Wickedness Quotes

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

  Thomas Paine

  4th Of July, Government, Evil

  Thomas Paine (2015). “Common Sense: and The American Crisis I”, p.15, Penguin

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

  Joseph Conrad

  Inspirational, Men, Evil People

  Under Western Eyes pt. 2, ch. 4 (1911)

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

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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• Tolerating evil leads only to more evil. And when good people stand by and do nothing while wickedness reigns, their communities will be consumed.

  Bob Riley

  People, Evil, Community

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• 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.

  Carl Jung

  Heart, Evil, Facts

  Carl Gustav Jung (1964). “Civilization in transition”

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

  Oscar Wilde

  People, Evil, Luck

  "Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young" (1894)

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• The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.

  Hesiod

  Men, Evil People, Doe

  Works and Days l. 265

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• He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Acceptance, Evil, Historical

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

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

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Wicked, Weakness, World

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• Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.

  Sophocles

  Foolishness

  Sophocles, Hugh Lloyd-Jones (1994). “Sophocles: Fragments”, Loeb Classical Library

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• The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.

  Sophocles

  Nurse, Evil, Soul

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• Wickedness may prosper for a while.

  Roger L'Estrange

  May

  Aesop, Sir Roger L'Estrange (1708). “Fables of Aesop ... By Sir Roger L'Estrange ... The Fifth Edition Corrected”, p.324

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• God bears with the wicked, but not forever.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  God, Life And Love, Forever

  Miguel de Cervantes (2015). “Don Quixote (StoneHenge Classics): The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha”, p.618, StoneHenge Classics

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

  Publilius Syrus

  Calamity

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• There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.

  Francis Beaumont

  Growing Up, Men, Degrees

  Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, Henry William Weber (1812). “The works of Beaumont and Fletcher: in fourteen volumes: with an introduction and explanatory notes”

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• How well u treat the wicked people, they do nto give up their wickedness. They derive pleasure in hurting others. A serpent made to drink milk, it ejects poison only.

  Chanakya

  Hurt, Giving Up, Drink Milk

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• Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation.

  Plutarch

  Misery, Shame, Architect

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• Wickedness is its own punishment.

  Francis Quarles

  Punishment

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.47

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• Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.

  Samuel Johnson

  Cutting, Evil, Virtue

  Dr. Samuel Johnson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Johnson (Illustrated)”, p.7965, Delphi Classics

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• It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven

  Josh Billings

  Clever, Hard Work, Heaven

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• Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.

  Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

  Sadness, Doubt, Despair

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• Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.

  John Jay Chapman

  Thinking, Victim, Goodness

  John Jay Chapman (1900). “Practical Agitation”

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• The disappointed man turns his thoughts toward a state of existence where his wiser desires may be fixed with the certainty of faith; the successful man feels that the objects which he has ardently pursued fail to satisfy the cravings of an immortal spirit; the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness, that he may save his soul alive.

  Robert Southey

  Successful, Men, Soul

  Robert Southey (1832). “On Sir Francis Burdett's motion for parliamentary reform.-On the conduct of the war.-On the cry of the Whigs for peace, 1810.-Army and navy reforms, 1810.-On the economical reformers, 1811.-On the state of the poor.-The principle of Mr. Malthus's essay on population.-The manufacturing system, 1812.-On the state of the poor.-On the accounts of England by foreign travellers and the state of public opinion, 1816.-On the state of public opinion and the political reformers, 1816.-v.2 A letter to Will”, p.235

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• 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.

  Origen

  Teaching, Church, World

  Origen (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Origen (Annotated Edition)”, p.56, Jazzybee Verlag

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

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Stupid, Silly, Doctors

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2007). “Parerga and Paralipomena: A Collection of Philosophical Essays”, Cosimo, Inc.

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