Wickedness Quotes - Page 5

• Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will.

  Aristotle

  Parenting, Ill Will, Evil

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• ...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.

  John D. MacDonald

  Hurt, Coffee, People

  John D MacDonald (2013). “Travis McGee: Books 1-3: Introduction by Lee Child”, p.241, Random House

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• Pray to God for gladness. Be glad as children, as the birds of heaven. And let not the sin of men confound you in your doings. Fear not that it will wear away your work and hinder its being accomplished. Do not say, 'Sin is mighty, wickedness is mighty, evil environment is mighty, and we are lonely and helpless, and evil environment is wearing us away and hindering our good work from being done.' Fly from that dejection, children!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Lonely, Children, Men

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• We are now to rank among the nations of the world; but whether our Independence shall prove a blessing or a curse must depend upon our own wisdom or folly, virtue or wickedness.... Justice and virtue are the vital principles of republican government.

  George Mason

  Blessing, Government, Justice

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• Goodness is weakness, pleasantness is poisonous, serenity is mediocrity and kindness is for losers. The best reason for committing loathsome and detestable acts – and let’s face it, I am considered something of an expert in this field – is purely for their own sake. Monetary gain is all very well, but it dilutes the taste of wickedness to a lower level that is obtainable by almost anyone with an overdeveloped sense of avarice. True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good.

  Jasper Fforde

  Kindness, Evil, Serenity

  "The Eyre Affair". Book by Jasper Fforde, July 19, 2001.

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• Evil men by their own nature cannot ever prosper.

  Euripides

  Men, Evil, Evil Man

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Euripides”

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• It is a characteristic of the weak and criminal to attribute to others the misfortunes that are the result of their own wickedness.

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

  Criminals, Weak, Characteristics

  Edgar Rice Burroughs (2015). “The Son of Tarzan: Mystery & Adventure Story”, p.18, 谷月社

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• It is an esoteric doctrine of society, that a little wickedness is good to make muscle; as if conscience were not good for hands and legs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hands, Doctrine, Legs

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.335

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• Wickedness frames the engines of her own torment. She is a wonderful artisan of a miserable life.

  Plutarch

  Miserable, Wonderful, Artisans

  Plutarch (1951). “Selected Lives and Essays”

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• Almost all the moral good which is left among us is the apparent effect of physical evil.

  Samuel Johnson

  Evil, Moral, Effects

  Samuel Johnson, William Page (1860). “Life and Writings”, p.321

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• The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.

  Adolf Hitler

  Aquariums, Evil, Essentials

  Adolf Hitler, Ludwig Lore (1939). “Mein Kampf”, New York : Stackpole

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• Do not become angry and furious....
  for those two emotions lead to wickedness, and wickedness leads to the Hellfire.

  Sufyan al-Thawri

  Two, Emotion, Furious

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• There are souls which, crab-like, crawl continually toward darkness, going back in life rather than advancing in it, using what experience they have to increase their deformity, growing worse without ceasing, and becoming steeped more and more thoroughly in an intensifying wickedness.

  Victor Hugo

  Soul, Darkness, Growing

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.104, Wordsworth Editions

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• The effects of human wickedness are written on the page of history in characters of blood: but the impression soon fades away; so more blood must be shed to renew it.

  Augustus William Hare

  Character, Blood, History

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”

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• Weakness is oftentimes so palpable as to be equivalent to wickedness.

  George Sand

  Weakness

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• 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.

  Gregory Maguire

  Doe, Breakfast, Might

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• The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness.

  Gregory Maguire

  Men, Stupidity, Blindness

  Gregory Maguire (2013). “The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz”, p.172, Harper Collins

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• Satirize wickedness if you must--but pity weakness.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Weakness, Pity, Ifs

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2015). “Emily Climbs”, p.21, Booklassic

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• Insanity has excuses; wickedness has not.

  Ariana Franklin

  Evil, Insanity, Excuse

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• Every evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Evil, Benefactors

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.36, 谷月社

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• The ignorance of the world leaves one at the mercy of its malice.

  William Hazlitt

  Ignorance, Evil, World

  William Hazlitt (1845). “Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.128

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• It must now atone in blood for its complicity in wickedness.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Blood, History

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• Even as the holy and the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each one of you, so the wicked and the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also.

  Khalil Gibran

  Fall, Evil, Wicked

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.66, Lulu.com

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• We often do shallow good in order to accomplish evil with impunity.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Order, Evil, Shallow

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• No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion; it is an evil government.

  Eric Hoffer

  Kindness, Government, Ill Will

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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