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• Oh, but she never wanted James to grow a day older or Cam either. These two she would have liked to keep for ever just as the way they were, demons of wickedness, angels of delight, never to see them grow up into long-legged monsters.

  Virginia Woolf

  Growing Up, Angel, Two

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1028, Delphi Classics

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• There is this of good in real evils; they deliver us, while they last, from the petty despotism of all that were imaginary.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Real, Evil, Lasts

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.455

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• Believe me; all evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.

  Jean Anouilh

  Believe, Men, Ideas

  Jean Anouilh (1958). “Jean Anouilh”

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• The writer cultivates, extends, raises and inflates his imagination, sure that this is his destiny, his usefulness, his contribution to the understanding of good and evil. As he inflates his imagination he inflates his capacity for evil.

  John Cheever

  Destiny, Evil, Imagination

  "Going To The Tigers" by Robert Cohen, www.believermag.com. February 2010.

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• Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating. They can breathe it.

  Jean Genet

  Air, Evil, Criminals

  Jean Genet, Edmund White (1993). “The selected writings of Jean Genet”, Ecco Pr

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• Strictly speaking, one should not even rightly compare virginity to marriage because you cannot make a comparison between two things if one is good and the other evil.

  St. Jerome

  Two, Evil, Should

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• I had no companions to quarrel with, nobody to assist, and nobody to thank... the evil consequence of all this was not, however, what might perhaps have been expected, that I grew up selfish or non affectionate; but that, when affection did come, it came with a violence utterly rampant and unmanageable.

  John Ruskin

  Selfish, Evil, Might

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• The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Passion, Yield, Evil

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.76

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• An infant prodigy of nine is shoved upon the stage in white. She starts off in a dismal whine about a dark and stormy night, a burglar, whose heart is true, despite his wicked-looking face, who puts the little child in doom, to save her mamma's jewel case. This may bring tears to every eye; it does not set my heart on fire. I'd like to stand serenely by and watch that horrid child expire.

  Noel Coward

  Children, Heart, Eye

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• Every time you have with your mouth said well of godliness, and yet gone on in wickedness; or every time you have condemned sin in others, and yet have not refrained it yourselves; I say, every such word and conclusion that hath passed out of thy mouth, sinner, it shall be as a witness against thee in the day of God, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

  John Bunyan

  Jesus, Gone, Mouths

  John Bunyan (1841). “Doctrinal discourses [selected works].”, p.553

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• How great, therefore, the wickedness of human nature is! How many girls there are who prevent conception and kill and expel tender fetuses, although procreation is the work of God.

  Martin Luther

  Girl, Christian, Abortion

  Martin Luther, Helmut T. Lehmann (1986). “Luther's Works: Lectures on Genesis”

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• The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature. Yet how can anyone speak of it today, with every soul in a prison, with every heart fettered, wounded, and maimed?... With human nature caged in a narrow space, whipped daily into submission, how can we speak of its potentialities?

  Emma Goldman

  Heart, Space, Soul

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• But this is not difficult, O Athenians! to escape death; but it is much more difficult to avoid depravity, for it runs swifter than death. And now I, being slow and aged, am overtaken by the slower of the two; but my accusers, being strong and active, have been overtaken by the swifter, wickedness. And now I depart, condemned by you to death; but they condemned by truth, as guilty of iniquity and injustice: and I abide my sentence, and so do they. These things, perhaps, ought so to be, and I think that they are for the best.

  Plato

  Running, Strong, Thinking

  Plato (0101). “Apology, Crito and Phaedo of Socrates”, p.29, Prabhat Prakashan

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• All the wickedness in the world begins with an act of forgetting.

  Mark Buchanan

  World, Forget

  Mark Buchanan (2009). “The Holy Wild: Trusting in the Character of God”, p.108, Multnomah

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• Very simply, the Spirit of Elijah is the Holy Ghost. The Spirit of Elijah will influence anyone who is involved in this work. That, for a young person in the wickedness in the world in which we live today, is one of the greatest safeguards against the temptations of the adversary. The Spirit of Elijah will not only bless you, it will protect you.

  David A. Bednar

  Temptation, Live For Today, World

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• It's not the wickedness of the pagan that breaks my heart. It's the compromise of the Christian that grieves my soul.

  R. C. Sproul

  Christian, Heart, Grieving

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• 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.

  Isaac of Nineveh

  Christian, Compassion, Overcoming

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• Eliminating wickedness is a different project from eliminating violence. Eliminating violence - the destruction associated with wickedness - is a practical program that I'm very willing to pursue.

  Jaron Lanier

  Different, Violence, Destruction

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• 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.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Struggle, Eye, Angel

  Robert Aris Willmott (1866). “Pleasures, Objects, and Advantages of Literature”, p.120

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• My only wickedness is that I love you; my only goodness, the same.

  Constance Fenimore Woolson

  Love You, Goodness

  Constance Fenimore Woolson (2015). “Anne”, p.391, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Occasionally I was so much better that I could go out; but the streets used to put me in such a rage that I would lock myself up for days rather than go out, even if I were well enough to do so! I could not bear to see all those preoccupied, anxious-looking creatures continuously surging along the streets past me! Why are they always anxious? What is the meaning of their eternal care and worry? It is their wickedness, their perpetual detestable malice-that's what it is-they are all full of malice, malice!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Past, Worry, Care

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky (2006). “The Idiot: Easyread Large Edition”, p.542, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There's strong men of wisdom in many different fields. They say 5% of the people are wise and righteous and 10% are wise but use their wiseness for wickedness or to deceive others. It's like a magician: he knows the answer to the trick, but you don't. He has to keep you blind to the truth in order for the illusion to work. When you've got that kind of wisdom and somebody else doesn't, you can always take advantage of them.

  RZA

  Wise, Strong, Men

  Source: www.complex.com

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• Success gives the character of honesty to some classes of wickedness.

  Seneca the Younger

  Honesty, Character, Class

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• Think'st thou there is no tyranny but that Of blood and chains? The despotism of vice-- The weakness and the wickedness of luxury-- The negligence--the apathy--the evils Of sensual sloth--produces ten thousand tyrants, Whose delegated cruelty surpasses The worst acts of one energetic master, However harsh and hard in his own bearing.

  Lord Byron

  Thinking, Tyrants, Luxury

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• The Devil would be the best way out as an excuse for God; in that way he would be playing the same part as an agent of economic discharge as the Jew does in the world of the Aryan ideal. But even so, one can hold God responsible for the existence of the Devil just as well as for the existence of the wickedness which the Devil embodies.

  Sigmund Freud

  Devil, Doe, Would Be

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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