Wickedness Quotes

Jews are responsible for the majority of the wickedness in the world.

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.

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

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

Malice often takes the garb of truth.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Indiscretion and wickedness, be it known, are first cousins.

The majority is wicked.

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.

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

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

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

Wickedness is its own punishment.

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.

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

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

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

We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.

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.

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

People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.

Wickedness is weakness.

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

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

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

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

Mental stains can not be removed by time, nor washed away by any waters. [Lat., Animi labes nec diuturnitate vanescere nec omnibus ullis elui potest.]

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

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

It is the evil that lies in ourselves that is ever least tolerant of the evil that dwells within others.

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.

Wickedness is nourished by lust.

Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.

Strictly speaking, one should not even rightly compare virginity to marriage because you cannot make a comparison between two things if one is good and the other evil.

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).

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.

The world loves a spice of wickedness.

The sun also shines on the wicked.

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.

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

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

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

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

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