Depraved Quotes

We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a Protective Monastery of Aesthetic Truth. It is a place where everything is incredibly expensive. - David Mamet

Today's charges involve the most disturbing of allegations. The victimization of children in the depraved manner described can never be tolerated. The sort of conduct alleged in today's charges will continue to draw the attention and energies of federal, state and local law enforcement. - Patrick Fitzgerald

To see the horrific images of the dead lying in the street unattended, bodies floating aimlessly face down in the water and Americans with no choice but to relieve themselves on the field of the Superdome - it boggles the mind that such depraved conditions descended on one of America's great cities. - Dianne Feinstein

This I hold to be the chief office of history, to rescue virtuous actions from the oblivion to which a want of records would consign them, and that men should feel a dread of being considered infamous in the opinions of posterity, from their depraved. - Publius Cornelius Tacitus

This extremely violent and depraved act of animal cruelty is particularly disturbing, not only because of the unimaginable suffering this dog was forced to endure, but also because of the implications such cruelty holds for the safety of the community at large. - Peter Wood

The privileged man, whether he be privileged politically or economically, is a man depraved in intellect and heart. - Mikhail Bakunin

Tell God all that is in your heart, as one unloads one's heart, it's pleasures, and it's pains, to a dear friend.

Tell him your troubles, that he may comfort you; tell him your joys, that he may sober them; tell him your longings, that he may purify them; tell him your dislikes, that he may help you coquer them; talk to him of your temptations, that he may shield you from them; show him the wounds of your heart, that he may heal them; lay bare your indifference to good, your depraved tastes for evil, your instability. Tell him how self-love makes you unjust to others, how vanity tempts you to be insincere, how pride disguises you to yourself and others.

If you thus pour out your weaknesses, needs, troubles, there will be no lack of what to say. You will never exhaust the subject. It is continually being renewed. People who have no secrets from each other never want for subject of conversation. They do not weigh their words, for there is nothing to be held back, neith. - Francois Fenelon

People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition; people live like that, but Americans live in white detached houses with green shutters. Rigidly, blindly, the dream takes precedence. - Margaret Mead