A Quote by James Baldwin

A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.

James Baldwin

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James Baldwin
American - Writer
August 2, 1924 - December 1, 1987

We do not homeschool to avoid wicked people. We homeschool so we wicked people can talk all day about the one Man who wasn’t wicked.

R. C. Sproul, Jr.

I portray myself as wicked, hoping I will not be regarded as wicked. But I may be wicked in the biblical sense

Errol Flynn

Mrs. Spencer said it was wicked of me to talk like that, but I didn’t mean to be wicked. It’s so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn’t it?

Lucy Maud Montgomery

I don't know why wicked places generally look wicked. You'd think they'd look nice, to fool people, but they hardly ever do.

Daniel Handler

In an average moral universal society, good people will try to do the right thing, and psychotic people will do wicked things. But if you want to make good people do wicked things, you need them to be religious.

Bill Maher

I say that you cannot administer a wicked law impartially. You can only destroy. You can only punish. I warn you that a wicked law, like cholera, destroys everyone it touches - its upholders as well as its defiers.

Jerome Lawrence

These false Jews promote the filth of Hollywood that is seeding the American people and the people of the world and bringing you down in moral strength. … It's the wicked Jews, the false Jews, that are promoting lesbianism, homosexuality. It's the wicked Jews, false Jews, that make it a crime for you to preach the word of God, then they call you homophobic!

Louis Farrakhan

I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.

Alexandre Dumas

I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he could be wicked and wouldn't.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

A companion is but another self; wherefore it is an argument that a man is wicked if he keep company with the wicked.

Pope Clement I

Must we kill to prevent there being any wicked? This is to make both parties wicked instead of one.

Blaise Pascal

The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts; but who can tell the mischief which the very virtuous do?

William Makepeace Thackeray

Every wicked man is in ignorance as to what he ought to do, and from what to abstain, and it is because of error such as this that men become unjust and, in a word, wicked.

Aristotle

Cause I's wicked, - I is. I's mighty wicked, anyhow, I can't help it.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

A wicked tyrant is better than a wicked war.

Martin Luther

God extends his grace to his people (and mankind in general) when he destroys the wicked, because in destroying the wicked, he is averting their evil works that so plague God's children and mankind in general. When he maims and kills cultists and theological liberals, he prevents the spread of heretical doctrine that damns souls...God's judgment - not his favor - leads the world to righteousness. We should petition God's judgment on the wicked because judgment is a form of grace.

Andrew Sandlin

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