Wickedness quotes
151 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"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!"
"Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good."
"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."
"The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil."
"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."
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"He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance."
"More harm is done by fools through foolishness than is done by evil-doers through wickedness."
"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 is a characteristic of the weak and criminal to attribute to others the misfortunes that are the result of their own wickedness."
"Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness."
"It is privilege that causes evil in the world, not wickedness, and not men."
"For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel."
"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."
"Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness."
"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."
"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."
"Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation."
"Wickedness is nourished by lust."
"The greatest historian should also be a great moralist. It is no proof of impartiality to treat wickedness and goodness on the same level."
"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."
"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.]"
"There are souls which, crab-like, crawl continually toward darkness, going back in life rather than advancing in it, using what experience they have to increase their deformity, growing worse without ceasing, and becoming steeped more and more thoroughly in an intensifying wickedness."
"It is not difficult to avoid death. It is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death."
