rottenness quotes

Avirtuouswomanisa crowntoher husband: but shethat maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Proverbs12:4.

It is defiantthe desperate act of men too profoundly convinced of the rottenness of our civilization to want to save a shred of its respectability.

- Sir Herbert Edward Read
  Catalogue of the International Surrealist Exhibition, New Burlington Galleries, London, Jun/Jul, introduction.