The Devil would be the best way out as an excuse for God; in that way he would be playing the same… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I worry sometimes that I'm a bit moralistic; always writing about men who are learning to grow up, not be so self-absorbed,… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
One definition of the wicked is that they will resort to whatever means are necessary to achieve their ends. Therefore, if those… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or… — T. S. Eliot 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
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
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
“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
There are souls which, crab-like, crawl continually toward darkness, going back in life rather than advancing in it, using what experience they… — Victor Hugo 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
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
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
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 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
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
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
If you are a guillotine producer, watch out your head; because wickedness is a boomerang. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop; the gut expanded to take in more and more. — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Disguise, I see thou art a wickedness,/ Wherein the...enemy does much.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“money,if it does not bring you happiness,it will atleast help you be miserable in comfort” — Helen Gurley Brown Copy Share Image
In this crucible of wickedness the true greatness of Mormon shines like a star. — Hugh Nibley Copy Share Image
“The Lord will judge those who slander and harm the righteous, for He defends the cause of the oppressed.” — Shaila Touchton Copy Share Image
Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The twin conceptions of sin and vindictive punishment seem to be at the root of much that is most vigorous, both in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to fatten our greedy bodies by cramming in other bodies, to have… — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
Let us be honest: most of us rather like our cats to have a streak of wickedness. I should not feel quite… — Beverley Nichols Copy Share Image
We know that it is possible to harness desire to many interests, that evil is one form of a desire, and not… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image