Forever all goodness will be most charming; forever all wickedness will be most odious. — Thomas Sprat Copy Share Image
We often do shallow good in order to accomplish evil with impunity. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“The weakest ones are the wickedest cruel When the strongest ones in gentleness rule!” — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
However wickedness outstrips men, it has no wings to fly from God. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We are not guilty because we are depraved; we are depraved because we are guilty — Gordon Clark Copy Share Image
As our culture has become increasingly hostile to Christianity, it has become correspondingly open to wickedness. — Rick Scarborough 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
There is no man suddenly either excellently good or extremely evil, but grows either as he holds himself up in virtue or… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop; the gut expanded to take in more and more. — John Updike Copy Share Image
“These two she would have liked to keep for ever just as they were, demons of wickedness, angels of delight, never to… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power — John Adams Copy Share Image
Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
There are always two people involved in cruelty, aren't there? One to be vicious and someone to suffer! And what's the use… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
Fishing is the chance to wash one's soul with pure air. It brings meekness and inspiration, reduces our egoism, soothes our troubles… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Any satirist writing a futuristic novel who had imagined a President Reagan during the Eisenhower years would have been accused of perpetrating… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
For mortal men there is but one hell, and that is the folly and wickedness and spite of his fellows; but once… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
“Then Anu and Bel called by name me, Hammurabi, the exalted prince, who feared God, to bring about the rule of righteousness… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Personally, I see little distinction between an artistic mentality and criminality. You couldn't possibly create a compelling story without some wickedness or… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
The core of original sin, then is LOT - Lack of Trust. Or, it could be considered an innate inability to adequately… — Robert H. Schuller 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
“Among wise men there is no place at all left for hatred. For no one except the greatest of fools would hate… — Boethius Copy Share Image
He that is once "born of God shall overcome the world," and the prince of this world too, by the power of… — Ralph Cudworth Copy Share Image
I am sorry to say we whites have a sad reputation among many of the Polynesians. The natives of these islands are… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
But as the old Confusion of tongues was laudable, when men who were of one language in wickedness and impiety, even as… — Gregory of Nazianzus 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
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
“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
It is no sin to be tempted; the wickedness lies in being overcome. — Honore de Balzac 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
Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil. — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
It takes physical courage to indulge in wickedness. The "good" are too cowardly to do it. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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