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  • What sort of tree is there which will not, if neglected, grow crooked and unfruitful; what but Will, if rightly ordered, prove productive and bring its fruit to maturity? What strength of body is there which will not lose its vigor and fall to decay by laziness, nice usage, and debauchery?

    Nice   Fall   Maturity  
  • One of the greatest artifices the devil uses to engage men in vice and debauchery, is to fasten names of contempt on certain virtues, and thus fill weak souls with a foolish fear of passing for scrupulous, should they desire to put them in practice.

    Men   Practice   Names  
  • When my face is flushed with blood, it becomes red and obscene. It betrays at the same time, through morbid reflexes, a bloody erection and a demanding thirst for indecency and criminal debauchery.

    Blood   Criminals   Red  
    Georges Bataille (1985). “Visions of Excess: Selected Writings 1927-1939”, p.8, Manchester University Press
  • 8.45 a.m. My mother is in the hospital grounds smoking a cigarette. She is looking old and haggard. All the debauchery is catching up with her.

    Sue Townsend (1991). “Adrian Mole, from Minor to Major: The Mole Diaries : the First Ten Years”
  • I have grown weary of literature: silence alone comforts me. If I continue to write, it’s because I have nothing more to accomplish in this world except to wait for death. Searching for the word in darkness. Any little success invades me and puts me in full view of everyone. I long to wallow in the mud. I can scarcely control my need for self-abasement, my craving for licentiousness and debauchery. Sin tempts me, forbidden pleasures lure me. I want to be both pig and hen, then kill them and drink their blood.

    Writing   Pigs   Self  
    Clarice Lispector (1986). “The Hour of the Star”, p.70, New Directions Publishing
  • In other words, homosexuality was no longer to be considered an illegal form of debauchery or perversion in which one willingly engaged a person of his own sex, but a mental illness which one blamed on his mother. Consequently, a homosexual is not responsible for his behavior - it's his mother's fault!

    Mother   Sex   Scary  
    Tim F. LaHaye (1978). “The unhappy gays: what everyone should know about homosexuality”
  • I can assure you that gay people getting married will have zero effect on your life. They won't come into your house and steal your children. They won't magically turn you into a lustful cockmonster. They won't even overthrow the government in an orgy of hedonistic debauchery because all of a sudden they have the same legal rights as the other 90 percent of our population ... you know what having these rights will make gays? Full-fledged American citizens just like everyone else, with the freedom to pursue happiness and all that entails.

    Zero   Children   Gay  
    "'They Won't Magically Turn You Into A Lustful Cockmonster': Chris Kluwe Explains Gay Marriage To The Politician Who Is Offended By An NFL Player Supporting It". deadspin.com. September 7, 2012.
  • Is O used by René and Sir Stephen, or does she in fact use them, and...all those irons and chains and obligatory debauchery, to fulfill her own dream-that is, her own destruction and death? And, in some surreptitious way, isn't she in charge of them? Doesn't she bend them to her will?

    Dream   Iron   Doe  
  • Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime? It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil.

    Ideas   Evil   Soul  
    Sade (marquis de), Marquis de Sade (1987). “The 120 days of Sodom and other writings”, Grove Pr
  • There is a great deal of difference between living and surviving. You can survive in debauchery, even in sickness and despair. But you live with a spirit of vitality and a spirit of participation, of being wanted, and having something to contribute.

  • Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a taste for them, for their own sakes, can hardly be said to exist, and before they can be recommended as innocent or safe amusements, a very great change of ideas must take place.

    Class   Ideas   Dancing  
    John Herschel (2014). “Essays from the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews”, p.8, Cambridge University Press
  • Without businesse debauchery.

  • What's your specialty? Oh, you know. Madness. Mayhem. Debauchery. And even with all that going for me, I can still make a mean mojito.

    Darynda Jones (2013). “Fifth Grave Past the Light”, p.308, Macmillan
  • To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.

    Love   War   Calling  
    George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.56, 谷月社
  • ...It would be more consistent that we call [the Bible] the work of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.

    Thomas Paine “The Writings of Thomas Paine”, Jazzybee Verlag
  • Life could not be entirely devoted to debauchery and monkeys. Magnus had to finance all the drinking somehow.

    Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “What Really Happened in Peru”, p.12, Simon and Schuster
  • Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.

  • To be a poet is to place pleasure, beauty and sensual delights front and centre, it means having a predilection for debauchery.

    Mean   Sensual   Delight  
    Nicole Brossard, Louise Forsyth (2009). “Mobility of light: the poetry of Nicole Brossard : a bilingual publication”, Wilfrid Laurier Univ Pr
  • See Social-life and Glee sit down, All joyous and unthinking, Till, quite transmugrified, they're grown Debauchery and Drinking

    Change   Drinking   Glee  
    Robert Burns (1854). “Life and Works”, p.225
  • Work like you don't need the money.

    Dance   Work   Hippie  
  • Remember, that when I speak of pleasures I always mean the elegant pleasures of a rational being, and not the brutal ones of a swine. I mean la bonne chère, short of gluttony; wine, infinitely short of drunkenness; play, without the least gaming; and gallantry, without debauchery.

    Wine   Mean   Play  
  • The Bible: a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind.

    Thomas Paine (1861). “The Age of Reason, etc”, p.7
  • Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.

    Joseph Wood Krutch (1956). “The Modern Temper”
  • One of the predictions that I was the first to make is now materializing, and that prediction was that Obama isn't going away. That Obama is going to hang around Washington and do everything he can to undermine the next president, particularly if and when the next president tries to unravel any of the gigantic web of deceit and debauchery that Obama has implemented as president.

    Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com
  • Sex, greed, debauchery - I love it. Brian Azzarello is brilliant.

    Sex   Greed   Debauchery  
  • When I was a drunk, New York was the greatest place in the world. You walk everywhere, everything is open until four in the morning, and people go to New York looking for debauchery.

    "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.
  • Christianity does not oppose debauchery and uncontrollable passions and the like as much as it opposes... flat mediocrity, this nauseating atmosphere, this homey, civil togetherness, where admittedly great crimes, wild excesses, and powerful aberrations cannot easily occur - but where God's unconditional demand has even greater difficulty in accomplishing what it requires: the majestic obedience of submission.

  • He [Gandhi] was not one of those saints who are marked out by their phenomenal piety from childhood onwards, nor one of the other kind who forsake the world after sensational debaucheries.

    Childhood   Saint   World  
    George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.174, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.

  • What is it the Bible teaches us? - raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? - to believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married, and the belief of this debauchery is called faith.

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