Wickedness Quotes - Page 6

• Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.

  Lucretius

  Men, Literature, Height

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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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• Are people born wicked, or is wickedness trust upon them?

  Stephen Schwartz

  People, Wicked, Born

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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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• 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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• Insanity has excuses; wickedness has not.

  Ariana Franklin

  Evil, Insanity, Excuse

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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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• Before crime is committed conscience must be corrupted, and every bad man who succeeds in reaching a high point of wickedness begins with this.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Men, Succeed, Crime

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• One definition of the wicked is that they will resort to whatever means are necessary to achieve their ends. Therefore, if those who oppose wickedness don't learn the art of war, they will be helpless.

  George Friedman

  Art, War, Mean

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I have long held firm to my suspicion that some people are just evil. In some cases I'll concede it seems as though it is thrust upon someone who had little real hope of avoiding it. However tragic that reality, the simple fact remains that it is more important to protect the rest of society for as long as it remains a danger to them.

  Jeremy Kyle

  Real, Simple, Long

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• The contented and economically comfortable have a very discriminating view of government. Nobody is ever indignant about bailing out failed banks and failed savings and loans associations... But when taxes must be paid for the lower middle class and poor, the government assumes an aspect of wickedness.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Government, Views, Class

  The Guardian, May 23, 1992.

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• For in prosperity a man is often puffed up with pride, whereas tribulations chasten and humble him through suffering and sorrow. In the midst of prosperity the mind is elated, and in prosperity a man forgets himself; in hardship he is forced to reflect on himself, even though he be unwilling. In prosperity a man often destroys the good he has done; amidst difficulties he often repairs what he long since did in the way of wickedness.

  Alfred the Great

  Humble, Pride, Men

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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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• One's worst enormities remain within, and it is only one's vulgar commonplaces of error and folly that turn into murders and suicides, treasons, infidelities, and betrayals.

  Lewis Mumford

  Suicide, Betrayal, Errors

  Lewis Mumford (1979). “My works and days: a personal chronicle”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• The wickedness of a loose or profane author is more atrocious than that of a giddy libertine or drunken ravisher, not only because it extends its effects wider, as a pestilence that taints the air is more destructive than poison infused in a draught, but because it is committed with cool deliberation.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Air, Poison

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.123

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• Kiran says (the shelf) is full of stories. If it is, then I like fairy stories. Fairy stories are fair. In them wishes are granted, words are enchanted, the honest and brave make it safely through to the last page and the baddies either have to give up their wickedness for ever and ever, no going back, or get ruthlessly written out of the story, which they hardly ever survive. Also in fairy stories there are hardly any of those half-good half-bad people that crop up so constantly in real life and are so difficult to believe in.

  Hilary McKay

  Giving Up, Real, Believe

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• Only ignorance! only ignorance! how can you talk about only ignorance? Don't you know that it is the worst thing in the world, next to wickedness? -- and which does the most mischief heaven only knows. If people can say, `Oh! I did not know, I did not mean any harm,' they think it is all right.

  Anna Sewell

  Motivational, Ignorance, Mean

  Anna Sewell (2013). “Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse”, p.65, Lulu Press, Inc

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• If you neglect to instruct children in the way of holiness, will the devil neglect to instruct them in the way of wickedness? No; if you will not teach them to pray, he will to curse, swear, and lie; if ground be uncultivated, weeds will spring.

  John Flavel

  Love, Family, Weed

  John Flavel (1840). “Divine Conduct: Or, The Mystery of Providence, Wherein the Being and Efficacy of Providence are Asserted and Vindicated ... and the Proper Course of Improving All Providences Pointed Out”, p.58

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• For mortal men there is but one hell, and that is the folly and wickedness and spite of his fellows; but once his life is over, there's an end to it: his annihilation is final and entire, of him nothing survives.

  Marquis de Sade

  Men, Finals, Life Is

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• Good and evil lie close together. Seek no artistic unity in character.

  Lord Acton

  Lying, Character, Evil

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• Evil springs up, and flowers, and bears no seed, And feeds the green earth with its swift decay, Leaving it richer for the growth of truth.

  James Russell Lowell

  Spring, Flower, Evil

  James Russell Lowell (1873). “The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell”, p.34

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• Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Self, Evil, Slavery

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.142, Lulu.com

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• The dead are all holy, even they that were base and wicked while alive. Their baseness and wickedness was not they, was but the heavy and unmanageable environment that lay round them.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Evil, Wicked, Alive

  Thomas Carlyle (1881). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.45

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