Wickedness Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• 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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• One cannot avoid a certain feeling of disgust, when one observes the actions of man displayed on the great stage of the world. Wisdom is manifested by individuals here and there; but the web of human history as a whole appears to be woven from folly and childish vanity, often, too, from puerile wickedness and love of destruction: with the result that at the end one is puzzled to know what idea to form of our species which prides itself so much on its advantages.

  Immanuel Kant

  Pride, Men, Vanity

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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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• Listen to these wounds of pain put in the form of questions to me by a young woman who had had two abortions: "I wonder about the spirits of those I had aborted, if they were there, if they were hurt? I was under three months each time, but a mother feels life before she feels movement." "I wonder if they are lost and alone?" "I wonder if they will ever have a body?" "I wonder if I will ever have a chance again to bring those spirits back as mine?" Alas, brothers and sisters, "wickedness never was happiness" (Alma 41:10).

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Life, Mother, Hurt

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• In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover, and wickedness insensibly open, cultivate and improve.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Weakness, Earth

  Thomas Jefferson (1832). “Notes on the State of Virginia”, p.156

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• The unrighteous are never really fortunate.

  Euripides

  Fortunate

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes”, p.63, University of Chicago Press

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• Le Chiffre was serving a wonderful purpose, a really vital purpose, perhaps the best and highest purpose of all. By his evil existence, which foolishly I have helped to destroy, he was creating a norm of badness by which, and by which alone, an opposite norm of goodness could exist. We were privileged, in our short knowledge of him, to see and estimate his wickedness and we emerge from the acquaintanceship better and more virtuous men.

  Ian Fleming

  Men, Creating, Evil

  "Casino Royale". Book by Ian Fleming, Ch. 20: "The Nature Of Evil", 1953.

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• Maybe violent wickedness can be decapitated, but stupidity has too many heads.

  Andre Glucksmann

  Stupidity, Violent

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• The judge should not be young, he should have learned to know evil, not from his own soul, but from late and long observation of the nature of evil in others.

  Plato

  Should Have, Long, Evil

  Plato, General Press (2016). “The Republic”, p.299, GENERAL PRESS

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• He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance.

  Socrates

  Ignorance, Evil, Said

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• I was a devil of a scapegrace in my time.... Father racked his head for days together to find a punishment that I should remember; but it was all no good... bread and water was a welcome change to me from the everyday monotony of potatoes and bread-and-butter. After a sound drubbing followed by half a day’s fasting, I felt more like laughing than like crying; and, in half a while, all was forgotten and my wickedness began afresh and worse than ever.

  Stijn Streuvels

  Father, Punishment, Water

  Stijn Streuvels (2005). “The Path of Life”, p.10, 1st World Publishing

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• I testify that wickedness is rapidly expanding in every segment of our society. It is more highly organized, more cleverly disguised, and more powerfully promoted than ever before. Secret combinations lusting for power, gain, and glory are flourishing. A secret combination that seeks to overthrow the freedom of all lands, nations, and countries is increasing its evil influence and control over America and the entire world.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Country, Land, America

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• The weak are not a noble breed. Their sublime deeds of faith, daring, and self-sacrifice usually spring from questionable motives. The weak hate not wickedness but weakness; and one instance of their hatred of weakness is hatred of self. All the passionate pursuits of the weak are in some degree a striving to escape, blur, or disguise an unwanted self. It is a striving shot through with malice, envy, self-deception, and a host of petty impulses; yet it often culminates in superb achievements.

  Eric Hoffer

  Hate, Spring, Sacrifice

  Eric Hoffer (1963). “The Ordeal of Change”

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• God is punishing me for my past wickedness by keeping me alive and in as much pain as he can.

  Ginger Baker

  God, Pain, Past

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A man who piously shuts himself up to meditate upon the sin of wickedness and to keep it fresh in his mind joins a brotherhood of awful examples.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Men, Brotherhood, Mind

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.32, 谷月社

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• The curious crime, the fine Felicity and flower of wickedness.

  Robert Browning

  Flower, Curiosity, Crime

  Robert Browning, Ian Jack, Margaret Smith, Rowena Fowler (2004). “The Poetical Works of Robert Browning”, p.122, Oxford University Press

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• Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! Every fool, from king to policeman, from the flatheaded parson to the visionless dabbler in science, presumes to speak authoritatively of human nature. The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature.

  Emma Goldman

  Kings, Names, Weakness

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.34, 谷月社

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• The core of original sin, then is LOT - Lack of Trust. Or, it could be considered an innate inability to adequately value ourselves. Label it a 'negative self-image,' but do not say that the central core of the human soul is wickedness. ... positive Christianity does not hold to human depravity, but to human inability.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Self, Soul, Inability

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• But all the wickedness in the world which man may do or think is no more to the mercy of God than a live coal dropped in the sea.

  William Langland

  Men, Thinking, Mercy Of God

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• God sees with utter clarity who we are. He is undeceived as to our warts and wickedness. But when God looks at us that is not all He sees. He also sees who we are intended to be, who we will one day become.

  John Ortberg

  One Day, Looks, Who We Are

  John Ortberg (2001). “Love Beyond Reason: Moving God's Love from Your Head to Your Heart”, p.24, Harper Collins

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• We're living in an unprecedented day (when) evil is no longer evil. We've changed the terminology-- iniquity is now infirmity; wickedness is now weakness; devilry is now deficiency.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Evil, Weakness, Changed

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