A Quote by Winston Churchill
The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.
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Temptations make one very censorious. If you are virtuous you condemn the wicked and if you are wicked, you condemn the virtuous.
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?
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.
Goodness is equally hateful to the wicked, as vice is to the virtuous.
A virtuous heretic shall be saved before a wicked Christian.
To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.
It has often been said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts. Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. Hatred, malice, rudeness, intolerance, and suspicion are the faults of weakness. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from their sense of inadequacy and impotence. We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.
The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who
are virtuous for virtue's sake.
Nothing is truly infamous, but what is wicked; and therefore shame can never disturb an innocent and virtuous mind.
The law cannot make a wicked person virtuous…God’s grace alone can accomplish such a thing.
The World is not ruined by the wickedness of the wicked, but by the weakness of the good.
Wicked people sometimes perform good actions. I suppose they wish to see if this gives as great a feeling of pleasure as the virtuous claim for it.
To say then, the majority are wicked, means no malice, no bad heart in the observer, but, simply that the majority are unripe, andhave not yet come to themselves, do not yet know their opinion.
The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.
What is reprehensible is that while leading good lives themselves and abhorring those of wicked men, some, fearing to offend, shut their eyes to evil deeds instead of condemning them and pointing out their malice.
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