Best 121 quotes in «wickedness quotes» category

Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything. It is much easier to steal one hundred pounds than to get it by labour or any other way.

Wickedness is a witchcraft.

Wickedness is witchcraft.

Wickedness is a wrong action.

Wickedness is not as interesting as you might hope.

Wickedness is like cart ropes.

Wickedness never rests easily so, in a way, one might almost feel pity for the wicked, for they are destined to live their lives in fear, in a prison of the heart.

Wrong leads to wrath.

Yey more and more there seemed a bevy of things she was not supposed to think about and by virtue of trying not to, she hardly thought of anything else.

And I have again observed, my dear friend, in this trifling affair, that misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness. At all events, the two latter are of less frequent occurrence.

You have not realized yet that both of you are mine, have you?

You think some are bad or evil or whatnot, but somewhere along the way they were someone's baby, suckling the teat like anybody. Then something puts a volt in 'em and they ain't the same no more.

[About Eichmann:] It was as though in those last minutes he was summing up the lesson that this long course in human wickedness had taught us - the lesson of the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil.

It is possible that the meaning of wisdom in Hebrew indicates aptitude for stratagems and the application of thought in such a way that the stratagems and ruses may be used in achieving either rational or moral virtues, or in achieving skill in a practical art, or in working evil and wickedness.

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.

Evil can be condoned only if in the beyond it is compensated by good and god himself needs immortality to vindicate his ways to man.

Great God, have pity on the wicked, for thou didst everything for the good, when thou madest them good!

However wickedness outstrips men, it has no wings to fly from God.

I do not know whether it ought to be so, but certainly silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.  Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.

If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.

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.

Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot.

Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.

Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman.

The world loves a spice of wickedness.

Pride, if not the origin, is the medium of all wickedness-the atmosphere without which it would instantly die away.

The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil.

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

The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.

There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals.

There is no such thing in man's nature as a settled and full resolve either for good or evil, except at the very moment of execution.

The Bible: a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind.

The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.

This also is a part of the Church's teaching, that the world was made and took its beginning at a certain time, and is to be destroyed on account of its wickedness.

Was ever any wicked man free from the stings of a guilty conscience?

To philosopher and historian the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.

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.

What has this unfeeling age of ours left untried, what wickedness has it shunned?

A genuine Christian with a heart empty of all wickedness and filled with Christ's Love should be able to achieve any spiritual goals for the Glory of God.

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

A man's wickedness shall be upon his own head.

Allow yourself to see the good in people. Not every sinister face harbors a wicked heart.

A man is not for you when all he knows is to slam your back on the bed and ram into you like a wild fool. The interested ones are the ones so interested that they become very interested in only interesting things about you.

A man's wickedness is upon his own head.

A miracle focus culture is propagating wickedness.

Among wise men there is no place at all left for hatred. For no one except the greatest of fools would hate good men. And there is no reason at all for hating the bad. For just as weakness is a disease of the body, so wickedness is a disease of the mind. And if this is so, since we think of people who are sick in body as deserving sympathy rather than hatred, much more so do they deserve pity rather than blame who suffer an evil more severe than any physical illness.

And see ye not that braid braid road That lies across that lily leven? That is the path of wickedness Though some call it the road to heaven

And I've never been wicked,' said the Witch firmly. 'Least, not by my measure. Just independant-minded.' 'Wickedness depends on where you're standing, doesn't it?' said Jenny.

Are those paper clips?' I'd seen them in catalogs, but the pictures don't do them justice. They're beautiful, in an industrial sort of way. Eldric poured a clinking waterfall into my palm. 'Aren't they lovely! I can't keep my hands off them. But I give you fair warning: It was a box of paper clips that got me expelled.' 'Expelled?' 'A box of thousand paper clips,' he said, his long fingers curling, coiling, twisting. 'And a sack of colored glass.' 'Expelled!' I might be a wicked girl who'd think nothing of eating a baby for breakfast, but I'd never allow myself to get expelled. It's far too public.

Evil people are those who knew they're evil, but refused to do anything about it.