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Wickedness Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- The weak are not a noble breed. Their sublime deeds of faith, daring, and self-sacrifice usually spring from questionable motives. The weak hate not wickedness…
- Power corrupts the few, whileweakness corrupts the many.... The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the…
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- For in prosperity a man is often puffed up with pride, whereas tribulations chasten and humble him through suffering and sorrow. In… — Alfred the Great
- There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees. — Francis Beaumont
- As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done… — Oscar Wilde
- This also is a part of the Church's teaching, that the world was made and took its beginning at a certain time,… — Origen
- Pride, if not the origin, is the medium of all wickedness-the atmosphere without which it would instantly die away. — Arthur Helps
- It is possible that these may all be insufficient to control the caprice and wickedness of man. But are they not all… — James Madison
- The wicked are always surprised to find that the good can be clever. — Luc de Clapiers
- Although among heretics and schismatics there is the same Baptism, nevertheless, the remission of sins is not operative among them because of… — Saint Augustine