A Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte

The World is not ruined by the wickedness of the wicked, but by the weakness of the good.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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Good Ruined Weakness Wicked Wickedness World

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Napoleon Bonaparte
French - Statesman
August 15, 1769 - May 5, 1821

There is one fairly good reason for fighting - and that is, if the other man starts it. You see, wars are a great wickedness, perhaps the greatest wickedness of a wicked species. They are so wicked that they must not be allowed. When you can be perfectly certain that the other man started them, then is the time when you might have a sort of duty to stop them.

T. H. White

We must repay goodness and wickedness: but why exactly to the person who has done us a good or a wicked turn?

Friedrich Nietzsche

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.

John Milton

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

Confucius

Wickedness is weakness.

John Milton

They said there was no rest for the wicked. In fact, there was rest neither for the virtuous nor the wicked, nor for guys like Billy, who were uncommitted regarding the whole idea of virtue versus wickedness and who were just trying to do their jobs.

Dean Koontz

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.

Jonathan Mayhew

Are people born wicked, or is wickedness trust upon them?

Stephen Schwartz

Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.

Daniel Handler

When may a revival be expected? When the wickedness of the wicked grieves and distresses the Christian.

Billy Sunday

Satirize wickedness if you must--but pity weakness.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Weakness is oftentimes so palpable as to be equivalent to wickedness.

George Sand

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

Arthur Schopenhauer

I am a wicked man... But do you know, gentlemen, what was the main point about my wickedness? The whole thing, precisely was, the greatest nastiness precisely lay in my being shamefully conscious every moment, even in moments of the greatest bile, that I was not only not a wicked man but was not even an embittered man, that I was simply frightening sparrows in vain, and pleasing myself with it.