Wickedness Quotes
It wasn't only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding; above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you.
Just as a strongly flowing fountain is not blocked up by a handful of earth, so the compassion of the Creator is not overcome by the wickedness of his creatures.
War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power.
Virtue and vice are not arbitrary things; but there is a natural and eternal reason for goodness and virtue, and against vice and wickedness.
It is a man's own dishonesty, his crimes, his wickedness, and boldness, that takes away from him soundness of mind; these are the furies, these the flames and firebrands, of the wicked.
This also is a part of the Church's teaching, that the world was made and took its beginning at a certain time, and is to be destroyed on account of its wickedness.
It is not difficult to avoid death. It is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
Wickedness comes to its height by degrees. He that dares say of a less sin, Is it not a little one? will ere long say of a greater, Tush, God regards it not!
Pride, if not the origin, is the medium of all wickedness-the atmosphere without which it would instantly die away.
The effects of human wickedness are written on the page of history in characters of blood: but the impression soon fades away; so more blood must be shed to renew it.
The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
There is this of good in real evils; they deliver us, while they last, from the petty despotism of all that were imaginary.
Thou art beautiful because God created thee, but thou art a slave to sin... wickedness has made you ugly.
Christ was either the grandest, guiltiest of impostors, by a marvelous and most subtle refinement of wickedness, or He was God manifest in the flesh.
Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop; the gut expanded to take in more and more.
It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means.
How ridiculous not to flee from one's own wickedness, which is possible, yet endeavor to flee from another's which is not.
Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils.
It is supposable that, in the eyes of angels, a struggle down a dark lane and a battle of Leipsic differ in nothing but excess of wickedness.
Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman.
I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.
Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.
Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood wears, Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs.
Two starving men cannot be twice as hungry as one; but two rascals can be ten times as vicious as one.
Conflict, not progress, is the word that defines man's path from darkness into light. No holiness is won by any other means than this, that wickedness should be slain day by day, and hour by hour.
Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will.
...it isn't foolish or wicked to enjoy. Wickedness is hurting people on purpose. I love what you are and who you are and how you are. You give me great joy. And you make horrible coffee.
Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody's fine feelings may be offended.
For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.
As all our wickedness consists in turning away from our Creator, so all our goodness consists in uniting ourselves with Him.
We never deceive people to benefit them, for knavery is a compound of wickedness and falsehood.
Twenty-year-olds have a kind of emotional idealism about relationships and about the world that enables them to say, 'No, you lied to me. Goodbye.' When they see wickedness, they walk away.
