Wickedness Quotes - Page 6

The evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in spirit and energy it awakens.

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.

The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried.

A club hurts the flesh, but evil words hurt the bone.

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

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

Few men are wantonly wicked.

Satirize wickedness if you must--but pity weakness.

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

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

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

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.

Eliminating wickedness is a different project from eliminating violence. Eliminating violence - the destruction associated with wickedness - is a practical program that I'm very willing to pursue.

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?

There is nothing in itself which is wrong or evil not even murder.

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

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.

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.

All through my boyhood I had a profound conviction that I was no good, that I was wasting my time, wrecking my talents, behaving with monstrous folly and wickedness and ingratitude-and all this, it seemed, was inescapable, because I lived among laws which were absolute, like the law of gravity, but which it was not possible for me to keep.

There are heroes of wickedness, as there are of goodness.

The unrighteous are never really fortunate.

There can be - there ought to be - no medium course; a love-affair is either sober earnest or contemptible folly, if not wickedness: to gossip about it is, in the first instance, intrusive, unkind, or dangerous; in the second, simply silly.

So possible is it for us to roll ourselves up in wickedness, till we grow invulnerable by conscience; and that sentinel, once dozed, sleeps fast, not to be awakened while the tide of pleasure continues to flow or till something dark and dreadful brings us to ourselves again.

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

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.