all, a thriller writer. I routinely delve into the darkest chambers of the human heart. I've written about murder, kidnapping, depravity, horror, violence, and disfigurement. (Harlan Coben)
"Secret migration" across borders is a form of human degradation and evidence of the depravity of the human conscience. View quote
Hassan Blasim
What you might see as depravity is, to me, just another aspect of the human condition. View quote
Asia Argento
Admitting inequality means subscribing to a depravity of the species. View quote
Francois-Noel Babeuf
Was this some new level of depravity? Had he developed a spinster fetish? View quote
Lisa Kleypas
Are we innately aggressive?” asked Aquinas. "Was the nuclear predicament symptomatic of a more profound depravity? Nobody knows. But if this is so-and I suspect that it is-then the responsibility for what we are pleased to call our inhumanity still rests squarely in our blood-soaked hands. The killer-ape hypothesis does not specify a fate-it lays out an agenda. Beware, the fable warns. Caution. Trouble ahead. Genocidal weapons in the hands of creatures who are bored by peace.” "I think I'm going to throw up,” said Brat. "But the fable went unheeded. And the weapons, unchecked. And then, one cold Christmas season, death came to an admirable species-a species that wrote symphonies and sired Leonardo da Vinci and would have gone to the stars. It did not have to be this way. Three virtues only were needed-creative diplomacy, technical ingenuity, and moral outrage. But the greatest of these is moral outrage. View quote
James K. Morrow
I conceived this story [ MW ] with the intention of presenting readers a picaresque drama that distort the traditional atmosphere of my stories leave them stunned. I wish that all the ills of society - conformism, laziness, indolence, betrayal, violence, lust, rape - and especially the evils of politics will be represented in the form of an absolute depravity. Now I feel a great regret. My style inadequate forces me to complete the work without being able ... View quote
Osamu Tezuka
I wish that all the ills of society - conformism, laziness, indolence, betrayal, violence, lust, rape - and especially the evils of politics will be represented in the form of an absolute depravity. View quote
Osamu Tezuka
Mr. Madison was not a little surprised to hear this implicit confidence urged by a member who, on all occasions, had inculcated so strongly the political depravity of men, and the necessity of checking one vice and interest by opposing to them another vice and interest. View quote
James Madison
Grand Theft Auto IV is the gravest assault upon children in this country since polio. We now have vaccines for that virus... The 'vaccine' that must be administered by the United States government to deal with this virtual virus of violence and sexual depravity is criminal prosecutions of those who have conspired to do this. View quote
Jack Thompson (attorney)
I think every well-adjusted human being has dealt squarely with his or her own depravity. (Don Miller (author))
The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. View quote
Umberto Eco
Only the man who extols the purity of love devoid of desire, is capable of the depravity of a desire devoid of love. View quote
Ayn Rand
Brethren, is not this the Saviour that you need? one who can save you from the utmost depths of depravity, in the utmost corner of the earth, on the utmost inch of time? One who can save you amidst the utmost urgency of fierce temptations, and who in the uttermost extreme of exhausted nature, when heart and flesh do faint and fail, completes the work, and seals the salvation for evermore? View quote
James Hamilton (1814-1871)
The oppressive weight of disaster and tragedy in our lives does not arise from a high percentage of evil among the summed total of all acts, but from the extraordinary power of exceedingly rare incidents of depravity to inflict catastrophic damage, especially in our technological age when airplanes can become powerful bombs. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould