Top 100 Quotes About Depravity
#1. The men who are dropped in a jungle or a desert and expected video games and got mundanity and depravity and friends dying like animals.
Dave Eggers
#2. A child is the quickest to trust because they have no concept of the depravity of our species.
Alessandra Torre
#3. My guess was that when you descended to a certain depth of depravity, the Fogs could smell you as a hound, catching a murderer's spoor, could track the criminal through forest, field, and moor.
Dean Koontz
#4. The hand entrusted with power becomes, either from human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people
Wendell Phillips
#5. THE VEIL OF CIVILISATION was thin indeed, so easily torn away to reveal depravity waiting beneath, waiting, as such things always did, for the first hint of turbulence.
Steven Erikson
#6. 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
#7. The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
Umberto Eco
#8. A happy people I call them still, whose peace and genuine morals have not been contaminated with European vices; and whose errorsare only the errors of ignorance, and not the rooted depravity of a pretended civilization, and a spurious and mock Christianity.
John Gabriel Stedman
#9. If I had a single wish, I would wish sixty seconds of total depravity upon myself. For one of the greatest gifts of all is to have 'nothing' so that I can finally learn how to appreciate 'everything'.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#10. We've defined decency down now that we look at the entertainment value of it, whether the acting is good, the writing is good, the story is good, no matter the depravity, we'll watch it.
Rush Limbaugh
#11. To what level of depravity has a society descended when it condemns a man simply because he is strong and great?
Ayn Rand
#12. Yet again, isn't there something terrible in randomness - the idea that at the very bottom of its calculations, real depravity has no master plan of any kind, it's just a dreamy whim that slides out of people when they are trapped or bored or too lazy to analyze their own mania.
Aeschylus
#13. And the matron sighed over the destiny of ladies in good society, whose moral judgement led them to love unabashedly and whose depravity led them to pay for it.
Michelle Franklin
#14. 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 are just as crazy as everyone else!
Krishna Das
#15. It is when my umbrella turns inside out that I am convinced of the total depravity of inanimate things.
L.M. Montgomery
#16. Despite noble depravity, there was something intoxicating about high society.
Brandon Sanderson
#17. Clearly the sight of a well-muscled forearm incited a woman to utter depravity. How else to explain the invention of cuffs?
Tessa Dare
#18. We can never grasp the extent of our depravity until we recognize the excellencies of our created dignity.
Matt Chandler
#19. Salvation now consists of a deep wrestling in our souls with the sinfulness of our hearts, the depth of our depravity, and the desperation of our need for his grace.
David Platt
#20. The French were more tolerant of brothels than any other nation in Europe, though there was some dispute about whether this reflected enlightenment or depravity.
Max Hastings
#21. ... sorrow was always the bedfellow of depravity.
Peter Ackroyd
#22. Knowledge, learning, talents are not necessarily connected with sound moral and political principles ... And eminent abilities, accompanied with depravity of heart, render the possessor tenfold more dangerous in a community.
Noah Webster
#23. As a matter of fact, the person who loves everybody and feels at home everywhere is the true hater of mankind. He expects nothing of men, so no form of depravity can outrage him.
Ayn Rand
#24. Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation.
Samuel Johnson
#25. It's an act of our will to choose to see people simply as wildly loved by God, to assume their beauty before guessing their depravity.
Mary E. DeMuth
#26. The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.
Malcolm Muggeridge
#27. Although your mind works, your heart is
darkened with depravity; and without a pure heart there can be no complete and
true consciousness
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#28. Was this some new level of depravity? Had he developed a spinster fetish?
Lisa Kleypas
#29. I know now, from experience, that the path to joy winds through this dark valley. I think every well-adjusted human being has dealt squarely with his or her own depravity.
Donald Miller
#30. There is not much to say about Burrough's writing. It consists of semiliterate ravings by a very sick mind, a kaleidoscope or surrealistic depictions of drug-taking, violent, often misogynistic fantasy, and sexual depravity.
Roger Kimball
#31. We know that laws ought to be obeyed only if they come out of people's sense of justice, not because the state needs them to preserve its power. Laws devised for the depravity of power are as worthless as the paper they are printed on.
Aleksandar Hemon
#32. She knows what's coming, and just that look of surrender in her eyes makes me horny as fuck. Not yet, Marcus. Not yet. Your turn will come soon. I don't know why this depravity turns me on so much. I should be revolted by my own desires, but I'm not. The
Clarissa Wild
#33. Original sin, therefore, appears to be a hereditary, depravity and corruption of our nature, diffused through all the parts of the soul, rendering us obnoxious to the divine wrath and producing in us those works which the scripture calls 'works of.
John Calvin
#34. The dream of all men is to meet little sluts who are innocent but ready for all forms of depravity - which is what, more or less, all teenage girls are.
Michel Houellebecq
#35. It is of interest to note that most secular humanists continue to belabor the horrors of the Inquisition in order to establish the moral depravity of Christianity.
Guenter Lewy
#36. We have before us the fiendishness of business competition and the world war, passion and wrongdoing, antagonism between classes and moral depravity within them, economic tyranny above and the slave spirit below.
Karl Barth
#37. We have all of us to some extent become inured to a culture where viciousness and depravity are simply taken for granted, like some hideous wallpaper we have lived with for years.
Roger Kimball
#38. we lived depravity
and called it truth, silencing
our dreaming, and
our love, discarding
things holy.
John Daniel Thieme
#39. The knowledge of my depravity is the only thing that makes me special ... that I have always always always known, and have never for a moment been able to forget, that there is something terribly wrong with me.
Chris Adrian
#40. Lieutenant al-Kaseasbeh's dedication, courage and service to his country and family represent universal human values that stand in opposition to the cowardice and depravity of ISIL, which has been so broadly rejected around the globe.
Barack Obama
#41. The Bedlam that greeted James Tilly Matthews, then, was not so much a baroque spectacle of depravity as an exhausted and run-down public institution, its building falling apart and its professional image tarnished.
Mike Jay
#42. All these institutions [prisons] seemed purposely invented for the production of depravity and vice, condensed to such a degree that no other conditions could produce it, and for the spreading of this condensed depravity and vice broadcast among the whole population.
Leo Tolstoy
#43. The fanciful theory that a person's life was etched on their physical form - be it despair, happiness, or in this case sheer depravity - was entirely disproved by Blaine. That, or she already had a huge portrait or herself slowly decaying in the attic.
Tabitha McGowan
#44. To discover depravity in those whom we have loved, is one of the most exquisite tortures to a virtuous mind, and the conviction is often rejected before it is finally admitted.
Ann Radcliffe
#45. In the acceptance of depravity the sense of the past is most truly captured. What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance? Corruption is the Age of Time.
Djuna Barnes
#46. You need to get down among the people who are the dirtiest and dustiest, and the depravity, and you need to see Christ's light shining there.
Karen Kingsbury
#47. I couldn't begin to tell you what terrible trigger for such insanity lies deep in my sub-conscious. Though no doubt some would say that, indeed, it may be some demon of conscience. A deeply buried guilt for some unforgivable depravity. Then again, perhaps not.
Angel Rosa
#48. When everyone is moving towards depravity, no one seems to be moving, but if someone stops he shows up the others who are rushing on, by acting as a fixed point.
Blaise Pascal
#49. In a place like this, there would be petty despots. Factions. This was a sunless world where madness and depravity reigned.
Ann Aguirre
#50. You are plainly awash with debauchery.I'm merely an innocent casualty of your depravity.
Kendra Leigh
#51. A few years ago we colonised this place with some of our finest felons, thieves, muggers, alcoholics and prostitutes, a strain of depravity which I believe has contributed greatly to this country's amazing vigour and enterprise.
Ian Wooldridge
#52. "Secret migration" across borders is a form of human degradation and evidence of the depravity of the human conscience.
Hassan Blasim
#53. Grace never ignores the awful truth of our depravity; in fact it emphasizes it. The worse we realize we are the greater we realize God's grace.
Randy Alcorn
#54. The author squares man's depravity with still being made in the image of God with this word picture. A vase that has held beautiful roses though now broken, will nevertheless hold something of the fragrance it once contained.
A.W. Tozer
#55. Because of total depravity, you and I were desperate for God's grace before we were saved. Because of total depravity, you and I remain desperate for God's grace even after we're saved.
Tullian Tchividjian
#56. [N]obody can produce new evidence of your depravity that will make God change his mind. For God justified you with (so to speak) his eyes open. He knew the worst about you at the time when he accepted you for Jesus' sake; and the verdict which he passed then was, and is, final.
J.I. Packer
#57. An uncommon prudence is habtual with the subtler depravity, for it has everything to hide.
Herman Melville
#58. 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.
William Morley Punshon
#59. It is only against the pitch blackness of the night that we see the glory of the stars. And it is only against the pitch blackness of man's radical depravity that we can begin to see the glories of the gospel.
Paul David Washer
#60. The blessed Religion revealed in the word of God will remain an eternal and awful monument to prove that the best Institution may be abused by human depravity; and that they may even, in some instances be made subservient to the vilest purposes.
George Washington
#61. To me there's only one form of human depravity-the man without a purpose.
Ayn Rand
#62. If these children can survive the depravity inflicted on them by others, then I can certainly endure hearing about it!
Anonymous
#63. When a girl trudged through the rain at midnight to knock at the Devil's door, the Devil should at least have the depravity - if not the decency - to answer.
Tessa Dare
#64. I believe until fairly recently our destructions of nature were more or less unwitting
the by-products, so to speak, of our ignorance or weakness or depravity. It is our present principled and elaborately rationalized rape and plunder of the natural world that is a new thing under the sun.
Wendell Berry
#65. And I told him that I believed in God because I had seen His opposite. I had seen all that He was not, and been touched by it, and so I could no more deny the possibility of an ultimate goodness to set against such depravity than I could deny that daylight followed darkness, and night the day.
John Connolly
#66. The true understanding of our own depravity isn't a punishment - it's an opportunity to understand the value of the gift.
Angie Smith
#67. When I was growing up there, North Gulfport was referred to as 'Little Vietnam' because of the perception of crime and depravity within its borders - as if its denizens were simply a congregation of the downtrodden.
Natasha Trethewey
#68. Whatever vices and corruptions men see in the lives of their ministers will not be attributed to the depravity of their old nature which still abides in them, but to the gospel.
John Owen
#69. In Truth, none seem to have any Title to assert Human Nature to be necessarily and universally evil, but those whose own Minds afford them one Instance of this natural Depravity.
Henry Fielding
#70. You'd better hurry up to the Gard and back. God knows what depravity we might get up to here without your guidance.
Cassandra Clare
#71. Want of tenderness is want of parts, and is no less a proof of stupidity than depravity.
Samuel Johnson
#72. We owe God a "double debt" incurred by our passive receipt of Adam's debt but also by our active disobedience. The extent of our depravity is such that we also owe a "daring debt" because we challenge not only God's Law but His very grace as we blame Him that He has not done enough.
Foppe Vander Zwaag
#73. There are no righteous societies; there are simply different degrees of depravity. To
Howard Bloom
#74. A lack of doxology leads to depravity.
Ann Voskamp
#75. Indeed, we often so live as though we had no spirit in us, and the highest degree of human depravity is manifested by the fact that the spirit is completely stifled and the man becomes as though he were flesh alone.
John Of Kronstadt
#76. We have a talent for disguising greed under the cloak of freedom. As for past acts of depravity, we prefer to ignore those. Progress, after all, means to look ever forward, and whatever we have trampled in our wake is best forgotten.
Steven Erikson
#77. The amount of poverty and suffering required for the emergence of a Rockefeller, and the amount of depravity that the accumulation of a fortune of such magnitude entails, are left out of the picture, and it is not always possible to make the people in general see this.
Che Guevara
#78. It may be that vice, depravity, and crime are nearly always, or even perhaps always, in their essence, attempts to eat beauty, to eat what we should only look at.
Simone Weil
#79. Edward turned to Miss Marple. "It's like this, you see. As Uncle Mathew grew older, he got more and more suspicious. He didn't trust anybody." "Very wise of him," said Miss Marple. "The depravity of human nature is unbelievable.
Agatha Christie
#80. What appear to be depravity, injury, or extinction are merely traces of memory and experience obscuring the soul. These are merely shadows of the soul, never its substance. The soul itself is always pure and whole.
Ilchi Lee
#81. When it comes to depravity, if you want to know, theirs and ours are no different.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#82. 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 unaffected by it. Man's nature is all of a piece, and what affects it at all affects it altogether
James Denney
#83. Nothing is more irritating than to hear honest writers protest about depravity when one is quite certain that they make these noises without knowing what they are protesting about.
Emile Zola
#84. The only really wicked men i have ever known were those who started as idealists. that is what depravity feeds on. illusions and idealism and love gone wrong.
Prosper Merimee
#86. 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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#87. The art depicts duplicity and depravity," he said, "but its purpose is to counteract the human tendency to fill in the blanks with goodness. We do that instinctively, and in ignorance, to compensate for breaches of the soul so deplorable that we can barely fathom them." I
Anne McAneny
#88. I suppose we're built with complete free will, and as much as we're capable of depravity, to the same degree we are wired for greatness. Everyone gets to choose, I think. And my challenge is to decide where I'll place the bulk of my attention. What I'll most believe in.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#89. And the glory of character is in affronting the horrors of depravity to draw thence new nobilities of power: as Art lives and thrills in new use and combining of contrasts, and mining into the dark evermore for blacker pits of night.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#90. Is there such depravity in man as that he should injure another without benefit to himself?
Samuel Johnson
#91. There's a natural depravity in inanimate things that's quite shocking, when you think of it.
Josephine Pinckney
#92. Everyone thinks to the extent of their own depravity," #HenriettaLedyanova , #FatefulItalianPassion .
Olga Goa
#93. If humanity survives long enough to understand what he really was, they can dig him up and put on display the grandiose depravity of the twentieth century.
Barbara Kingsolver
#94. The shop was a monument to uninhibited human depravity, the kind that scars souls with permanent shadows. I
Bobby Adair
#95. It appears an extraordinary thing to me, that since there is such a diabolical spirit in the depravity of human nature, as persecution for difference of opinion in religious tenets, there never happened to be any inquisition, any auto da fe, any crusade, among the Pagans.
Laurence Sterne
#96. Just because two men live together, it doesn't mean it's depravity.
Gordon Merrick
#97. But you don't know the depravity of my mind. You don't know the thoughts I struggle with, what I fight to contain.
Alessandra Torre
#98. We're capable of understanding that someone has to drop an atomic bomb on a town of innocent civilians, but not that others have to cut up prostitutes who spread disease and moral depravity in the slums of London. Hence we call the former realism and the latter madness.
Jo Nesbo
#99. I am bound to the doctrine of the depravity of the human heart, because I find myself depraved in heart, and have daily proofs that in my flesh there dwelleth no good thing.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#100. We must recognize that if we feel helpless when facing the record of human depravity, there was always a point at which any particular scene of madness could have been stopped.
Robert H. Abzug
