I trust in due time to lay the perfidy, meanness, and wickedness of [Henry] Clay naked before the American people. I have… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
Mental stains can not be removed by time, nor washed away by any waters. [Lat., Animi labes nec diuturnitate vanescere nec omnibus… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The weak are not a noble breed. Their sublime deeds of faith, daring, and self-sacrifice usually spring from questionable motives. The weak… — Eric Hoffer 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
There did not have to be a moral. She need only show separate minds, as alive as her own, struggling with the… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
If you are a guillotine producer, watch out your head; because wickedness is a boomerang. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The writer cultivates, extends, raises and inflates his imagination, sure that this is his destiny, his usefulness, his contribution to the understanding… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Jews are responsible for the majority of the wickedness in the world. — Professor Griff Copy Share Image
Before crime is committed conscience must be corrupted, and every bad man who succeeds in reaching a high point of wickedness begins… — Henri Frederic Amiel 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
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
And I believe that I will never be able to hate any human being for his so-called 'wickedness,' that I shall only… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
It is possible that the meaning of wisdom in Hebrew indicates aptitude for stratagems and the application of thought in such a… — Maimonides 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
[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
I'n'I nah come to fight flesh and blood, But spiritual wickedness in 'igh and low places. So while they fight you down,… — Bob Marley 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
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
Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half… — Thomas Paine 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
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