Wickedness Quotes - Page 13

• Fishing is the chance to wash one's soul with pure air. It brings meekness and inspiration, reduces our egoism, soothes our troubles and shames our wickedness. It is discipline in the equality of men--for all men are equal before fish.

  Herbert Hoover

  Inspiration, Men, Air

  1951 Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• Real joy and happiness come from living in such a way that our Heavenly Father will be pleased with us. ... One cannot break God's commandments and be happy. We should remember the scripture, "Wickedness never was happiness"

  W. Eugene Hansen

  Life, Father, Real

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Wicked, Done, Goodness

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• Every age and every nation has certain characteristic vices, which prevail almost universally, which scarcely any person scruples to avow, and which even rigid moralists but faintly censure. Succeeding generations change the fashion of their morals with the fashion of their hats and their coaches; take some other kind of wickedness under their patronage, and wonder at the depravity of their ancestors.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Fashion, Age, Generations

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• A rake is a composition of all the lowest, most ignoble, degrading, and shameful vices; they all conspire to disgrace his character, and to ruin his fortune; while wine and the pox content which shall soonest and most effectually destroy his constitution.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Drinking, Wine, Character

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• I became evil for no reason. I had no motive for my wickedness except wickedness itself. It was foul, and I loved it. I loved the self-destruction, I loved my fall, not the object for which I had fallen but my fall itself. My depraved soul leaped down from your firmament to ruin. I was seeking not to gain anything by shameful means, but shame for its own sake.

  Saint Augustine

  Fall, Mean, Self

  Saint Augustine, Henry Chadwick (2008). “The Confessions”, p.29, Oxford Paperbacks

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• There is much said about the wickedness of doing evil that good may come. Alas! there is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

  Amelia Barr

  Evil, May, Doing Good

  Amelia Barr (2017). “Jan Vedder's Wife”, p.36, Litres

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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, Saws, Sun

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• Religion is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it as I detest everything that is cruel.

  Thomas Paine

  Age Of Reason, Sincerely, Humankind

  Thomas Paine (1934). “The Works of Thomas Paine: His Epoch-making Writings in Religion, Government, Human Rights and International Relations”, New York : .H. Wise

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• The ne plus ultra of wickedness ... is embodied in what is commonly presented to mankind as the creed of Christianity.

  John Stuart Mill

  Religious, Evil, Religion

  "Autobiography John Stuart Mill: Top Biography".

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• [Judaism is] ever... mighty in wickedness... when it cursed Moses; when it hated God; when it vowed its sons to demons; when it killed the prophets, and finally when it betrayed to the Praetor and crucified our God Himself and Lord... And so glorying through all its existence in iniquity.

  Hilary of Poitiers

  Son, Betrayed, Demon

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• Few men are wantonly wicked.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Wicked

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.183, Vintage

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• One may detest the wickedness of a brother without hating him.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Brother, Hate, May

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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• Do good even to the wicked; it is as well to shut a dog's mouth with a crumb.

  Saadi

  Dog, Wicked, Mouths

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• All through my boyhood I had a profound conviction that I was no good, that I was wasting my time, wrecking my talents, behaving with monstrous folly and wickedness and ingratitude-and all this, it seemed, was inescapable, because I lived among laws which were absolute, like the law of gravity, but which it was not possible for me to keep.

  George Orwell

  Law, Profound, Boyhood

  George Orwell, Peter Hobley Davison, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “It is what I think: 1947-1948”

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• The animals share with us the privilege of having a soul Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to fatten our greedy bodies by cramming in other bodies, to have one living creature fed by the death of another! In the midst of such wealth as earth, the best of mothers, provides, yet nothing satisfies you, but to behave like the Cyclopes, inflicting sorry wounds with cruel teeth! You cannot appease the hungry cravings of your wicked, gluttonous stomachs except by destroying some other life.

  Pythagoras

  Mother, Sorry, Philosophical

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• A good Soul hath neither too great joy, nor too great sorrow: for it rejoiceth in goodness; and it sorroweth in wickedness. By the means whereof, when it beholdeth all things, and seeth the good and bad so mingled together, it can neither rejoice greatly; nor be grieved with over much sorrow.

  Pythagoras

  Mean, Joy, Soul

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• Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to fatten our greedy bodies by cramming in other bodies, to have one living creature fed by the death of another!

  Pythagoras

  Vegetarianism, Body, Flesh

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• What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? He who does not play at dice, but spends his leisure otherwise, what nonsense does he not utter? What absurdities does he not listen to? Leisure without the fear of God is, for those who do not know how to use time, the teacher of wickedness.

  Saint Basil

  Teacher, Play, Evil

  Saint Basil (2010). “Exegetic Homilies (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 46)”, p.133, CUA Press

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• He who abhors and shuns the light of the Sun,He who refuses to behold with respect the living creation of God,He who leads the good to wickedness,He who makes the meadows waterless and the pastures desolate,He who lets fly his weapon against the innocent,An enemy of my faith, a destroyer of Thy principles is he, O Lord!

  Zoroaster

  Past, Light, Enemy

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• God indeed tempteth no man; but yet we ask, in this petition, that he would keep and preserve us, lest the devil, the world, and our own flesh delude and draw us away from the true faith, and throw us into superstition, distrust, despair, and other grievous sins and wickedness; and that, if we should be tempted therewith even to the highest degree, we still may conquer, and at last triumph over them.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Despair, Devil

  Martin Luther (2017). “Martin Luther's Table Talk”, p.72, Gideon House Books

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• The Christian who will sit with sealed lips when his Master is assailed, when religion is attacked, when wickedness is broached and defended, when truth is denounced, is a denier of his Lord, as guilty as Simon Peter in Pilate's hall.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Christian, Lips, Guilty

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 189, 1895.

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• Life is as if you were traveling a ridge crest. You have the gulf of inefficiency on one side and the gulf of wickedness on the other, and it helps not to have avoided one gulf if you fall into the other.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Fall, Sides, Helping

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.7, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Slander is a complication, a comprisal and sum of all wickedness.

  Isaac Barrow

  Slander, Complication

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• Forever all goodness will be most charming; forever all wickedness will be most odious.

  Thomas Sprat

  Forever, Charming, Goodness

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