Iniquity Quotes

• Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money and control credit, and with a flick of a pen they will create enough to buy it back.

  Josiah Stamp

  Bankers, Banking, Credit

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• For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.

  St. Jerome

  Men, Unjust, Riches

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• Satan stations more devils on monastery walls than in the dens of iniquity, for the latter offer no resistance.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Wall, Devil, Resistance

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• 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.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Evil, Weakness, Wickedness

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• Our conflict is not likely to cease so soon as every good man would wish. The measure of iniquity is not yet filled; and unless we can return a little more to first principles, and act a little more upon patriotic ground, I do not know when it will.

  George Washington

  Patriotic, Men, Good Man

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson, United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission (1779). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”, p.312

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• Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Patriotism, Politics, Spirit

  Thorstein Veblen (1994). “Absentee Ownership: Business Enterprise in Recent Times : the Case of America”, p.38, Transaction Publishers

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• Val, I'm on Bourbon—” “I will not venture down that street of crass iniquities and plebeian horror, Acheron. It is the cesspit of humanity. Don‟t even ask it.” Ash rolled his eyes at the Roman‟s arrogant tone. “I need you in the swamp.” Silence answered him. "We have a situation." “Where do you need me?

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Eye, Silence, Humanity

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• You see, evil always contains the seeds of its own destruction. It is ultimately negative, and therefore encompasses its downfall even at its moments of apparent triumph. No matter how grandiose, how well-planned, how apparently foolproof of an evil plan, the inherent sinfulness will by definition rebound upon its instigators. No matter how apparently successful it may seem upon the way, at the end it will wreck itself. It will founder upon the rocks of iniquity and sink headfirst to vanish without trace into the seas of oblivion.

  Neil Gaiman

  Successful, Rocks, Sea

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• The police can go to downtown Harlem and pick up a kid with a joint in the streets. But they can't go into the elegant apartments and get a stockbroker who's sniffing cocaine.

  Noam Chomsky

  Kids, White Privilege, Racism

  "Noam Chomsky: Smoke and Mirrors, or Civil Liberties Under President Obama". Interview with Mike Stivers, www.truth-out.org. April 24, 2013.

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• Take all the robes of all the good judges that have ever lived on the face of the earth, and they would not be large enough to cover the iniquity of one corrupt judge.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Law, Judging, Earth

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.241

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• Pride only, the chief of all iniquities, can make us treat gifts as if they were rightful attributes of our nature, and, while receiving benefits, rob our Benefactor of His due glory.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Pride, Receiving, Benefits

  Saint Bernard (of Clairvaux) (1981). “On Loving God: Selection from Sermons”, Greenwood Press

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• Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

  C. S. Lewis

  Race, Earth, Praying

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• The only influence that can really upset the injustice and iniquity of men is the power that breathes in the Christian tradition, renewing our participation in the Life that is the Light of men.

  Thomas Merton

  Christian, Men, Light

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.144, New Directions Publishing

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• Preserve your conscience always soft and sensitive. If but one sin force its way into that tender part of the soul and dwell there, the road is paved for a thousand iniquities.

  Isaac Watts

  Soul, Way, Sin

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• A true saving knowledge of sin is to be had only in the Lord Christ: in him may we see the desert of our iniquities.

  John Owen

  Desert, Saving, May

  John Owen (2001). “Communion with God”, p.101, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• There is no true prayer without confession. As long as we have unconfessed sin in our soul, we are not going to have power with God in prayer. He says if we regard iniquity in our hearts, He will not hear us, much less answer. As long as we are living in any known sin, we have no power in prayer. God is not going to hear it.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Prayer, Heart, Long

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• The Sun shineth as well on the good as the bad: God from on high beholdeth all the workers of iniquity, as well as the upright of heart.

  Thomas Nashe

  Heart, Sun, Wells

  "Christ's Tears over Jerusalem". Book by Thomas Nashe, 1593.

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• I believe that if there is one thing which pierces the Master's heart with unutterable grief, it is not the world's iniquity, but the Church's indifferences.

  F.B. Meyer

  Inspiration, Grief, Believe

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• I rest solely in His righteousness and in His atonement because I know there is nothing I can do to make up for my own iniquity.

  R. C. Sproul

  Atonement, Righteousness, My Own

  Twitter post from Feb 14, 2018

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• If you want to deserve Hell, you need only stay in bed. The world is iniquity; if you accept it, you are an accomplice, if you change it you are an executioner.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  World, Want, Bed

  "The Devil and the Good Lord". Play by Jean-Paul Sartre, Act 3, sc. 6, 1951.

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• I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.

  Solomon

  Law, Wickedness, Saws

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• Whoever is truly humbled — will not be easily angry, nor harsh or critical of others. He will be compassionate and tender to the infirmities of his fellow-sinners, knowing that if there is a difference — it is grace alone which has made it! He knows that he has the seeds of every evil in his own heart. And under all trials and afflictions — he will look to the hand of the Lord, and lay his mouth in the dust, acknowledging that he suffers much less than his iniquities have deserved.

  John Newton

  Heart, Knowing, Dust

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• It clearly follows that to make men moral it is necessary to make their social environment moral. And that can be done in only one way; by assuring the triumph of justice, that is, the complete liberty of everyone in the most perfect equality for all. Inequality of conditions and rights, and the resulting lack of liberty for all, is the great collective iniquity begetting all individual iniquities.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Men, Rights, Perfect

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• Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.

  Jean Rostand

  Faith, Stupid, Vanity

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• The most successful supporters of tyranny are without doubt those general declaimers who attribute the distresses of the poor, and almost all evils to which society is subject, to human institutions and the iniquity of governments.

  Thomas Malthus

  Successful, Government, Evil

  Thomas Robert Malthus (1989). “An Essay on the Principle of Population”, p.129, Cambridge University Press

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