Wickedness Quotes

256 Wickedness quotes by 197 unique authors

Wickedness is weakness. — John Milton
If weakness may excuse, What murderer, what traitor, parricide, Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it? All wickedness is weakness; that plea, therefore, With God or… — John Milton
God has sometimes converted wickedness into madness; and it is to the credit of human reason that men who are not in some degree mad… — Edmund Burke
Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation. — Plutarch
Wickedness may prosper for a while. — Roger L'Estrange
Peace and wickedness are far asunder. — Benjamin Stillingfleet
Do not be deceived; happiness and enjoyment do not lie in wicked ways. — Isaac Watts
Weakness is oftentimes so palpable as to be equivalent to wickedness. — George Sand
There is no man suddenly either excellently good or extremely evil, but grows either as he holds himself up in virtue or lets himself slide… — Philip Sidney
In such a world as this, with such hearts as ours, weakness is wickedness in the long run. Whoever lets himself be shaped and guided… — Alexander MacLaren
Wickedness is a kind of voluntary frenzy, and a chosen distraction. — John Tillotson
Was ever any wicked man free from the stings of a guilty conscience? — John Tillotson
The holy man, though he be distressed, does not eat food mixed with wickedness. The lion, though hungry, will not eat what is unclean. — Sakya Pandita
Oh, how cowardly is wickedness always! — Statius
The animals share with us the privilege of having a soul Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to fatten our greedy… — Pythagoras
A good Soul hath neither too great joy, nor too great sorrow: for it rejoiceth in goodness; and it sorroweth in wickedness. By the means… — Pythagoras
Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to fatten our greedy bodies by cramming in other bodies, to have one living creature… — Pythagoras
The greatest historian should also be a great moralist. It is no proof of impartiality to treat wickedness and goodness on the same level. — Theodore Roosevelt
What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? He who does not play at dice, but spends… — Saint Basil
Cause I's wicked, - I is. I's mighty wicked, anyhow, I can't help it. — Harriet Beecher Stowe
The small man thinks that small acts of goodness are of no benefit, and does not do them; and that small deeds of evil do… — Confucius
Altruism is the root of all Wickedness — Andrew Ryan
We never deceive people to benefit them, for knavery is a compound of wickedness and falsehood. — Jean de la Bruyere
Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is… — Stephen Fry
To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness. — Confucius

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