After a sound drubbing followed by half a day's fasting, I felt more like laughing than like crying; and, in half a… — Stijn Streuvels Copy Share Image
We are not to reflect on the wickedness of men but to look to the image of God in them, an image… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The question of good and evil remains in irremediable chaos for those who seek to fathom it in reality. It is mere… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
We are now to rank among the nations of the world; but whether our Independence shall prove a blessing or a curse… — George Mason Copy Share Image
I became evil for no reason. I had no motive for my wickedness except wickedness itself. It was foul, and I loved… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
God has sometimes converted wickedness into madness; and it is to the credit of human reason that men who are not in… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
And I have again observed, my dear friend, in this trifling affair, that misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life is as if you were traveling a ridge crest. You have the gulf of inefficiency on one side and the gulf… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Maybe I was a fool to turn my back on him after his warnings, but the bad guys didn't warn you first.… — Heather Topham Wood Copy Share Image
We desperately need to understand something of the magnitude of sin, of evil, and of gross wickedness in this world if we… — Dave Hunt Copy Share Image
To be energetic and firm where principle demands it, and tolerant in all else, is not easy. It is not easy to… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
“Envy: Instead of focusing on your own goals, your goal becomes throwing off the rails other people’s goals and at the end… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“Raped at age nine by a relative and pregnant at 14 Oprah Winfrey, like many others have experienced the wickedness and brutality… — Oche Otorkpa Copy Share Image
I have long held firm to my suspicion that some people are just evil. In some cases I'll concede it seems as… — Jeremy Kyle Copy Share Image
Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
It wasn't only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding; above all, it was the failure to… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Organized religion is in substance a mystification, a means of hiding the wickedness of the social system. If the Christian principles of… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“the spirit of wickedness in high places is now so powerful and many-headed in its incarnations that there seems nothing more to… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“It was as though in those last minutes he was summing up the lessons that this long course in human wickedness had… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Fashionable women regard themselves, and are regarded by men, as pretty toys or as mere instruments of pleasure; and the vacuity of… — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
“Ridicule is one of the favorite weapons of wickedness, and it is sometimes incomprehensible how good and brave boys will be influenced… — Theodore Roosevelt ridicule bullying Copy Share Image
In the commission of evil, fear no man so much as thyself; another is but one witness against thee, thou art a… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
The great masquerade of evil has played havoc with all our ethical concepts. For evil to appear disguised as light, charity, historical… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The devil was a great loss in the preternatural world. He was always something to fear and to hate; he supplied the… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Any who pretend to assume to engage in plural marriage in this day, when the one holding the keys has withdrawn the… — Bruce R. McConkie Copy Share Image
It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but the gradual growth of our own wickedness,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Why did people be so wicked and painful to other people who has done nothing wrong to them: for I better be… — Akamnonu Daniel Copy Share Image
The contented and economically comfortable have a very discriminating view of government. Nobody is ever indignant about bailing out failed banks and… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“The wickedness of the world was a part of creation, I knew this, and the Angel of Death had been created on… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Over all life broods Poesy, like the calm blue sky with its motherly, rebuking face. She is the great reformer, and where… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
A wicked mortal is not the idea of God. He is little else than the expression of error. To suppose that sin,… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
“Ecclesiastes says: “Instead of justice there was wickedness, instead of righteousness, there was yet more wickedness…. But God will judge them all,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Real joy and happiness come from living in such a way that our Heavenly Father will be pleased with us. ... One… — W. Eugene Hansen Copy Share Image
The way of the Lord is the way of happiness. ‘Wickedness never was happiness’ [Alma 41:10]. Transgression never was happiness. Sin never… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
If you neglect to instruct children in the way of holiness, will the devil neglect to instruct them in the way of… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
In morals, what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion, what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
. . . It is God's plan that those who are to help others spiritually fall into the temptations of mind and… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
![“The way of the Lord is the way of happiness. ‘Wickedness never was happiness’ [Alma 41:10]. Transgression never was happiness. Sin never was happiness. Disobedience never was happiness. The way of happiness is following the way of the Lord. I believe this with all my heart.” quote by Gordon B. Hinckley](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/8e9/gordon-b-hinckley-331_believe_the-way-of-the-lord-is-the-way-of-happin_193229.jpg)
