Boasting about badness without actively involving in badness is mere madness.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Michael Bassey Johnson Activity Boasting Claim Complaint Cruelty Depravity Harm Insane Madness

True gospel preaching always changes the heart. It either awakens it or hardens it.

~ Chan Kilgore

Chan Kilgore Depravity Evangelism Salvation

When virtue has slept, it will arise again all the fresher.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche Depravity Virtue

Knowing God without knowing our wretchedness leads to pride. Knowing our wretchedness without knowing God leads to despair. Knowing Jesus Christ is the middle course, because in him we find both God and our wretchedness.

~ Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal Arrogance Depravity

How can a man’s candour be seen in all its lustre unless he has a few failings to talk of? But he had an agreeable confidence that his faults were all of a generous kind—impetuous, arm-blooded, leonine; never crawling, crafty, reptilian.

~ George Eliot

George Eliot Arrogance Depravity Self Deception

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

Michel Houellebecq Depravity Innocence Slut Teenage Girls

You cannot change people but you can change the system so that people are not pushed into doing evil things.

~ Slavoj Žižek

Slavoj Žižek Activism Depravity

we lived depravityand called it truth, silencingour dreaming, andour love, discardingthings holy.

~ John Daniel Thieme

John Daniel Thieme Abandonment Depravity Discarded Regrets Silenced