Wickedness Quotes - Page 6

• Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.

  Lucretius

  Men, Literature, Height

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• The colossal might of wickedness: how we love to locate it massively elsewhere. But so much of it comes down to what each one of us does between breakfast and bedtime.

  Gregory Maguire

  Doe, Breakfast, Might

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• Are people born wicked, or is wickedness trust upon them?

  Stephen Schwartz

  People, Wicked, Born

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• One definition of the wicked is that they will resort to whatever means are necessary to achieve their ends. Therefore, if those who oppose wickedness don't learn the art of war, they will be helpless.

  George Friedman

  Art, War, Mean

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• We often do shallow good in order to accomplish evil with impunity.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Order, Evil, Shallow

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• It must now atone in blood for its complicity in wickedness.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Blood, History

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• Let it stand, therefore, as an indubitable truth, which no engines can shake, that the mind of man is so entirely alienated from the righteousness of God that he cannot conceive, desire, or design any thing but what is wicked, distorted, foul, impure, and iniquitous; that his heart is so thoroughly envenomed by sin that it can breathe out nothing but corruption and rottenness; that if some men occasionally make a show of goodness, their mind is ever interwoven with hypocrisy and deceit, their soul inwardly bound with the fetters of wickedness.

  John Calvin

  Heart, Men, Hypocrisy

  John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.299, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Every evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Evil, Benefactors

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.36, 谷月社

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• The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness.

  Gregory Maguire

  Men, Stupidity, Blindness

  Gregory Maguire (2013). “The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz”, p.172, Harper Collins

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• Weakness is oftentimes so palpable as to be equivalent to wickedness.

  George Sand

  Weakness

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• The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.

  Adolf Hitler

  Aquariums, Evil, Essentials

  Adolf Hitler, Ludwig Lore (1939). “Mein Kampf”, New York : Stackpole

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• For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.

  Martin Luther

  Evil, Church, Chapel

  Colloquia Mensalia ch. 2 (1566) (translation by Henry Bell)

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• There are heroes of wickedness, as there are of goodness.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Hero, Goodness, Badness

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• The ignorance of the world leaves one at the mercy of its malice.

  William Hazlitt

  Ignorance, Evil, World

  William Hazlitt (1845). “Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.128

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• Insanity has excuses; wickedness has not.

  Ariana Franklin

  Evil, Insanity, Excuse

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• Satirize wickedness if you must--but pity weakness.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Weakness, Pity, Ifs

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2015). “Emily Climbs”, p.21, Booklassic

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• The wickedness of a loose or profane author is more atrocious than that of a giddy libertine or drunken ravisher, not only because it extends its effects wider, as a pestilence that taints the air is more destructive than poison infused in a draught, but because it is committed with cool deliberation.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Air, Poison

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.123

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• A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world. That means trying to understand, take in, connect with, what wickedness human beings are capable of; and not be corrupted - made cynical, superficial - by this understanding.

  Susan Sontag

  Mean, Thinking, Cynical

  Susan Sontag, Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels (2003). “Susan Sontag: Ansprachen aus Anlass der Verleihung”

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• . . . It is God's plan that those who are to help others spiritually fall into the temptations of mind and body by which others can be tormented. . . . Scorn both these evil suggestions and the wickedness of their author, who is the devil.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Fall, Helping Others

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• Wickedness may prosper for awhile, but in the long run, he that sets all the knaves at work will pay them.

  Roger L'Estrange

  Running, Work, Long

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• WITCH, n. (1) Any ugly and repulsive old woman, in a wicked league with the devil. (2) A beautiful and attractive young woman, in wickedness a league beyond the devil.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Beautiful, Women, League

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.327, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.

  Seneca the Younger

  Punishment, Deeds, Prison

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• It is not difficult to avoid death. It is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.

  Socrates

  Death, Running, Virtue

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• Scorn both these evil suggestions and the wickedness of their author, who is the devil. Be very cheerful and humble yourself as much as you can. Ordinarily, God allows these things to happen to free us from some hidden pride and to engender in us holy humility.

  Vincent de Paul

  Humility, Pride, Evil

  "Correspondence Conference Documents".

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• We ask for what reason our Lord was unwilling to state the time of His coming (cf. Mk. 13:31-32). If we ask it, we shall not find it is owing to ignorance, but to wisdom. For it was not to our advantage to know; in order that we being ignorant of the actual moments of judgment to come, might ever be as it were on guard, and set on the watch-tower of virtue, and so avoid the habits of sin; lest the day of the Lord should come upon us in the midst of our wickedness.

  Ambrose

  Christian, Ignorance, Order

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