Depravity Quotes

• If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.

  Quentin Crisp

  Family, Average, Missing

  "Advanced Banter: The QI Book of Quotations". Book by John Lloyd and John Mitchinson, 2008.

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• One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.

  Klaus Kinski

  Real, Men, Judging

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Reality, Men, Intellectual

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• We have resorted to every means to win back the position that Adam lost. We have tried through education, through philosophy, through religion, through governments to throw off our yoke of depravity and sin. All our knowledge, all our inventions, all our developments and ambitious plans move us ahead only a very little before we drop back again to the point from which we started. For we are still making the same mistake that Adam made - - we are still trying to be king in our own right, and with our own power, instead of obeying God's law.

  Billy Graham

  Kings, Philosophy, Mistake

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• It is not the evil itself which is horrifying about our times – it is the way we not only tolerate evil, but have made a cult of positively worshipping weakness, depravity, rottenness and evil itself.

  George Lincoln Rockwell

  Evil, Way, Weakness

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• 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

  Grace, Awful, Facts

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• When you refuse to teach on the radical depravity of men, it is an impossibility that you bring glory to God, His Christ, and His cross, because the cross of Jesus Christ and the glory thereof is most magnified when it's placed in front of the backdrop of our depravity!

  Paul Washer

  Jesus, Men, Glory

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• 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

  Wrath, Soul, Scripture

  John Calvin (2009). “Institutes of the Christian Religion Vol. 1: Translated from the Original Latin, and Collated With the Author's Last Edition in French”, p.229, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• 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

  Heart, Knowledge Learning, Community

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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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• There is a degree of depravity in mankind which requires a certain degree of circumspection and distrust.

  James Madison

  Voting, Degrees, Certain

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.259

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• Non-Christians seem to think that the Incarnation implies some particular merit or excellence in humanity. But of course it implies just the reverse: a particular demerit and depravity. No creature that deserved Redemption would need to be redeemed. They that are whole need not the physician. Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Men, Thinking

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “The World's Last Night: And Other Essays”, p.94, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What you might see as depravity is, to me, just another aspect of the human condition.

  Asia Argento

  Might, Aspect, Human Condition

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• 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 Washer

  Stars, Night, Men

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• Although your mind works, your heart is darkened with depravity; and without a pure heart there can be no complete and true consciousness

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Heart, Mind, Consciousness

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• New York, like London, seems to be a cloacina [toilet] of all the depravities of human nature.

  Thomas Jefferson

  New York, Toilets, London

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• 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

  Heart, Wrestling, Grace

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• 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

  Blessed, Purpose, May

  George Washington, Dorothy Twohig, William Wright Abbot (1987). “The Papers of George Washington: April-June 1789”

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• Wherever we direct our view, we discover the melancholy proofs of our depravity; whether we look to ancient or modern times, to barbarous or civilized nations, to the conduct of the world around us, or to the monitor within the breast; whether we read, or hear, or act, or think, or feel, the same humiliating lesson is forced upon us.

  William Wilberforce

  Thinking, Views, Looks

  William Wilberforce (2005). “A Practical View of Preferred Christians”, p.26, Cosimo, Inc.

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• To read of human depravity in the police reports is one thing, to see it fall like a black shadow across one's life is another.

  William John Locke

  Fall, Police, Black

  William John Locke (2012). “Septimus”, p.135, tredition

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• Nobody ever became depraved all at once.
  [Lat., Nemo repente fuit turpissimus.]

  Juvenal

  Nemo, Depraved

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• 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

  Men, Pieces, Human Nature

  James Denney (1895). “Studies in Theology: Lectures Delivered in Chicago Theological Seminary”

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• Someone who is perennially surprised that depravity exists, who continues to feel disillusioned (even incredulous) when confronted with evidence of what humans are capable of inflicting in the way of gruesome, hands-on cruelties upon other humans, has not reached moral or psychological adulthood.

  Susan Sontag

  Hands, Way, Moral

  Susan Sontag (2013). “Regarding the Pain of Others”, p.114, Macmillan

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• 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

  Moving, Rushing, Acting

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• I have been reading the morning paper. I do it every morning-knowing well that I shall find in it the usual depravities and basenesses and hypocrisies and cruelties that make up civilization, and cause me to put in the rest of the day pleading for the damnation of the human race. I cannot seem to get my prayers answered, yet I do not despair.

  Mark Twain

  Morning, Prayer, Reading

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