Wickedness Quotes

So enormous, so dreadful, so irremediable did the [slave] trade's wickedness appear that my own mind was completely made up for abolition. Let the consequences be what they would: I from this time determined that I would never rest until I had effected its abolition.

Religion is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it as I detest everything that is cruel.

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!

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

Saw so much of the wickedness of my heart that I longed to get away from myself...I felt almost pressed to death with my own vileness. Oh what a body of death is there in me...Oh the closest walk with God is the sweetest heaven that can be enjoyed on earth!

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.

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

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

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

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

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

Wickedness may prosper for a while.

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

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

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.