Wickedness Quotes - Page 5

• Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will.

  Aristotle

  Parenting, Ill Will, Evil

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• ...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.

  John D. MacDonald

  Hurt, Coffee, People

  John D MacDonald (2013). “Travis McGee: Books 1-3: Introduction by Lee Child”, p.241, Random House

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• Pray to God for gladness. Be glad as children, as the birds of heaven. And let not the sin of men confound you in your doings. Fear not that it will wear away your work and hinder its being accomplished. Do not say, 'Sin is mighty, wickedness is mighty, evil environment is mighty, and we are lonely and helpless, and evil environment is wearing us away and hindering our good work from being done.' Fly from that dejection, children!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Lonely, Children, Men

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• We are now to rank among the nations of the world; but whether our Independence shall prove a blessing or a curse must depend upon our own wisdom or folly, virtue or wickedness.... Justice and virtue are the vital principles of republican government.

  George Mason

  Blessing, Government, Justice

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• Goodness is weakness, pleasantness is poisonous, serenity is mediocrity and kindness is for losers. The best reason for committing loathsome and detestable acts – and let’s face it, I am considered something of an expert in this field – is purely for their own sake. Monetary gain is all very well, but it dilutes the taste of wickedness to a lower level that is obtainable by almost anyone with an overdeveloped sense of avarice. True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good.

  Jasper Fforde

  Kindness, Evil, Serenity

  "The Eyre Affair". Book by Jasper Fforde, July 19, 2001.

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• Almost all the moral good which is left among us is the apparent effect of physical evil.

  Samuel Johnson

  Evil, Moral, Effects

  Samuel Johnson, William Page (1860). “Life and Writings”, p.321

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• Evil men by their own nature cannot ever prosper.

  Euripides

  Men, Evil, Evil Man

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Euripides”

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

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

  Criminals, Weak, Characteristics

  Edgar Rice Burroughs (2015). “The Son of Tarzan: Mystery & Adventure Story”, p.18, 谷月社

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• 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.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hands, Doctrine, Legs

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.335

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• Wickedness frames the engines of her own torment. She is a wonderful artisan of a miserable life.

  Plutarch

  Miserable, Wonderful, Artisans

  Plutarch (1951). “Selected Lives and Essays”

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• ... although many people say it is a terrible onus to be labeled bad as a child, I thought that the opposite must be worse: If you knew early that you had wickedness in you, you could learn to accept it, if not to wrestle against it. But if you believed that you were essentially good, then when you finally found the ocean of evil in yourself, surely it would come as a terrible shock.

  Paula Sharp

  Children, Ocean, Opposites

  Paula Sharp (2001). “I Loved You All: A Novel”, Hyperion

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• One's worst enormities remain within, and it is only one's vulgar commonplaces of error and folly that turn into murders and suicides, treasons, infidelities, and betrayals.

  Lewis Mumford

  Suicide, Betrayal, Errors

  Lewis Mumford (1979). “My works and days: a personal chronicle”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• For in prosperity a man is often puffed up with pride, whereas tribulations chasten and humble him through suffering and sorrow. In the midst of prosperity the mind is elated, and in prosperity a man forgets himself; in hardship he is forced to reflect on himself, even though he be unwilling. In prosperity a man often destroys the good he has done; amidst difficulties he often repairs what he long since did in the way of wickedness.

  Alfred the Great

  Humble, Pride, Men

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• The contented and economically comfortable have a very discriminating view of government. Nobody is ever indignant about bailing out failed banks and failed savings and loans associations... But when taxes must be paid for the lower middle class and poor, the government assumes an aspect of wickedness.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Government, Views, Class

  The Guardian, May 23, 1992.

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• Even as the holy and the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each one of you, so the wicked and the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also.

  Khalil Gibran

  Fall, Evil, Wicked

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.66, Lulu.com

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

  Muhammad

  Evil, Done, Doers

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• I have long held firm to my suspicion that some people are just evil. In some cases I'll concede it seems as though it is thrust upon someone who had little real hope of avoiding it. However tragic that reality, the simple fact remains that it is more important to protect the rest of society for as long as it remains a danger to them.

  Jeremy Kyle

  Real, Simple, Long

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• There are souls which, crab-like, crawl continually toward darkness, going back in life rather than advancing in it, using what experience they have to increase their deformity, growing worse without ceasing, and becoming steeped more and more thoroughly in an intensifying wickedness.

  Victor Hugo

  Soul, Darkness, Growing

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.104, Wordsworth Editions

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• 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.

  Augustus William Hare

  Character, Blood, History

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”

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• No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion; it is an evil government.

  Eric Hoffer

  Kindness, Government, Ill Will

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• Jews are responsible for the majority of the wickedness in the world.

  Professor Griff

  Majority, World, Responsible

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• Do not become angry and furious....
  for those two emotions lead to wickedness, and wickedness leads to the Hellfire.

  Sufyan al-Thawri

  Two, Emotion, Furious

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• When a mean wretch cannot vie with another in virtue, out of his wickedness he begins to slander. The abject envious wretch will slander the virtuous man when absent, but when brought face to face his loquacious tongue becomes dumb.

  Saadi

  Mean, Men, Dumb

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• Before crime is committed conscience must be corrupted, and every bad man who succeeds in reaching a high point of wickedness begins with this.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Men, Succeed, Crime

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• However wickedness outstrips men, it has no wings to fly from God.

  William Shakespeare

  God, Men, Wings

  William Shakespeare, Capel Lofft (1812). “Aphorisms from Shakespeare”, p.365

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