Wickedness Quotes - Page 4

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

We often do shallow good in order to accomplish evil with impunity.

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.

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

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

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

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

Oh, how cowardly is wickedness always!

Although among heretics and schismatics there is the same Baptism, nevertheless, the remission of sins is not operative among them because of the very rottenness of discord and wickedness of dissension ... Baptism was in them, but it did not profit them outside the Church ... Outside the Church, Baptism works death because of discord.

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

Every evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor.

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.

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

Such evil deeds could religion prompt.

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

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

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.

Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.

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

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.

Weakness is oftentimes so palpable as to be equivalent to wickedness.

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

Evil men by their own nature cannot ever prosper.

For as to the dispersing of Books, that Circumstance does perhaps as much harm as good: Since Nonsense flies with greater Celerity, and makes greater Impression than Reason; though indeed no particular species of Nonsense is so durable. But the several Forms of Nonsense never cease succeeding one another; and Men are always under the Dominion of some one or other, though nothing was ever equal in Absurdity and Wickedness to our present Patriotism.

There is this of good in real evils; they deliver us, while they last, from the petty despotism of all that were imaginary.