Human depravity originates in the vices of political constitution.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
What you might see as depravity is, to me, just another aspect of the human condition.
To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.
It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.
Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.
Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right - constitutional right.
Law is born from despair of human nature.
It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.