Wickedness Quotes

Wickedness Quote of the day

The World is not ruined by the wickedness of the wicked, but by the weakness of the good.

Religion is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it as I detest everything that is cruel.

Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to fatten our greedy bodies by cramming in other bodies, to have one living creature fed by the death of another!

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

...is it surprising that today we have become so morally blind (for wickedness blinds) that we save the baby whales at great cost, and murder millions of unborn children?

Our wickedness shall not overpower the unspeakable goodness and mercy of God; our dullness shall not overpower God's wisdom, nor our infirmity God's omnipotence.

...It would be more consistent that we call [the Bible] the work of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.

Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness.

God is punishing me for my past wickedness by keeping me alive and in as much pain as he can.

The holy man, though he be distressed, does not eat food mixed with wickedness. The lion, though hungry, will not eat what is unclean.

If a person seems wicked, do not cast him away. Awaken him with your words, elevate him with your deeds, repay his injury with your kindness. Do not cast him away; cast away his wickedness.

Man is worse than an animal when he is an animal.

In morals, what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion, what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

All things truly wicked start from innocence.

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

Present-Day Wickedness, Apostasy and Modern Civilization Cannot Prevent Revival.

The Bible: a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind.

How great, therefore, the wickedness of human nature is! How many girls there are who prevent conception and kill and expel tender fetuses, although procreation is the work of God.

Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.

In wickedness of pride is lost the light to understand how little grace is earned and how much given.

But all the wickedness in the world which man may do or think is no more to the mercy of God than a live coal dropped in the sea.

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

When You smoke herb it reveals you to yourself. All the wickedness you do is revealed by the herb - it's you conscience and gives you an honest picture of yourself.

He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance.

Lend your light to the blind. Why should the wickedness of men irritate you, when it is only blindness?

We're living in an unprecedented day (when) evil is no longer evil. We've changed the terminology-- iniquity is now infirmity; wickedness is now weakness; devilry is now deficiency.

Those who submit to the Lord with simple heart will run the good race. If they keep their minds on a leash, they will not draw the wickedness of the demons onto themselves.

More harm is done by fools through foolishness than is done by evil-doers through wickedness.

By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than all the mark of Adam may redress.

So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.

. . . it seems to me certain that more people are killed out of righteous stupidity than out of wickedness.

Combinations of wickedness would overwhelm the world, by the advantage which licentious principles afford, did not those who have long practised perfidy grow faithless to each other.

The ignorance of the world leaves one at the mercy of its malice.

Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.

It is a characteristic of the weak and criminal to attribute to others the misfortunes that are the result of their own wickedness.

Wickedness may prosper for a while.

Call it no more free-will, but slavish lust; free to evil, but free from good, till regenerating grace loosens the bands of wickedness.

Make people happy and there will not be half the quarreling, or a tenth part of the wickedness there now is.

It is privilege that causes evil in the world, not wickedness, and not men.

Men are always wicked at bottom unless they are made good by some compulsion.

To philosopher and historian the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.

What has this unfeeling age of ours left untried, what wickedness has it shunned?

There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals.

There seems to be no end to the senseless wickedness done on this little planet in a minor solar system, and we puny mortals appear to be decreasing in importance so far as the universe is concerned.

Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.

It is an esoteric doctrine of society, that a little wickedness is good to make muscle; as if conscience were not good for hands and legs.

The wickedness of the few makes the calamity of the many.