Wicked Quote by Joseph de Maistre Download Open image “Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.” — Joseph de Maistre ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Wicked
Regard as free not those whose status makes them outwardly free, but those who are free in their character and conduct. For we should… — Anthony the Great Copy Share Image
Man is certainly free, but he is responsible for this freedom before God as before men. This responsibility is inevitably moral. In order of… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them. — Berthold Auerbach Copy Share Image
The will of man without the grace of God is not free at all, but is the permanent prisoner and bondslave of evil since… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
If for harming himself a man forfeits his freedom, then he is not free at all. — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
No man on earth is truly free, All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against… — Euripides Copy Share Image
War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences of a supernatural nature… — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
Nothing is necessary except God, and nothing is less necessary than pain. — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
It is not the mediocrity of women's education which makes their weakness; it is their weakness which necessarily causes their mediocrity. — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without enslaving us. The most wonderful aspect… — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice. — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. He directs… — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not.… — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
“Thus is worked out, from maggots up to man, the universal law of the violent destruction of living beings. The whole earth, continually steeped… — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil. — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen… — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
The concept of number is the obvious distinction between the beast and man. Thanks to number, the cry becomes a song, noise acquires rhythm,… — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
A wicked man in prayer may lift up his hands, but he cannot lift up his face. — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
...it isn't foolish or wicked to enjoy. Wickedness is hurting people on purpose. I love what you are and who you are and how… — John D. MacDonald Copy Share Image
As an actor, it was great to work with Harry Lloyd because he's wicked smart, and he is very kind. — Betty Gabriel Copy Share Image
IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I knew that I had turned my world back to cinders, sunk my lovely ship with my own stupid, wicked hands. — Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
the greater part of the suffering in the world is caused not by wicked intents and hard hearts, but by the careless desire to… — Marah Ellis Ryan Copy Share Image
“You're wicked through and through." He leaned into her, his nostrils picking up her musky scent. "Tell me the truth. You love it when… — Monica Burns Copy Share Image
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
