Wicked Quotes - Page 20

• And thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of anybody, even of their legislators, whenever they shall be so foolish, or so wicked, as to lay and carry on designs against the liberties and properties of the subject.

  John Locke

  Community, Design, Liberty

  John Locke (2009). “The Second Treatise on Civil Government”, p.77, Prometheus Books

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• There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God

  Jonathan Edwards

  Men, Hell, Pleasure

  Jonathan Edwards, Henry Rogers, Sereno Edwards Dwight, Edward Hickman (1840). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards, A.M.”, p.7

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• Heaven would be a very hell to a wicked person.

  David Berg

  Wicked Person, Heaven, Would Be

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• But of course, there's no rest for the wicked, which I certainly am; as I said, no rest for the wicked.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Said, Courses

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• Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them! They will be paid back for what their hands have done.

  Isaiah

  Hands, Done, Woe

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• But the wicked are like the tossing sea, which cannot rest, whose waves cast up mire and mud.

  Isaiah

  Sea, Mud, Wave

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• We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.

  James Thurber

  Faults, Comedy, Mines

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• I love satire. Evelyn Waugh is one of my favorite writers of all time. He's hilarious. He's so wicked. He's so great. On the other hand, pure satire is an imitation. It doesn't really have any heart. It only holds things up to ridicule.

  T.C. Boyle

  Heart, Hands, My Favorite

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• [He] had a hole in his soul, the kind the devil loves to find. It's like an open doorway for him, lets him enter in and do his wicked work.

  Hillary Jordan

  Soul, Devil, Doorways

  Hillary Jordan (2008). “Mudbound”, p.228, Random House

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• The moon's a powerful mistress. She can reach through any wall or covering and work her wicked charms.

  Darren Shan

  Wall, Powerful, Moon

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• I used to come from the village with all that dirt and coarse ugliness like a pain within me, and the simpering pictures in the drawing-room seemed to me like a wicked attempt to find delight in what is false, while we don't mind how hard the truth is for the neighbors outside our walls. I think we have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands.

  George Eliot

  Wall, Pain, Lying

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.259, Penguin

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• Caffeine gives me hope. Sometimes, when I brew my wicked strong Irish black tea just perfect, about halfway through the mug I feel a clear and overwhelming feeling of optimism. It didn't surprise me when a study a few years ago implied that suicide was much less likely among coffee and tea drinkers.

  John Vanderslice

  Suicide, Strong, Coffee

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• In the forest of primeval
  A school for Good and Evil
  Twin towers like two heads
  One for the pure
  And one for the wicked
  Try to escape you'll always fail,
  The only way out is
  Through a fairytale.

  Soman Chainani

  School, Two, Evil

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• The heart of man is "deceitful and desperately wicked."

  Pat Robertson

  Heart, Men, Deceitful

  Pat Robertson (1984). “Answers to 200 of life's most probing questions”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It is imperative to exercise over big business a control and supervision which is unnecessary as regards small business. All business must be conducted under the law, and all business men, big or little, must act justly. But a wicked big interest is necessarily more dangerous to the community than a wicked little interest. 'Big business' in the past has been responsible for much of the special privilege which must be unsparingly cut out of our national life.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Cutting, Exercise, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (1913). “Progressive Principles: Selections from Addresses Made During the Presidential Campaign of 1912”

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• Africans had to be taught that nudity is wicked; this was done very cheaply by missionaries.

  Bertrand Russell

  Done, Taught, Nudity

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “The Impact of Science on Society”, p.20, Routledge

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• When anaesthetics were invented they were thought to be wicked as being an attempt to thwart God's will. Insanity was thought to be due to diabolic possession, and it was believed that demons inhabiting a madman could be driven out by inflicting pain upon him, and so making them uncomfortable. In pursuit of this opinion, lunatics were treated for years on end with systematic and conscientious brutality.

  Bertrand Russell

  Pain, Years, Insanity

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.107, Routledge

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• Few things have done more harm than the belief on the part of individuals or groups (or tribes or states or nations or churches) that he or she or they are in sole possession of the truth: especially about how to live, what to be and do - and that those who differ from them are not merely mistaken, but wicked or mad: and need restraining or suppressing.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Mad, Church, Groups

  "Unreasonable behaviour" by David Beresford, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2007.

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• It is a wicked thing to be neutral between right and wrong.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Wicked Things

  Theodore Roosevelt (2005). “Fear God and Take Your Own Part”, p.26, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I am a sick man...I am a wicked man. An unattractive man.  I think my liver hurts.  However, i don't know a fig about my sickness, and am not sure what it is that hurts me.  I am not being treated and never have been, though I respect medicine.  What's more, I am also superstitious in the extreme; well, at least enough to respect medicine.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Hurt, Men, Thinking

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• It is not possible that a just God should forgive people who are wicked because another person who was good endured agony by being nailed to a cross.

  Rebecca West

  Agony, People, Forgiving

  Rebecca West (2010). “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia”, p.475, Open Road Media

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• If god really wanted people to be free of [wicked thoughts], he should have taken more care to invent a different species.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Taken, Should Have, People

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.74, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• [Jesus] teaches that just as the sun gives light to both wicked and good, and the rain brings nourishment to righteous and unrighteous, God's compassion embraces all people. There are no pre-conditions for it, nothing we need to do first, nothing we have to believe. When we are ready to receive it, it is already there. And the more we live in its presence, the more effortlessly if flows through us, until we find that we no longer need external rules or Bibles or Messiahs.

  Stephen Mitchell

  Jesus, Rain, Believe

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• Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Pope Leo XIII (1990). “A Light in the Heavens: Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII”, p.130, TAN Books

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• The greatest benefit derived from the study of science is that it lifts you out of and above the littleness of daily trials. We learn to live in the universe as a part of it; we cannot seperate ourselves from it - our every act connects us with it - our every act affects the whole. Standing under the canopy of stars and remembering their presence you could scarcely do a petty deed, or think a wicked thought.

  Maria Mitchell

  Stars, Thinking, Deeds

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