Wickedness Quotes

256 Wickedness quotes by 197 unique authors

What has this unfeeling age of ours left untried, what wickedness has it shunned? — Horace
It is an esoteric doctrine of society, that a little wickedness is good to make muscle; as if conscience were not good for hands and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Few men are wantonly wicked. — Mahatma Gandhi
One may detest the wickedness of a brother without hating him. — Mahatma Gandhi
Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman. — Seneca the Younger
Do good even to the wicked; it is as well to shut a dog's mouth with a crumb. — Saadi
All through my boyhood I had a profound conviction that I was no good, that I was wasting my time, wrecking my talents, behaving with… — George Orwell
The unrighteous are never really fortunate. — Euripides
Few occasions are as joyous to small children as funerals, almost better than the big wedding blowouts that take place at night when it's hard… — Arthur Miller
One's worst enormities remain within, and it is only one's vulgar commonplaces of error and folly that turn into murders and suicides, treasons, infidelities, and… — Lewis Mumford
A wicked mortal is not the idea of God. He is little else than the expression of error. To suppose that sin, lust, hatred, envy,… — Mary Baker Eddy
To philosopher and historian the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events. — David Hume
Lend your light to the blind. Why should the wickedness of men irritate you, when it is only blindness? — Eugenio Maria de Hostos
The Bible: a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind. — Thomas Paine
I was a devil of a scapegrace in my time.... Father racked his head for days together to find a punishment that I should remember;… — Stijn Streuvels
Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody's fine feelings may be offended. — William Makepeace Thackeray
We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness, which we, from time to time, most grievously have committed, by thought, word and deed. — Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
Those who submit to the Lord with simple heart will run the good race. If they keep their minds on a leash, they will not… — John Climacus
The wickedness of the few makes the calamity of the many. — Publilius Syrus
It is no sin to be tempted; the wickedness lies in being overcome. — Honore de Balzac
Two starving men cannot be twice as hungry as one; but two rascals can be ten times as vicious as one. — William Shakespeare
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… — Eric Hoffer
Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood wears, Slaves would… — Victor Hugo
We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by interest,… — Samuel Johnson
We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves. — John Dryden

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