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Wickedness Quotes by Thomas Paine
- ...It would be more consistent that we call [the Bible] the work of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of…
- Religion is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it as I detest…
- The Bible: a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind.
- Society is produced by our wants, and government by wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining…
- Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the Bible is…
- Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness.
- The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing…
More Wickedness Quotes
- No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye. — Aristotle
- There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees. — Francis Beaumont
- One of the trials of life is that we do not usually receive immediately the full blessing for righteousness or the full… — Ezra Taft Benson
- Wickedness never did, never does, never will bring us happiness. — Ezra Taft Benson
- May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house. — George Carlin
- God bears with the wicked, but not forever. — Miguel de Cervantes
- Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own… — John Jay Chapman
- The human qualities of the raw materials show through. Naivety, error, contradiction, even (as in the cursing Psalms) wickedness are not removed.… — C.S. Lewis
- Twenty-year-olds have a kind of emotional idealism about relationships and about the world that enables them to say, 'No, you lied to… — Lorrie Moore
- While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the… — Abraham Lincoln
- How ridiculous not to flee from one's own wickedness, which is possible, yet endeavor to flee from another's which is not. — Marcus Aurelius
- The architects of this wickedness will find no safe harbor in this world. We will chase our enemies to the furthest corners… — Tom DeLay