Depend on it, that from every condition of distress or evil there is a great reaction, and the greater the evil or… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
Scorn both these evil suggestions and the wickedness of their author, who is the devil. Be very cheerful and humble yourself as… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
The Conspiracy Theory of Society... [is] a typical result of the secularization of a religious superstition. The belief in the Homeric gods… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
It is a man's own dishonesty, his crimes, his wickedness, and boldness, that takes away from him soundness of mind; these are… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
A rake is a composition of all the lowest, most ignoble, degrading, and shameful vices; they all conspire to disgrace his character,… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn't find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away from the highest substance… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Evil springs up, and flowers, and bears no seed, And feeds the green earth with its swift decay, Leaving it richer for… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Few occasions are as joyous to small children as funerals, almost better than the big wedding blowouts that take place at night… — Arthur Miller 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
I know not how to express better, what my sins appear to me to be, than by heaping infinite upon infinite, and… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Marriage is between one man and one woman. It is ordained by God, and anything outside of that is wickedness. — Mark Robinson Copy Share Image
Think'st thou there is no tyranny but that Of blood and chains? The despotism of vice-- The weakness and the wickedness of… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
The wicked are always surprised to find that the good can be clever. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
It's not the wickedness of the pagan that breaks my heart. It's the compromise of the Christian that grieves my soul. — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
“Are those paper clips?' I'd seen them in catalogs, but the pictures don't do them justice. They're beautiful, in an industrial sort… — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything. — Samuel Johnson 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
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
“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
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
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
Do good even to the wicked; it is as well to shut a dog's mouth with a crumb. — Saadi Copy Share Image