A Quote by John Milton
Wickedness is weakness.
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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 man will gain thee no remission.
Weakness is oftentimes so palpable as to be equivalent to wickedness.
Satirize wickedness if you must--but pity weakness.
The World is not ruined by the wickedness of the wicked, but by the weakness of the good.
The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.
It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power.
The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose; and the consequences are nearly always the same.
According to this way of arguing, there will be no true principles in the world; for there are none but what may be wrested and perverted to serve bad purposes, either through the weakness or wickedness of men.
The weak are not a noble breed. Their sublime deeds of faith, daring, and self-sacrifice usually spring from questionable motives. The weak hate not wickedness but weakness; and one instance of their hatred of weakness is hatred of self. All the passionate pursuits of the weak are in some degree a striving to escape, blur, or disguise an unwanted self. It is a striving shot through with malice, envy, self-deception, and a host of petty impulses; yet it often culminates in superb achievements.
Do not become angry and furious....
for those two emotions lead to wickedness, and wickedness leads to the Hellfire.
There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.
In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover, and wickedness insensibly open, cultivate and improve.
Truly it is reasonable to make a great distinction between the faults that come from our weakness and those that come from our wickedness.
The way to wickedness is always through wickedness.
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.
Know that all sins and all evils can be summed up in that one word, weakness. It is weakness that is the motive power in all evil doing; it is weakness that makes men injure others; it is weakness that makes them manifest what they are not in reality. Let them know what they really are.
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