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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
My own feeling is that if adultery is wickedness then so is food. Both make me feel so much better afterward.
Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.
Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will.
It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means.
It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power.
There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals.
If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.
It is a characteristic of the weak and criminal to attribute to others the misfortunes that are the result of their own wickedness.
...it isn't foolish or wicked to enjoy. Wickedness is hurting people on purpose. I love what you are and who you are and how you are. You give me great joy. And you make horrible coffee.
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.
The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose; and the consequences are nearly always the same.
We never deceive people to benefit them, for knavery is a compound of wickedness and falsehood.
Crimes are more often committed out of fear than wickedness. People live frightened, desperate lives.
War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
...is it surprising that today we have become so morally blind (for wickedness blinds) that we save the baby whales at great cost, and murder millions of unborn children?
Lend your light to the blind. Why should the wickedness of men irritate you, when it is only blindness?
But all the wickedness in the world which man may do or think is no more to the mercy of God than a live coal dropped in the sea.
Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman.
God is punishing me for my past wickedness by keeping me alive and in as much pain as he can.
The ne plus ultra of wickedness ... is embodied in what is commonly presented to mankind as the creed of Christianity.
It is supposable that, in the eyes of angels, a struggle down a dark lane and a battle of Leipsic differ in nothing but excess of wickedness.
Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness.
Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.
If you are a guillotine producer, watch out your head; because wickedness is a boomerang.
If you had better sense you’d have learned by now that nothing thrives so well as wickedness
The greatest historian should also be a great moralist. It is no proof of impartiality to treat wickedness and goodness on the same level.
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
What is their potential for evil; what is their potential for wickedness? That's the only time that those characters become interesting to watch.
Wickedness frames the engines of her own torment. She is a wonderful artisan of a miserable life.
Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation.
Just as a strongly flowing fountain is not blocked up by a handful of earth, so the compassion of the Creator is not overcome by the wickedness of his creatures.
We must repay goodness and wickedness: but why exactly to the person who has done us a good or a wicked turn?
If all men and women were kept at some useful employment there would be less sorrow and wickedness in the world.
The form of godliness may exist with secret and with open wickedness, but the power of godliness cannot.
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.
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.
...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.
This also is a part of the Church's teaching, that the world was made and took its beginning at a certain time, and is to be destroyed on account of its wickedness.
One of the trials of life is that we do not usually receive immediately the full blessing for righteousness or the full cursing for wickedness.
And when your soul becometh great, then doth it become haughty, and in your sublimity there is wickedness.
As our culture has become increasingly hostile to Christianity, it has become correspondingly open to wickedness.
I have heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold wickedness of the human heart.
Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.
Present-Day Wickedness, Apostasy and Modern Civilization Cannot Prevent Revival.
Wickedness may prosper for awhile, but in the long run, he that sets all the knaves at work will pay them.
Before crime is committed conscience must be corrupted, and every bad man who succeeds in reaching a high point of wickedness begins with this.
The dead are all holy, even they that were base and wicked while alive. Their baseness and wickedness was not they, was but the heavy and unmanageable environment that lay round them.
Make people happy and there will not be half the quarreling, or a tenth part of the wickedness there now is.
Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.
It is possible that these may all be insufficient to control the caprice and wickedness of man. But are they not all that government will admit, and all that human prudence can devise?
Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me.
Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody's fine feelings may be offended.
I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.
The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.
To philosopher and historian the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.
If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.
Pride, if not the origin, is the medium of all wickedness-the atmosphere without which it would instantly die away.
A man who piously shuts himself up to meditate upon the sin of wickedness and to keep it fresh in his mind joins a brotherhood of awful examples.
