Marianne Faithfull Quotes

The world is increasing in wickedness.

When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honor is a private station.

... a moral skunk .... [who has] debauched America ...

It's still easier to find the correct Hoover bag than to find one pure person, one pure faith, on the globe.

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.

Children may be born angels, but with all the temptations out there in the world, it takes work to try to keep them that way.

I do believe quite strongly in evil.

The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.

He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the just, both of them are abomination …

Books are feeders of brothels.

Knavery seems to be so much the striking feature of its [America's] inhabitants that it may not in the end be an evil that they become aliens to this Kingdom.

He is only a filthy-brained child, conceived in ruthlessness and dedicated to the proposition that Judas Iscariot was a piker.

Never will there be grief enough over the corruption of morals so extensively increasing and promoted by irreligious and obscene writings, theatrical spectacles and meretricious houses established almost everywhere; by other depraved arts and monstrous portents of every error disseminated in all directions; by the abominable impurities of all vices and crimes growing constantly and the deadly virus of unbelief and indifferentism spread far and wide; by contempt for ecclesiastical authority

Keep your hands clean and pure from the infamous vice of corruption, a vice so infamous that it degrades even the other vices that may accompany it.

Pompeii was an incredibly corrupt city. Pompeii was the Las Vegas of the Roman Empire.

Purity is a negative state and therefore contrary to nature.

The child race is fresh, eager, interested, innocent, imaginative, healthy and full of faith, where the adult race, more often than not, is stale, spiritually debauched, unimaginative, unhealthy, and without faith.

Fashion was the only law, pleasure the only pursuit, and the splendour of dress and furniture was the only distinction of the citizens of Antioch. The arts of luxury were honoured; the serious and manly virtues were the subject of ridicule; and the contempt for female modesty and reverent age announced the universal corruption of the capital of the East.

Sins are timeless. Sins are an everyday reality for every one. Sin has been in existence since the beginning of man, since Adam and Eve. It will always be pertinent.

Badness is only spoiled goodness.

What havoc, said I to myself, would these manners make in America! Our governors, our judges, our senators or representatives, and even our ministers, would be appointed by harlots, for money; and their judgments, decrees, and decisions, be sold to repay themselves, or, perhaps, to procure the smiles of profligate females.

Any other town you go to there's this little devil and a little angel on your shoulder. A little good advice, a little bad advice.You go to Las Vegas, there's like a devil and a devil and they're just battling it out the whole time. It's like, "Smoke some crack!" "Get a hooker!" And then I go, "YEA! Yea, this is a good town. Smoke some crack and get a hooker! Alright!"

Well, every little boy thinks he invented sin. Virtue we think we learn, because we are told about it. But sin is our own designing.

There are no uncontaminated angels