debauch quotes

A man, indeed, is not genteel when he gets drunk; but most vicesmay be committed verygenteelly: a manmay debauch his friend's wife genteelly: he may cheat at cardsgenteelly.

-James Boswell
  The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.2, entry for 6  Apr.

Lenin was right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning theexisting basisofsociety thanto debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces ofeconomic lawontheside ofdestruction, and doesit in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose.

-John Maynard, 1st Baron Keynes (of Tilton)
  The Economic Consequences of the Peace.