Charles R. Swindoll

You and I are, by birth, by nature, and by choice, inwardly depraved, which is to say that we are entirely corrupt. That's not to say that we have no good in us; we do. However, anything good in us has been tainted with evil. It touches everything. Without the redeeming power of Christ we cannot halt our own moral slide.

American Clergyman

Letitia Baldrige

Look at all those unattractive people talking about depraved things all day long on TV talk shows. People can talk about themselves, yet the art of conversation, which has to do with sharing, is disappearing. I feel as though I am chasing a runaway locomotive.

American Writer

Philip Sidney

Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of that unspotted essence, and therefore would not have the youth depraved with such opinions.

English Soldier

Michel de Montaigne

It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.

French Philosopher

Diane Paulus

We're a depraved civilization. All this technology, all the computer games and the iPhones... nobody will sit for art anymore. What a dismaying state of humanity.

American Director

Tullian Tchividjian

Thankfully, God's restraining grace keeps even the worst of us from being utterly depraved. The worst people who have ever lived could've been worse.

John Ruskin

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

English Writer

Anatole France

An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.

French Novelist

Dennis Kucinich

So actually war is politically profitable, financially profitable, morally depraved.

American Politician

Bob Cousy

I was the original socially depraved shy ghetto kid.

American Athlete

Deprave suggests a strong negative change in moral character, usually for the worse.

Negative Connotation

Use 'deprave' when discussing negative influences on larger groups, like society or communities.

Societal Impact

'Deprave' often implies an emotional or shocked reaction to moral corruption.

Emotional Weight

 expression bread and circuses from we tend to think of the gladiatorial games as decadent depraved the self-indulgence of a people in decline yet they are meant to halt all that their way for teaching people not so much how to live

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 Now, if we continue to expect rape to be what it very rarely is -- with the rapist as a depraved lower-class man