Joyce Meyer Quotes

However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.

The history of governments is one of the most immoral parts of human history.

The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances... [Slavery]

The corruption doesn't cease, the crime rates don't come down, no matter which party comes to power.

Let's face it: the world is twisted. And rotten.

How can there be peace when drunkards, drug dealers, communists, atheists, New Age worshipers of Satan, secular humanists, oppressive dictators, greedy money changers, revolutionary assassins, adulterers, and homosexuals are on top?

Be not familiar with the idea of wrong, for sin in fancy mothers many an ugly fact.

Vice is its own reward.

Other vices make their own way; this makes way for all vices. He that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice.

In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.

The profound immoralities of our time are cruelty, indifference, injustice and the use of others as means rather than ends in themselves.

Italy is the home of art and swindling; home of religion and moral rottenness

The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds; that of a knave a series of greater. We degrade life by our follies and vices, and then complain that the unhappiness which is only their accompaniment is inherent in the constitution of things.

A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired. This maxim, drawn from the experience of all ages, makes it the height of folly to intrust any set of men with power which is not under every possible control; perpetual strides are made after more as long as there is any part withheld.

The choking, sweltering, deadly, and killing rule of no rule; the consecration of cupidity and braying of folly, and dim stupidity and baseness, in most of the affairs of men. Slopshirts attainable three-halfpence cheaper by the ruin of living bodies and immortal souls.

When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.

Sordid and infamous sensuality, the most dreadful evil that issued from the box of Pandora, corrupts every heart, and eradicates every virtue. Fly! wherefore dost thou linger? Fly, cast not one look behind thee; nor let even thy thought return to the accursed evil for a moment.

When a religion or ideology becomes dominant, the lack of controls will result in widening spirals of license leading to degradation and corruption.

For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.

But this is not difficult, O Athenians! to escape death; but it is much more difficult to avoid depravity, for it runs swifter than death. And now I, being slow and aged, am overtaken by the slower of the two; but my accusers, being strong and active, have been overtaken by the swifter, wickedness. And now I depart, condemned by you to death; but they condemned by truth, as guilty of iniquity and injustice: and I abide my sentence, and so do they. These things, perhaps, ought so to be, and I think that they are for the best.

The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior.

I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don't want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.

He who does wrong does wrong against himself. He who acts unjustly acts unjustly to himself, because he makes himself bad.

The way to wickedness is always through wickedness.

Intemperance is a hydra with a hundred heads. She never stalks abroad unaccompanied with impurity, anger, and the most infamous profligacies.