However wickedness outstrips men, it has no wings to fly from God. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Believe me; all evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them. — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
The wicked are always surprised to find that the good can be clever. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Make people happy and there will not be half the quarreling, or a tenth part of the wickedness there now is. — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
“We must always remember that apart from Him, we are fountains of wickedness. And that if we leave His embrace our face… — Eric Gimour Copy Share Image
“The smug mask of virtue triumphant could be almost as horrible as the face of wickedness revealed.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“The belief in a super natural sources of evil is not necessary. Men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
To expect wickedness from human beings is the best way I know of to avoid surprises. And when I am surprised, it's… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Truly it is reasonable to make a great distinction between the faults that come from our weakness and those that come from… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in spirit and energy it awakens. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
...it isn't foolish or wicked to enjoy. Wickedness is hurting people on purpose. I love what you are and who you are… — John D. MacDonald Copy Share Image
“If the Divine call does not make us better, it will make us very much worse. Of all bad men religious bad… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature. Yet how can anyone… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
If a person seems wicked, do not cast him away. Awaken him with your words, elevate him with your deeds, repay his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
They said there was no rest for the wicked. In fact, there was rest neither for the virtuous nor the wicked, nor… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Twenty-year-olds have a kind of emotional idealism about relationships and about the world that enables them to say, 'No, you lied to… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
He who abhors and shuns the light of the Sun,He who refuses to behold with respect the living creation of God,He who… — Zoroaster Copy Share Image
It is possible that these may all be insufficient to control the caprice and wickedness of man. But are they not all… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“When Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning-rod, the clergy, both in England and America, with the enthusiastic support of George III, condemned it… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The animals share with us the privilege of having a soul Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to… — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
“And then shall the wicked one be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus shall slay with the spirit of His mouth, and destroy… — The Church Fathers Copy Share Image
There are multitudes of pure and holy spirits waiting to take tabernacles, now what is our duty. To prepare tabernacles for them;… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
I have never seen one who really loves goodness or one who really hates wickedness. One who really loves goodness will not… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Listen to these words of [apostle] Paul: "We war not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers, and the rulers… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
To be born in imbecility, in the midst of pain and crisis; to be the plaything of ignorance, error, need, sickness, wickedness,… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
One cannot avoid a certain feeling of disgust, when one observes the actions of man displayed on the great stage of the… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
It is privilege that causes evil in the world, not wickedness, and not men. — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
“The weakest ones are the wickedest cruel When the strongest ones in gentleness rule!” — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
Forever all goodness will be most charming; forever all wickedness will be most odious. — Thomas Sprat Copy Share Image
Do not be deceived; happiness and enjoyment do not lie in wicked ways. — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
“It is only your capacity for wickedness that makes selflessness possible.” — Danielle Paige, Dorothy Must Die Copy Share Image