Wicked Quotes - Page 39

• Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked.

  Voltaire

  Men, Fanaticism

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• Though it is a great mistake to make friends of the wicked and foolish, it is unwise to make enemies of them, for they are very numerous.

  John Lubbock

  Mistake, Enemy, Foolish

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• The Church of Rome has made it an article of faith that no man can be saved out of their church, and all other religious sects approach this dreadful opinion in proportion to their ignorance, and the influence of ignorant or wicked priests.

  John Adams

  Religious, Ignorance, Men

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1850). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: Diary, with passages from an autobiography. Notes of debates in the Continental Congress, in 1775 and 1776. Autobiography”, p.5

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• What is called zazen is sitting on a zafu [pillow] in a quiet room, absolutely still, in the exact and proper position and without uttering a word, the mind empty of any thought, good or wicked. It is continuing to sit peacefully, facing a wall, and nothing more. Every day.

  Taisen Deshimaru

  Wall, Mind, Sitting

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• The believing mind is externally impervious to evidence. The most that can be accomplished with it is to induce it to substitute one delusion for another. It rejects all overt evidence as wicked.

  H. L. Mencken

  Believe, Mind, Substitutes

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• We ought to flee the friendship of the wicked, and the enmity of the good.

  Epictetus

  Enmity, Ought

  Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.430

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• Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.

  Seneca the Younger

  Demand, Equal

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• If cathedrals had been universities If dungeons of the Inquisition had been laboratories If Christians had believed in character instead of creed If they had taken from the bible only that which is GOOD and thrown away the wicked and absurd If temple domes had been observatories If priests had been philosophers If missionaries had taught useful arts instead of bible lore If astrology had been astronomy If the black arts had been chemistry If superstition had been science If religion had been humanity The world then would be a heaven filled with love, and liberty and joy

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Christian, Art, Taken

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• My objection to the church isn't that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too - think of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder. An it isn't so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires - though a lot of churches are that, too. My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Girl, Teaching, School

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• He who assists the wicked will in time rue it.

  Periander

  Rue

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• He who trusts himself for safety to the care of a wicked man, in seeking succor meets with ruin.

  Periander

  Men, Safety, Care

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• The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.

  Tacitus

  Purpose, Easier

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• Better is the little of the righteous than the abundance of many wicked.

  David

  Littles, Abundance, Righteous

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• Speeches by businessmen on social responsibility...may gain them kudos in the short run. But it helps to strengthen the already too prevalent view that the pursuit of profits is wicked.... There is one and only one social responsibility of business-to...engage in open and free competition without deception or fraud.

  Milton Friedman

  Running, Responsibility, Views

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• Fiction is the great repository of the moral sense. The wicked get punished.

  Anita Brookner

  Fiction, Moral

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• Many a lash in the dark doth con science give the wicked.

  Thomas Boston

  Dark, Giving, Lashes

  Thomas Boston (1830). “Human Nature in Its Fourfold State: Of Primitive Integrity, Entire Depravation, Begun Recovery, and Consummate Happiness Or Misery, in the Parents of Mankind in Paradise, the Unregenerate, the Regenerate, All Mankind in the Future State, in Several Practical Discourses”, p.373

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• Politicians aren't any more wicked than other citizens but the situation in which they are placed warps their judgment.

  Helen Gahagan Douglas

  Citizens, Judgment, Politician

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• I have read of a glass kept in an idol temple in Smyrna that would make beautiful things appear deformed, and deformed things appear beautiful; carnal sense is such a glass to wicked men, it makes heavenly things which are beautiful to appear deformed, and earthly things which are deformed to appear beautiful.

  Ralph Venning

  Beautiful, Men, Glasses

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• Nature does not conquer the world to God. It never has. It never will. In America, with its vast abounding wealth, its grand expanse of prairie, its reach of river, and its exuberant productiveness, there is danger that our riches will draw us away from God, and fasten us to earth; that they will make us not only rich, but mean; not only wealthy, but wicked. The grand corrective is the cross of Christ, seen in the sanctuary where the life and light of God are exhibited, and where the reverberation of the echoes from the great white throne are heard.

  Richard Salter Storrs

  Mean, Rivers, White

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 522), 1895.

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• The wicked will run to the iron bridge, but it will collapse under their weight. The righteous will cross the paper bridge, and it will support them all. Paper is the only eternal bridge. Your purpose as a writer is to achieve one task, and one task only: to build a paper bridge to the world to come.

  Dara Horn

  Running, Bridges, Iron

  Dara Horn (2006). “The World to Come: A Novel”, p.84, W. W. Norton & Company

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• One of the most wicked destructive forces, psychologically speaking, is unused creative power ... If someone has a creative gift and out of laziness, or for some other reason, doesn't use it, the psychic energy turns to sheer poison. That's why we often diagnose neuroses and psychotic diseases as not-lived higher possibilities.

  Marie-Louise von Franz

  Creativity, Power, Psychics

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• Doubtless the world is wicked enough; but it will not be improved by the extension of a spirit which self-righteously sees more to reform outside of itself than in itself.

  J. G. Holland

  Self, World, Reform

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• I turned from my wicked ways and embraced Jesus. The next thing I knew, good times had come my way.

  Phil Robertson

  Jesus, Next, Way

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• A companion is but another self; wherefore it is an argument that a man is wicked if he keep company with the wicked.

  Pope Clement I

  Men, Self, Companion

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• Sorrow in the tongue will talk itself cured, if you give it a chance; but sorrow in the eyes has a wicked, wicked way now and then of leaking into the brain.

  Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

  Eye, Giving, Brain

  Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (2012). “The Sick-a-Bed Lady: And Other Tales”, p.142, The Floating Press

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