Quotes about Wickedness

Wickedness is its own punishment. Votes: 6

Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything. Votes: 6

Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others. Votes: 6

Oh, how cowardly is wickedness always! Votes: 4

The unrighteous are never really fortunate. Votes: 4

The sun also shines on the wicked. Votes: 4

The world loves a spice of wickedness. Votes: 4

God bears with the wicked, but not forever. Votes: 4

No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason. Votes: 4

Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness. Votes: 4

Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness. Votes: 4

There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees. Votes: 4

If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life. Votes: 4

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness. Votes: 4

Cause I's wicked, - I is. I's mighty wicked, anyhow, I can't help it. Votes: 4

There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act. Votes: 4

When may a revival be expected? When the wickedness of the wicked grieves and distresses the Christian. Votes: 4

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. Votes: 4

Two starving men cannot be twice as hungry as one; but two rascals can be ten times as vicious as one. Votes: 4

This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten. Votes: 4

We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness, which we, from time to time, most grievously have committed, by thought, word and deed. Votes: 4

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts. Votes: 4

As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back. Votes: 4

Society is produced by our wants, and government by wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher. Votes: 4

A wicked mortal is not the idea of God. He is little else than the expression of error. To suppose that sin, lust, hatred, envy, hypocrisy, revenge, have life abiding in them, is a terrible mistake. Life and Life's idea, Truth and Truth's idea, never make men sick, sinful, or mortal. Votes: 4

Wickedness is weakness. Votes: 3

Wickedness is nourished by lust. Votes: 3

Wickedness may prosper for a while. Votes: 3

Present-Day Wickedness, Apostasy and Modern Civilization Cannot Prevent Revival. Votes: 3

Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly. Votes: 3

Wickedness never did, never does, never will bring us happiness. Votes: 3

Wickedness is a kind of voluntary frenzy, and a chosen distraction. Votes: 3

Wickedness frames the engines of her own torment. She is a wonderful artisan of a miserable life. Votes: 3

Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation. Votes: 3

Wickedness may prosper for awhile, but in the long run, he that sets all the knaves at work will pay them. Votes: 3

Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop; the gut expanded to take in more and more. Votes: 3

Wickedness comes to its height by degrees. He that dares say of a less sin, Is it not a little one? will ere long say of a greater, Tush, God regards it not! Votes: 3

...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. Votes: 3

In the commission of evil, fear no man so much as thyself; another is but one witness against thee, thou art a thousand; another thou mayest avoid, thyself thou canst not. Wickedness is its own punishment. Votes: 3

Real joy and happiness come from living in such a way that our Heavenly Father will be pleased with us. ... One cannot break God's commandments and be happy. We should remember the scripture, "Wickedness never was happiness" Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

The way of the Lord is the way of happiness. "˜Wickedness never was happiness' [Alma 41:10]. Transgression never was happiness. Sin never was happiness. Disobedience never was happiness. The way of happiness is following the way of the Lord. I believe this with all my heart. Votes: 3

Peace and wickedness are far asunder. Votes: 0

Insanity has excuses; wickedness has not. Votes: 0

Satirize wickedness if you must--but pity weakness. Votes: 0

Satirize wickedness if you must--but pity weakness. Votes: 0

Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness. Votes: 0

The way to wickedness is always through wickedness. Votes: 0

Indiscretion and wickedness, be it known, are first cousins. Votes: 0

One man's wickedness may easily become all men's curse. Votes: 0

There are heroes of wickedness, as there are of goodness. Votes: 0

Are people born wicked, or is wickedness trust upon them? Votes: 0

The insane and irrational springs of wickedness in most men... Votes: 0

The curious crime, the fine Felicity and flower of wickedness. Votes: 0

The wickedness of the few makes the calamity of the many. Votes: 0

It must now atone in blood for its complicity in wickedness. Votes: 0

Weakness is oftentimes so palpable as to be equivalent to wickedness. Votes: 0

One may detest the wickedness of a brother without hating him. Votes: 0

Slander is a complication, a comprisal and sum of all wickedness. Votes: 0

Success gives the character of honesty to some classes of wickedness. Votes: 0

The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness. Votes: 0

The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter. Votes: 0

Maybe violent wickedness can be decapitated, but stupidity has too many heads. Votes: 0

Jews are responsible for the majority of the wickedness in the world. Votes: 0

However wickedness outstrips men, it has no wings to fly from God. Votes: 0

All the wickedness in the world begins with an act of forgetting. Votes: 0

It is no sin to be tempted; the wickedness lies in being overcome. Votes: 0

Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion. Votes: 0

My only wickedness is that I love you; my only goodness, the same. Votes: 0

Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness. Votes: 0

It is privilege that causes evil in the world, not wickedness, and not men. Votes: 0

In this crucible of wickedness the true greatness of Mormon shines like a star. Votes: 0

What has this unfeeling age of ours left untried, what wickedness has it shunned? Votes: 0

The Bible: a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind. Votes: 0

Forever all goodness will be most charming; forever all wickedness will be most odious. Votes: 0

Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will. Votes: 0

Crimes are more often committed out of fear than wickedness. People live frightened, desperate lives. Votes: 0

More harm is done by fools through foolishness than is done by evil-doers through wickedness. Votes: 0

If you are a guillotine producer, watch out your head; because wickedness is a boomerang. Votes: 0

Sin leads to wickedness and to hearts that become hardened to things of the Spirit. Votes: 0

Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness. Votes: 0

As our culture has become increasingly hostile to Christianity, it has become correspondingly open to wickedness. Votes: 0

It takes physical courage to indulge in wickedness. The "good" are too cowardly to do it. Votes: 0

We never deceive people to benefit them, for knavery is a compound of wickedness and falsehood. Votes: 0

To philosopher and historian the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events. Votes: 0

It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power. Votes: 0

The cross is proof of both the immense love of God and the profound wickedness of sin. Votes: 0

The smug mask of virtue triumphant could be almost as horrible as the face of wickedness revealed. Votes: 0

There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds. Votes: 0

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity. Votes: 0

. . . it seems to me certain that more people are killed out of righteous stupidity than out of wickedness. Votes: 0

And when your soul becometh great, then doth it become haughty, and in your sublimity there is wickedness. Votes: 0

The form of godliness may exist with secret and with open wickedness, but the power of godliness cannot. Votes: 0

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together. Votes: 0

The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are. Votes: 0

I have heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold wickedness of the human heart. Votes: 0

The World is not ruined by the wickedness of the wicked, but by the weakness of the good. Votes: 0

If you had better sense you’d have learned by now that nothing thrives so well as wickedness Votes: 0

Pride, if not the origin, is the medium of all wickedness-the atmosphere without which it would instantly die away. Votes: 0

Lend your light to the blind. Why should the wickedness of men irritate you, when it is only blindness? Votes: 0

He who seeks forgiveness of his sins loves humility, but if he condemns another he seals his own wickedness. Votes: 0

Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me. Votes: 0

Thou art beautiful because God created thee, but thou art a slave to sin... wickedness has made you ugly. Votes: 0

In wickedness of pride is lost the light to understand how little grace is earned and how much given. Votes: 0

Do not become angry and furious.... for those two emotions lead to wickedness, and wickedness leads to the Hellfire. Votes: 0

God is punishing me for my past wickedness by keeping me alive and in as much pain as he can. Votes: 0

The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose; and the consequences are nearly always the same. Votes: 0

The ne plus ultra of wickedness is embodied in what is commonly presented to mankind as the creed of Christianity. Votes: 0

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason. Votes: 0

It's not the wickedness of the pagan that breaks my heart. It's the compromise of the Christian that grieves my soul. Votes: 0

As all our wickedness consists in turning away from our Creator, so all our goodness consists in uniting ourselves with Him. Votes: 0

Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody's fine feelings may be offended. Votes: 0

How ridiculous not to flee from one's own wickedness, which is possible, yet endeavor to flee from another's which is not. Votes: 0

It is not difficult to avoid death. It is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death. Votes: 0

Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils. Votes: 0

If all men and women were kept at some useful employment there would be less sorrow and wickedness in the world ... Votes: 0

My own feeling is that if adultery is wickedness then so is food. Both make me feel so much better afterward. Votes: 0

Make people happy and there will not be half the quarreling, or a tenth part of the wickedness there now is. Votes: 0

There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals. Votes: 0

I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness. Votes: 0

I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there. Votes: 0

We must repay goodness and wickedness: but why exactly to the person who has done us a good or a wicked turn? Votes: 0

Call it no more free-will, but slavish lust; free to evil, but free from good, till regenerating grace loosens the bands of wickedness. Votes: 0

Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation. Votes: 0

What is their potential for evil; what is their potential for wickedness? That's the only time that those characters become interesting to watch. Votes: 0

It is a characteristic of the weak and criminal to attribute to others the misfortunes that are the result of their own wickedness. Votes: 0

Our wickedness shall not overpower the unspeakable goodness and mercy of God; our dullness shall not overpower God's wisdom, nor our infirmity God's omnipotence. Votes: 0

Before crime is committed conscience must be corrupted, and every bad man who succeeds in reaching a high point of wickedness begins with this. Votes: 0

The holy man, though he be distressed, does not eat food mixed with wickedness. The lion, though hungry, will not eat what is unclean. Votes: 0

To expect wickedness from human beings is the best way I know of to avoid surprises. And when I am surprised, it's always pleasantly. Votes: 0

It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means. Votes: 0

Truly it is reasonable to make a great distinction between the faults that come from our weakness and those that come from our wickedness. Votes: 0

The greatest historian should also be a great moralist. It is no proof of impartiality to treat wickedness and goodness on the same level. Votes: 0

In Victorian England, people were told they should discourage their wives from reading because it would lead them into all sorts of devilish wickedness. Votes: 0

Virtue and vice are not arbitrary things; but there is a natural and eternal reason for goodness and virtue, and against vice and wickedness. Votes: 0

Tolerating evil leads only to more evil. And when good people stand by and do nothing while wickedness reigns, their communities will be consumed. Votes: 0

Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness. Votes: 0

Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness. Votes: 0

Christ was either the grandest, guiltiest of impostors, by a marvelous and most subtle refinement of wickedness, or He was God manifest in the flesh. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

One of the trials of life is that we do not usually receive immediately the full blessing for righteousness or the full cursing for wickedness. Votes: 0

My world, my world... How can such a good little girl like you destroy all of my beautiful wickedness. - Wicket Witch of the North Votes: 0

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Combinations of wickedness would overwhelm the world, by the advantage which licentious principles afford, did not those who have long practised perfidy grow faithless to each other. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Ordinarily, God allows these things [i.e. evil suggestions and wickedness] to happen to free us from some hidden pride and to engender in us holy humility. Votes: 0

There is much said about the wickedness of doing evil that good may come. Alas! there is such a thing as doing good that evil may come. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

How quickly was every bad thing discovered to be the fault of the previous administration (an evil set of men who wedded general stupidity to wickedness of purpose). Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

WITCH, n. (1) Any ugly and repulsive old woman, in a wicked league with the devil. (2) A beautiful and attractive young woman, in wickedness a league beyond the devil. Votes: 0

When my children hear godliness out of my mouth and they see wickedness in my life, then I point them to heaven and I lead them to hell. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than all the mark of Adam may redress. Votes: 0

...is it surprising that today we have become so morally blind (for wickedness blinds) that we save the baby whales at great cost, and murder millions of unborn children? Votes: 0

...the sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by far the hardest to bear. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

How well u treat the wicked people, they do nto give up their wickedness. They derive pleasure in hurting others. A serpent made to drink milk, it ejects poison only. Votes: 0

The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing called revelation, or revealed religion. Votes: 0

If weakness may excuse, What murderer, what traitor, parricide, Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it? All wickedness is weakness; that plea, therefore, With God or man will gain thee no remission. Votes: 0

When You smoke herb it reveals you to yourself. All the wickedness you do is revealed by the herb - it's you conscience and gives you an honest picture of yourself. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to fatten our greedy bodies by cramming in other bodies, to have one living creature fed by the death of another! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Our faith gathers and slings together all the best and most altruistic principles into one set, utterly perfect in measure, and utterly potent in it's defiance to the wickedness of this world. Votes: 0

Twenty-year-olds have a kind of emotional idealism about relationships and about the world that enables them to say, 'No, you lied to me. Goodbye.' When they see wickedness, they walk away. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It is a man's own dishonesty, his crimes, his wickedness, and boldness, that takes away from him soundness of mind; these are the furies, these the flames and firebrands, of the wicked. Votes: 0

The colossal might of wickedness, he thought: 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." Votes: 0

Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood wears, Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs. Votes: 0

It is possible that these may all be insufficient to control the caprice and wickedness of man. But are they not all that government will admit, and all that human prudence can devise? Votes: 0

Those who submit to the Lord with simple heart will run the good race. If they keep their minds on a leash, they will not draw the wickedness of the demons onto themselves. Votes: 0

In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil. Votes: 0

It wasn't only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding; above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you. Votes: 0

...It would be more consistent that we call [the Bible] the work of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind. Votes: 0

In morals, what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion, what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil. Votes: 0

Personally, I see little distinction between an artistic mentality and criminality. You couldn't possibly create a compelling story without some wickedness or some fascination with the disgusting. Being good is a hindrance to a writer. Votes: 0

If a person seems wicked, do not cast him away. Awaken him with your words, elevate him with your deeds, repay his injury with your kindness. Do not cast him away; cast away his wickedness. Votes: 0

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." Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

God has sometimes converted wickedness into madness; and it is to the credit of human reason that men who are not in some degree mad are never capable of being in the highest degree wicked. Votes: 0

If a person seems wicked, do not cast him away. Awaken him with your words, elevate him with your deeds, repay his injury with your kindness. Do not cast him away; cast away his wickedness. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Persistently leavening public opinion, in a grossly superstitious age, with the theological doctrine of popular preachers, that woman is a sex of superior wickedness and inferior mentality, could have but one general result throughout Christendom. Votes: 0