“The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.” — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“The wickedness of the world is so great, you have to keep running so your legs won't be stolen from under you!” — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
“When a hypocrite or a wicked leader is in power, anyone that becomes popular or stands out easily becomes a prey.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
...It would be more consistent that we call [the Bible] the work of a demon than the word of God. It is… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
If weakness may excuse, What murderer, what traitor, parricide, Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it? All wickedness is weakness; that plea, therefore,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
[About Eichmann:] It was as though in those last minutes he was summing up the lesson that this long course in human… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The colossal might of wickedness: how we love to locate it massively elsewhere. But so much of it comes down to what… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Ordinarily, God allows these things [i.e. evil suggestions and wickedness] to happen to free us from some hidden pride and to engender… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
The small man thinks that small acts of goodness are of no benefit, and does not do them; and that small deeds… — Confucius 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
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 whole life of Demosthenes... leaves the impression of a melancholy state of things, and of the brazen insolence of wickedness. A… — Jacob Burckhardt 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
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
Le Chiffre was serving a wonderful purpose, a really vital purpose, perhaps the best and highest purpose of all. By his evil… — Ian Fleming 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
“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
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
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
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
We're living in an unprecedented day (when) evil is no longer evil. We've changed the terminology-- iniquity is now infirmity; wickedness is… — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
The holy man, though he be distressed, does not eat food mixed with wickedness. The lion, though hungry, will not eat what… — Sakya Pandita Copy Share Image
“If we believe that god is the creator of evil, maybe there is evil also in heaven, if that is the case,… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
How ridiculous not to flee from one's own wickedness, which is possible, yet endeavor to flee from another's which is not. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Evil can be condoned only if in the beyond it is compensated by good and god himself needs immortality to vindicate his… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
God sees with utter clarity who we are. He is undeceived as to our warts and wickedness. But when God looks at… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
“A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Doubtless the world is wicked enough; but it will not be improved by the extension of a spirit which self-righteously sees more… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Society is produced by our wants, and government by wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose; and the consequences are nearly always the same. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
There is this of good in real evils; they deliver us, while they last, from the petty despotism of all that were… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Even as the holy and the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each one of you, so the wicked… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
It is an esoteric doctrine of society, that a little wickedness is good to make muscle; as if conscience were not good… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
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
I am sorry to say we whites have a sad reputation among many of the Polynesians. The natives of these islands are… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
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![“[About Eichmann:] It was as though in those last minutes he was summing up the lesson that this long course in human wickedness had taught us - the lesson of the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil.” quote by Hannah Arendt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/943/hannah-arendt-610_banality_about-eichmann-it-was-as-though-in-those_3183054.jpg)
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