Wickedness famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.
-- A. J. P. Taylor -
I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness.
-- Aldous Huxley -
There seems to be no end to the senseless wickedness done on this little planet in a minor solar system, and we puny mortals appear to be decreasing in importance so far as the universe is concerned.
-- Alec Guinness -
When my children hear godliness out of my mouth and they see wickedness in my life, then I point them to heaven and I lead them to hell.
-- Alistair Begg -
Maybe violent wickedness can be decapitated, but stupidity has too many heads.
-- Andre Glucksmann -
Wickedness comes to its height by degrees. He that dares say of a less sin, Is it not a little one? will ere long say of a greater, Tush, God regards it not!
-- Anne Bradstreet -
Insanity has excuses; wickedness has not.
-- Ariana Franklin -
Pride, if not the origin, is the medium of all wickedness-the atmosphere without which it would instantly die away.
-- Arthur Helps -
Peace and wickedness are far asunder.
-- Benjamin Stillingfleet -
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 -
It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.
-- Carl Jung -
A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith; spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism; and moral relativism, taken outside midfield, leads inexorably both to heresy and to secular wickedness, which are often identical.
-- Conrad Black -
My only wickedness is that I love you; my only goodness, the same.
-- Constance Fenimore Woolson -
So possible is it for us to roll ourselves up in wickedness, till we grow invulnerable by conscience; and that sentinel, once dozed, sleeps fast, not to be awakened while the tide of pleasure continues to flow or till something dark and dreadful brings us to ourselves again.
-- Daniel Defoe -
It is a characteristic of the weak and criminal to attribute to others the misfortunes that are the result of their own wickedness.
-- Edgar Rice Burroughs -
Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! Every fool, from king to policeman, from the flatheaded parson to the visionless dabbler in science, presumes to speak authoritatively of human nature. The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature.
-- Emma Goldman -
God is punishing me for my past wickedness by keeping me alive and in as much pain as he can.
-- Ginger Baker -
The colossal might of wickedness: how we love to locate it massively elsewhere. But so much of it comes down to what each one of us does between breakfast and bedtime.
-- Gregory Maguire -
The world loves a spice of wickedness.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
Christ was either the grandest, guiltiest of impostors, by a marvelous and most subtle refinement of wickedness, or He was God manifest in the flesh.
-- Herrick Johnson -
[Judaism is] ever... mighty in wickedness... when it cursed Moses; when it hated God; when it vowed its sons to demons; when it killed the prophets, and finally when it betrayed to the Praetor and crucified our God Himself and Lord... And so glorying through all its existence in iniquity.
-- Hilary of Poitiers -
Slander is a complication, a comprisal and sum of all wickedness.
-- Isaac Barrow -
We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
-- John Dryden -
Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.
-- John Jay Chapman -
Our wickedness shall not overpower the unspeakable goodness and mercy of God; our dullness shall not overpower God's wisdom, nor our infirmity God's omnipotence.
-- John of Kronstadt -
God sees with utter clarity who we are. He is undeceived as to our warts and wickedness. But when God looks at us that is not all He sees. He also sees who we are intended to be, who we will one day become.
-- John Ortberg -
Present-Day Wickedness, Apostasy and Modern Civilization Cannot Prevent Revival.
-- John R. Rice -
Virtue and vice are not arbitrary things; but there is a natural and eternal reason for goodness and virtue, and against vice and wickedness.
-- John Tillotson -
Wickedness is a kind of voluntary frenzy, and a chosen distraction.
-- John Tillotson -
Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop; the gut expanded to take in more and more.
-- John Updike -
Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me.
-- Jonah -
. . . it seems to me certain that more people are killed out of righteous stupidity than out of wickedness.
-- Karl Popper -
If you had better sense you’d have learned by now that nothing thrives so well as wickedness
-- Kathleen Winsor -
Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.
-- Laurence Sterne -
We're living in an unprecedented day (when) evil is no longer evil. We've changed the terminology-- iniquity is now infirmity; wickedness is now weakness; devilry is now deficiency.
-- Leonard Ravenhill -
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
-- Lucretius -
Satirize wickedness if you must--but pity weakness.
-- Lucy Maud Montgomery -
...the sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by far the hardest to bear.
-- Lucy Maud Montgomery -
Make people happy and there will not be half the quarreling, or a tenth part of the wickedness there now is.
-- Lydia M. Child -
Mental stains can not be removed by time, nor washed away by any waters. [Lat., Animi labes nec diuturnitate vanescere nec omnibus ullis elui potest.]
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
All the wickedness in the world begins with an act of forgetting.
-- Mark Buchanan -
To be energetic and firm where principle demands it, and tolerant in all else, is not easy. It is not easy to abhor wickedness, and oppose it with every energy, and at the same time to have the meekness and gentleness of Christ, becoming all things to all men for the truth's sake. The energy of patience, the most godlike of all, is not easy.
-- Mark Hopkins -
A club hurts the flesh, but evil words hurt the bone.
-- Matthew Polly -
More harm is done by fools through foolishness than is done by evil-doers through wickedness.
-- Muhammad -
To expect wickedness from human beings is the best way I know of to avoid surprises. And when I am surprised, it's always pleasantly.
-- Orson Scott Card -
Jews are responsible for the majority of the wickedness in the world.
-- Professor Griff -
The wickedness of the few makes the calamity of the many.
-- Publilius Syrus -
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 fed by the death of another!
-- Pythagoras -
The curious crime, the fine Felicity and flower of wickedness.
-- Robert Browning -
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 -
It is not difficult to avoid death. It is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
-- Socrates -
I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.
-- Solomon -
Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.
-- Sophocles -
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 wickedness.
-- Stephen Fry -
Are people born wicked, or is wickedness trust upon them?
-- Stephen Schwartz -
Do not become angry and furious.... for those two emotions lead to wickedness, and wickedness leads to the Hellfire.
-- Sufyan al-Thawri -
The Christian who will sit with sealed lips when his Master is assailed, when religion is attacked, when wickedness is broached and defended, when truth is denounced, is a denier of his Lord, as guilty as Simon Peter in Pilate's hall.
-- Theodore L. Cuyler -
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 -
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 our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.
-- Thomas Paine -
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 everything that is cruel.
-- 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 wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.
-- Thomas Paine -
Forever all goodness will be most charming; forever all wickedness will be most odious.
-- Thomas Sprat -
There are souls which, crab-like, crawl continually toward darkness, going back in life rather than advancing in it, using what experience they have to increase their deformity, growing worse without ceasing, and becoming steeped more and more thoroughly in an intensifying wickedness.
-- Victor Hugo -
So enormous, so dreadful, so irremediable did the [slave] trade's wickedness appear that my own mind was completely made up for abolition. Let the consequences be what they would: I from this time determined that I would never rest until I had effected its abolition.
-- William Wilberforce -
He who seeks forgiveness of his sins loves humility, but if he condemns another he seals his own wickedness.
-- Marcus Eremita -
Indiscretion and wickedness, be it known, are first cousins.
-- Ninon de L'Enclos
