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    1. If evil spirits had openly assumed the government of the nations, they could not have surpassed the ordinary reigning houses and hierarchies of the earth in the neglect of the true ends of administration, or in the active promotion of every influence, which can delude or deprave mankind


    2. He would stay a couple of months out of the twelve, and disgrace and insult and deprave me, and then go; so that I longed to drown myself in the pond a thousand times over; but I did not dare do it


    3. Only when art has attained to that, will art neither divert nor deprave men as it does now, calling on them to expend their best strength on it, but be what it should be,—a vehicle wherewith to transmit religious, Christian perception from the realm of reason and intellect into that of feeling, and really drawing people in actual life nearer to that perfection and unity indicated to them by their religious perception


    4. Let us leave them to reign, eat, drink, and be feasted, as priests and sophists of old have before them, so long as they do not deprave men!


    5. His most skilful inventions are either directly harmful to the people, such as guns, torpedoes, solitary prisons, and so on; or they are not only useless but quite inaccessible to them, such as electric light, telephones, and the innumerable improvements of comfort; or lastly, they deprave the people and rob them of their last kopek, that is, their last labour, for spirits, wine, beer, opium, tobacco, finery, and all sorts of trifles


    6. , the next by Catherine, and the day after by Pougachef; one day by a mad king of Bavaria, another by William? Why should I promise to obey them, knowing them to be wicked or foolish people, or else not knowing them at all? Why am I to hand over the fruits of my labors to them in the shape of taxes, knowing that the money will be spent on the support of officials, prisons, churches, armies, on things that are harmful, and on my own enslavement? Why should I punish myself? Why should I go wasting my time and hoodwinking myself, giving to miscreant evildoers a semblance of legality, by taking part in elections, and pretending that I am taking part in the government, when I know very well that the real control of the government is in the hands of those who have got hold of the army? Why should I go to the law courts to take part in the trial and punishment of men because they have sinned, knowing, if I am a Christian, that the law of vengence is replaced by the law of love, and, if I am an educated man, that punishments do not reform, but only deprave those on whom they are inflicted? And why, most of all, am I to consider as enemies the people of a neighboring nation, with whom I have hitherto lived and with whom I wish to live in love and harmony, and to kill and rob them, or to bring them to misery, simply in order that the keys of the temple at Jerusalem may be in the hands of one archbishop and not another, that one German and not another may be prince in Bulgaria, or that the English rather than the American merchants may capture seals?


    1. We know exactly how far we are depraved and how far we are manipulated


    2. He knew there were depraved wrecks of human beings who lived in the abandoned areas, eating wevn and using whatever money they could get their hands on to keep themselves in stupors that yaag could never reach


    3. “He is an evil and depraved man


    4. And they have the nerve to call America depraved


    5. If he allowed this depraved badger to de-claw him, his remaining fighters would live


    6. ‘how are you’ me, you depraved sicko, who is that with you?”


    7. Not what he thinks, the depraved monster,


    8. depraved beyond measure is demonstrated, and on a world that was otherwise without any chance


    9. No matter how depraved avant-garde art becomes, there is always the nouveau avant-garde waiting to drive art to new depths


    10. depraved and spoiled sorts who only want big cocks and swerving hips in order to fulfill

    11. For instance, your earlier observation contrasting my lovely grandchildren with the depraved SS would be considered garbage according to Sci–Coll, because the State's scientific research suggests the opposite


    12. outcast whose depraved actions have rocked the military to its core


    13. probably guessed from my speech, one of those rare depraved


    14. (though, in fact, most children are more depraved than they let on)


    15. That was seen as the thinking of a depraved mind


    16. this base, depraved act, were the same people that Mikkel wanted


    17. when he realized what a depraved and perverted individual Chandler


    18. In this city every depraved deed are committed known to humans and a few unknown to humans


    19. He knew people were depraved but some of those antics went way beyond anything he could imagine or knew about


    20. Furthermore, under many state laws, killing through action showing a depraved indifference to human life can qualify as murder in the first degree

    21. - A killing that results from an act that demonstrates the perpetrators depraved indifference to human life


    22. The third main type of second degree murder occurs when a victim dies as a result of the perpetrators depraved indifference to human life


    23. Depraved indifference to human life can mean different things in different jurisdictions, but in general it signifies that the perpetrator had an utter disregard for the potential damage to human life that their actions could cause


    24. Because they had become depraved,


    25. But if you behave with wickedness or are depraved


    26. He is my power against all those depraved


    27. but not the evil and depraved


    28. He saw most men as weak rather than wicked, more distraught than depraved


    29. He is described as base and depraved in the face of God


    30. They have over time, depraved rather than

    31. The architecture reminded me of ancient biblical city, except this city was foul and depraved


    32. The shop was a mirror image of the palm reader I had met with on earth, only this shop was foul and depraved


    33. Once I entered the suit it formed to my current likeness, acting like a mirror projecting an image of my current depraved state


    34. Zhukov couldn’t help smile at that: Beria’s sinister reputation as a depraved man was well known around Moscow


    35. If Marie Demaersk is still alive today, the probabilities are that she has been abused regularly since her disappearance, maybe even raped by a depraved pervert…or worse


    36. The depraved and the perverts


    37. And the Muslims say that Enoch is supposed to defend his life with the sword against the depraved children of the Earth


    38. I cannot think of a better title for those terrorists than the depraved children of the Earth


    39. depraved that she had been permanently 86'd from Rudy's, which is about as low as you could


    40. What's missing from their criteria is the quality and quantity, the SHEER BADNESS of the sort of depraved behavior typical of a

    41. She had just survived a painful and depraved death


    42. “You could dunk,” she whispered, as if mouthing the most decadent and depraved activity known to man


    43. thought of being anyone’s bitch horrified her, but the thought of being the bitch of a depraved


    44. “Even if a man of the most depraved conduct worships me in-


    45. not hers or his depraved mind


    46. clares in the thirtieth verse of Chapter 9 : "Even if a man of the most depraved conduct worships incessantly, he is worthy of being regarded as


    47. When there are psychologically depraved persons bent on bringing the rest of the


    48. By then, he will try hard and use different means to fulfill the wishes imposed upon him by his depraved society paying no attention and showing no deterring conscience to the crooked methods he may follow to quench his burning thirst, so long as this way or that one may help him to actualize his wishes


    49. never seen a more depraved time in the history of mankind


    50. Poor certainly, but not the most degraded or depraved








































    1. An impure Vishnu depraves all India


    2. But it is not only in Church matters and patriotic matters that art depraves; it is art in our time that serves as the chief cause of the perversion of people in the most important question of social life,—in their sexual relations


    1. ,depraving the alpha of his true mate


    2. ’ Such has been the depraving effect of many forms of Protestant opinion, that there are not a few who hold it as one of the plainest truths, that salvation has been attached by God in all ages to the intellectual knowledge of Christ


    3. The action of infernal spirits has established all-various foul delusions over the largest portions of the earth, and during the longest spaces of history; so that the question recurs, notwithstanding consolatory reflections of the order above set forth, What will be the doom of those countless millions who have lived under the shades of depraving heathenism, lived in the sin which was the essential element of such heathenism, popular and philosophical, and apparently died in the evil condition which it entails;—those countless millions, of whom not the broadest charity can affect to suppose that they were generally aught else than workers of unrighteousness? Are we compelled to believe, by the New Testament revelation, that all of these, without any further opportunity of knowledge or repentance, will be consigned to irrevocable destruction, and 'perish without law’?


    4. Truth is the only basis of virtue; and we cannot, without depraving our minds, endeavour to please a lover or husband, but in proportion


    5. But when, to the usual depraving influence of military service with its honours, uniforms, flags, its permitted violence and murder, there is added the depraving influence of riches and nearness to and intercourse with members of the Imperial family, as is the case in the chosen regiment of the Guards in which all the officers are rich and of good family, then this depraving influence creates in the men who succumb to it a perfect mania of selfishness


    6. “Just as if a problem had been set to find the best, the surest means of depraving the greatest number of persons,” thought Nekhludoff, while investigating the deeds that were being done in the prisons and halting stations


    7. It became clear to him that all the dreadful evil he had been witnessing in prisons and jails and the quiet self-satisfaction of the perpetrators of this evil were the consequences of men trying to do what was impossible; trying to correct evil while being evil themselves; vicious men were trying to correct other vicious men, and thought they could do it by using mechanical means, and the only consequence of all this was that the needs and the cupidity of some men induced them to take up this so-called punishment and correction as a profession, and have themselves become utterly corrupt, and go on unceasingly depraving those whom they torment


    8. would say, "Rather let there be no art at all than continue the depraving art, or simulation of art, which now exists


    9. Those who bear on their shoulders all the labour of life and who feed and clothe the scientists and artists cannot recognize the usefulness of the activity of these men because they cannot even form an idea about an activity which always appears to workmen useless and even depraving


    10. But the question ought to have been put thus,—as it would have to be put to a learned rabbi who had studied all the Talmud, and knew the exact number of letters in the Holy Scripture, and all the subtleties of his science:—“What can I do, who, from unlucky circumstances, have lost my best years in study instead of accommodating myself to labour,—in learning the French language, the piano, grammar, geography, law, poetry; in reading novels, romances, philosophical theories, and in performing military exercises? what can I do, who have passed the best years of my life in idle occupations, depraving the soul? what can I do, notwithstanding these unlucky conditions of the past, in order to requite those men, who, during all this time, have fed and clothed me, and who still continue to feed and to clothe me?”

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    Synonyms for "deprave"

    corrupt debase debauch demoralise demoralize deprave misdirect pervert profane subvert vitiate degrade degenerate deteriorate

    "deprave" definitions

    corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality