Cause I's wicked, - I is. I's mighty wicked, anyhow, I can't help it. — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Almost all the moral good which is left among us is the apparent effect of physical evil. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life. — Benjamin Franklin 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
“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
Religion is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act. — Marcus Tullius Cicero 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
How great, therefore, the wickedness of human nature is! How many girls there are who prevent conception and kill and expel tender… — Martin Luther 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
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 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
“The Philosopher, too, says of the wicked (Ethic. ix, 4) that "their soul is divided against itself . . . one part… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“Nobody scarce doth any good, yet they all agree in praising those who do. Indeed, it is strange that all men should… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Conflict, not progress, is the word that defines man's path from darkness into light. No holiness is won by any other means… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
According to this way of arguing, there will be no true principles in the world; for there are none but what may… — Jonathan Mayhew 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
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
[Judaism is] ever... mighty in wickedness... when it cursed Moses; when it hated God; when it vowed its sons to demons; when… — Hilary of Poitiers Copy Share Image
God indeed tempteth no man; but yet we ask, in this petition, that he would keep and preserve us, lest the devil,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly… — Henry James 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
Listen to these wounds of pain put in the form of questions to me by a young woman who had had two… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“The law of God is not to return evil for evil; indeed, if you try in this way to stamp out wickedness… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
We find the vast majority of people in every country believing that there will be a time when this world will become… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“If they could not prove adultery or extreme cruelty, Nina's attorneys had an alternate strategy available. Rhode Island was unique in allowing… — Jean Elson 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 in us holy humility.” quote by Vincent de Paul](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e07/vincent-de-paul-1676_evil_ordinarily-god-allows-these-things-i-e-e_2440109.png)
![“[Judaism is] ever... mighty in wickedness... when it cursed Moses; when it hated God; when it vowed its sons to demons; when it killed the prophets, and finally when it betrayed to the Praetor and crucified our God Himself and Lord... And so glorying through all its existence in iniquity.” quote by Hilary of Poitiers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1f1/hilary-of-poitiers-36609_betrayed_judaism-is-ever-mighty-in-wickedness-whe_683709.png)
![“If they could not prove adultery or extreme cruelty, Nina's attorneys had an alternate strategy available. Rhode Island was unique in allowing divorce based upon other, more ambiguous grounds, as well...[as] an omnibus clause in the state's legal code authorized divorce based upon..."gross…” quote by Jean Elson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/72e/jean-elson-62560_adultery_if-they-could-not-prove-adultery-or-extr_1649382.jpg)
