Debauchery Quotes

• What is it the Bible teaches us? - raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? - to believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married, and the belief of this debauchery is called faith.

  Thomas Paine

  Bible, Believe, Religion

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• True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself, hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person.

  Albert Camus

  Self Love, Lovers, Obligation

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.103, Vintage

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• Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.

  Edmond de Goncourt

  Despair, Faces, Infinity

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• To be a poet is to place pleasure, beauty and sensual delights front and centre, it means having a predilection for debauchery.

  Nicole Brossard

  Mean, Sensual, Delight

  Nicole Brossard, Louise Forsyth (2009). “Mobility of light: the poetry of Nicole Brossard : a bilingual publication”, Wilfrid Laurier Univ Pr

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• To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.

  George Santayana

  Love, War, Calling

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.56, 谷月社

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• Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we call it the word of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind.

  Thomas Paine

  Bible, Religious, Faith Religion

  Thomas Paine (1877). “The Age of Reason”, p.15, Lyle Stuart

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• Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime? It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil.

  Marquis de Sade

  Ideas, Evil, Soul

  Sade (marquis de), Marquis de Sade (1987). “The 120 days of Sodom and other writings”, Grove Pr

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• The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.

  Voltaire

  Funny Friendship, Real, Self

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• What's your specialty? Oh, you know. Madness. Mayhem. Debauchery. And even with all that going for me, I can still make a mean mojito.

  Darynda Jones

  Mean, Madness, Mayhem

  Darynda Jones (2013). “Fifth Grave Past the Light”, p.308, Macmillan

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• I cannot be a materialist - but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing to a vicious luxury, and Whitechapel cursing to a filthy debauchery - such suffering, such dreadful suffering - and shall the short years of Christ's mission atone for it all?

  D. H. Lawrence

  Heart, Years, Luxury

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.40, Cambridge University Press

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• Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a taste for them, for their own sakes, can hardly be said to exist, and before they can be recommended as innocent or safe amusements, a very great change of ideas must take place.

  John Herschel

  Class, Ideas, Dancing

  John Herschel (2014). “Essays from the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews”, p.8, Cambridge University Press

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• Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Philosophical, Civilization, Play

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1956). “The Modern Temper”

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• Your thin white face, chérie; he said, as if he saw it for the first time. Your thin white face, with its promise of debauchery only a connoisseur could detect.

  Angela Carter

  White, Promise, Faces

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  Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.

  Satchel Paige

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• I can assure you that gay people getting married will have zero effect on your life. They won't come into your house and steal your children. They won't magically turn you into a lustful cockmonster. They won't even overthrow the government in an orgy of hedonistic debauchery because all of a sudden they have the same legal rights as the other 90 percent of our population ... you know what having these rights will make gays? Full-fledged American citizens just like everyone else, with the freedom to pursue happiness and all that entails.

  Chris Kluwe

  Zero, Children, Gay

  "'They Won't Magically Turn You Into A Lustful Cockmonster': Chris Kluwe Explains Gay Marriage To The Politician Who Is Offended By An NFL Player Supporting It". deadspin.com. September 7, 2012.

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• He [Gandhi] was not one of those saints who are marked out by their phenomenal piety from childhood onwards, nor one of the other kind who forsake the world after sensational debaucheries.

  George Orwell

  Childhood, Saint, World

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.174, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The Bible: a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind.

  Thomas Paine

  Atheist, Faith Religion, Atheism

  Thomas Paine (1861). “The Age of Reason, etc”, p.7

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• There is a great deal of difference between living and surviving. You can survive in debauchery, even in sickness and despair. But you live with a spirit of vitality and a spirit of participation, of being wanted, and having something to contribute.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Wisdom, Differences, Despair

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• Remember, that when I speak of pleasures I always mean the elegant pleasures of a rational being, and not the brutal ones of a swine. I mean la bonne chère, short of gluttony; wine, infinitely short of drunkenness; play, without the least gaming; and gallantry, without debauchery.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Wine, Mean, Play

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• When the parish priest rebuked him for his celibacy, saying it would lead him into debaucheryand sin, hesaid that a man who had to be muzzled bya wife as a protection against debauchery was not worthy of the joy of innocence. After that people began to treat him with priestly respect.

  Liam O'Flaherty

  Men, People, Wife

  'The Mermaid'.

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• I gathered poets around me and we all wrote beautiful erotica. As we were condemned to focus only on sensuality, we had violent explosions of poetry. Writing erotica became a road to sainthood rather than to debauchery.

  Anais Nin

  Beautiful, Writing, Focus

  Anais Nin (1977). “DELTA OF VENUS EROTICA”

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• Speed is not neutral. Fast living used to mean a life of debauchery; now it just means fast, but the consequences are even more serious. Speeding through life endangers our relationships and our souls.

  Mike Yaconelli

  Mean, Soul, Serious

  Mike Yaconelli (2009). “Messy Spirituality”, p.63, Harper Collins

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• The gross debaucheries and atrocious cruelties are covered with a resplendent mental veil because of the systematic exposition of the philosophic principles in all fields of vice. Its justification by logical method as well as by precepts and examples only makes vice more horrible in effect, both for degenerate and normal beings

  Iwan Bloch

  Vices, Principles, Example

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• Life could not be entirely devoted to debauchery and monkeys. Magnus had to finance all the drinking somehow.

  Cassandra Clare

  Drinking, Monkeys, Finance

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “What Really Happened in Peru”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• ...It would be more consistent that we call [the Bible] the work of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.

  Thomas Paine

  Atheist, Faith Religion, Atheism

  Thomas Paine “The Writings of Thomas Paine”, Jazzybee Verlag

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