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
A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith; spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism; and… — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
Enter with me into the sufferings, not only of the people of India but of the whole world. Nonviolence is a more… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“I have spoken to you before of the nature of human wickedness, my friend. How it is the small lies and evasions… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
The human qualities of the raw materials show through. Naivety, error, contradiction, even (as in the cursing Psalms) wickedness are not removed.… — C. S. Lewis 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
Every time you have with your mouth said well of godliness, and yet gone on in wickedness; or every time you have… — John Bunyan 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
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
Delight in smooth sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts ... genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“One day the wickedness of the kings of the world would destroy us, oh sorrow, and armies of the world would march… — Chuck Palahniuk 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… — St. Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
There is one fairly good reason for fighting - and that is, if the other man starts it. You see, wars are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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
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
The Deluge: A punishment inflicted on the human race by an all-knowing God, who, through not having foreseen the wickedness of men,… — Voltaire 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
I have a hundred times heard him say, that all ages and nations have represented their gods as wicked, in a constantly… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover, and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
There can be - there ought to be - no medium course; a love-affair is either sober earnest or contemptible folly, if… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
“When her husband recovered, it was to shout abusively at her…. Later, when she reflected on it throughout the tedious courtroom proceedings,… — Jean Elson 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
After a sound drubbing followed by half a day's fasting, I felt more like laughing than like crying; and, in half a… — Stijn Streuvels Copy Share Image
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
The only real argument against the Bible is an unholy life. When a man argues against the Word of God, follow him… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul producing holy witness Is like a villain with a smiling cheek,… — William Shakespeare 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
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
True to form, many of the people who desire to frustrate God's purposes of giving mortal tabernacles to His spirit children through… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
The disappointed man turns his thoughts toward a state of existence where his wiser desires may be fixed with the certainty of… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
When they throw the water on the witch, she says, “Who would have thought a good little girl like you could destroy… — John Waters Copy Share Image
“A very ridiculous thing it is, that any man should dispense with vice and wickedness in himself, which is in his power… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Pop music can somehow survive being inhibited and mangled by its harsh and stupid commercial chains, and there is surely irreducible potential… — Paul Morley 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
What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? He who does not play at… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
Persistently leavening public opinion, in a grossly superstitious age, with the theological doctrine of popular preachers, that woman is a sex of… — Ellen Battelle Dietrick Copy Share Image
“… the vices and wickedness of the Secular Era, some of which still lingered, he said, in the cities of the East… — Robert Charles Wilson 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
