Rottenness Quotes

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct. - Thomas Jefferson

When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble: when he cometh up unto the people, he will invade them with his troops. - Bible

Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness. - Bible

The perfection of rottenness. - William James

So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere. - Beatrice Potter Webb

Offices are as acceptable here as elsewhere, and whenever a man has cast a longing eye on them, a rottenness begins in his conduct. - Thomas Jefferson

Never as then, amid suicides, hysteria, and groups of fainting people, have I felt the sensation of real death, death without hope, death that is nothing but rottenness, for the spectacle was terrifying but devoid of greatness. - Federico Garcia Lorca

It is not the evil itself which is horrifying about our timesit 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

If this fail, / The pillared firmament is rottenness, / And earth's base built on stubble. - John Milton