Wicked Quotes - Page 19

• You are a wicked motorcar, and I shall not give you any more petrol until you go.

  Bertrand Russell

  Giving, Petrol

  Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.

  Queen Victoria

  Women, Thinking, Courageous

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• You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.

  Horace

  Sloth, Laziness, Literature

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• So go marry someone, provided you're equally yoked and you actually like being with each other. Go get a job, provided it's not wicked. Go live somewhere in something with somebody or nobody. But put aside the passivity and the quest for complete fulfillment and the perfectionism and the preoccupation with the future, and for God's sake start making some decisions in your life. Don't wait for the liver-shiver. If you are seeking first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, you will be in God's will, so just go out and do something.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Jobs, Decision, Waiting

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• You are out of the way of temptation and out of the way of the tempter - I didn't mean to make you wicked - but I was - and am - and shall be - and I was with you so much that I couldn't help contaminate.

  Emily Dickinson

  Mean, Temptation, Atheism

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• Let it stand, therefore, as an indubitable truth, which no engines can shake, that the mind of man is so entirely alienated from the righteousness of God that he cannot conceive, desire, or design any thing but what is wicked, distorted, foul, impure, and iniquitous; that his heart is so thoroughly envenomed by sin that it can breathe out nothing but corruption and rottenness; that if some men occasionally make a show of goodness, their mind is ever interwoven with hypocrisy and deceit, their soul inwardly bound with the fetters of wickedness.

  John Calvin

  Heart, Men, Hypocrisy

  John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.299, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The death sentence is a necessary and efficacious means for the Church to attain its end when rebels act against it and disturbers of the ecclesiastical unity, especially obstinate heretics and heresiarchs, cannot be restrained by any other penalty from continuing to derange the ecclesiastical order and impelling others to all sorts of crime ... When the perversity of one or several is calculated to bring about the ruin of many of its children it is bound effectively to remove it, in such wise that if there be no other remedy for saving its people it can and must put these wicked men to death.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Wise, Children, Mean

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• In an average moral universal society, good people will try to do the right thing, and psychotic people will do wicked things. But if you want to make good people do wicked things, you need them to be religious.

  Bill Maher

  Religious, Average, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The human face is a weak guarantee; yet it deserves some consideration. And if I had to whip the wicked, I would do so more severely to those who belied and betrayed the promises that nature had implanted on their brows; I would punish malice more harshly when it was hidden under a kindly appearance.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Deception, Promise, Guarantees

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• What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.

  Moliere

  Men, Aristocracy, Lord

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• I have written a wicked book, and feel spotless as the lamb. Ineffable socialities are in me. I would sit down and dine with you and all the gods in old Rome's Pantheon. It is a strange feeling--no hopefulness is in it, no despair. Content--that is it; and irresponsibility; but without licentious inclination.

  Herman Melville

  Book, Rome, Feelings

  Herman Melville (2001). “Tales, Poems, and Other Writings”

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• I do not know how wicked American millionaires are, but as I travel about and see the results of their generosity in the form of hospitals, churches, public libraries, universities, parks, recreation grounds, art museums and theatres I wonder what on earth we should do without them.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Art, Museums, Generosity

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• And thus Snow White became the prince's bride.
  The wicked queen was invited to the wedding feast
  and when she arrived there were
  red-hot iron shoes,
  in the manner of red-hot roller skates,
  clamped upon her feet.

  Anne Sexton

  Marriage, Queens, Iron

  Anne Sexton (2001). “Transformations”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Misanthropy ariseth from a man trusting another without having sufficient knowledge of his character, and, thinking him to be truthful, sincere, and honourable, finds a little afterwards that he is wicked, faithless, and then he meets with another of the same character. When a man experiences this often, and more particularly from those whom he considered his most dear and best friends, at last, having frequently made a slip, he hates the whole world, and thinks that there is nothing sound at all in any of them.

  Plato

  Hate, Character, Men

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• Gun producer and the killer is the same thing! Be ethical, stop producing guns! Be human, for God's sake, for there shall never be peace of mind for the wicked!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Peace, Gun, Mind

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• I always played the ugly sister instead of Cinderella or the Wicked Witch. But those are the parts I love, and actually, to be a character actress, you have more longevity, hopefully.

  Lucy Punch

  Character, Ugly, Actresses

  "Talented British actress Lucy Punch packs a wallop". Interview with Michael Ordoña, www.sfgate.com. June 19, 2011.

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• Doubt that there could ever be...a more wicked MC. 'Cuz AIDS infested child molesters aren't sicker than me.

  Immortal Technique

  Children, Doubt, Technique

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• A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.

  James A. Baldwin

  Civilization, People, Spineless

  "Letter from a Region in My Mind" by James Baldwin, www.newyorker.com. November 17, 1962.

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• What drives me mad in evangelical circles, including some young Reformed circles, is that there is often a sit-on-the-couch-and-wait-for-God-to-do-something mentality that is unbiblical and wicked. It's probably been true of every generation, but I can see it most clearly in the younger crowd. There seems to be so little war when it comes to sin.

  Matt Chandler

  War, Circles, Mad

  Source: skyejethani.com

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• I've always thought it would be fun to update "Hansel and Gretel." I'd have these white parents in the suburbs with an income of fifty or sixty thousand dollars. Daddy loses his job, and the wicked stepmother says, "We could get along, we could keep our Mastercharge, if you'd just get rid of those shitty kids." Finally the father hires a limo and tells the driver, "Drop 'em off on Lenox Avenue in Harlem at two in the morning." These two little white kids land there. They're menaced. And this supposedly nice black lady says, "Would you like some candy?"

  Stephen King

  Morning, Jobs, Fun

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• Without the lord to shield you and guide you, you gonna fade away. Jah is your shield and your guide. The wicked man gotta turn aside. No need to fear no wicked guide. Rastafari protect your life!

  Sizzla

  Men, Needs, Shields

  Source: www.thepier.org

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• Only the stupid and the wicked can fear rational criticism.

  Mario Bunge

  Stupid, Criticism, Rational

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

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• There's a Cuban saying: Bicho malo nunca muere. Loose translation: The good die young but the wicked live forever. It seems to apply to Fidel. I hope it applies to me.

  Gustavo Perez Firmat

  Forever, Cuban, Young

  Source: www.gustavoperezfirmat.com

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• There are a lot of filmmakers I love whose work doesn't inspire mine at all. For example: Quentin Tarantino. From his films you can see that he has a wicked sense of humour, and I love that!

  Chika Anadu

  Inspire, Example, Film

  "Chika Anadu On Her Debut ‘B for Boy,’ Transitioning To Film, Telling ‘Women’s Stories,’ More". Interview with MsWOO, www.indiewire.com. October 29, 2013.

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• Man is not born wicked; he becomes so, as he becomes sick.

  Voltaire

  Men, Evil, Sick

  Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.4677, Delphi Classics

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