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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Wickedness may prosper for a while.

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

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

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

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.

There seems to be no end to the senseless wickedness done on this little planet in a minor solar system, and we puny mortals appear to be decreasing in importance so far as the universe is concerned.

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.

What has this unfeeling age of ours left untried, what wickedness has it shunned?

Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.

The wickedness of the few makes the calamity of the many.

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.

Malice often takes the garb of truth.

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

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

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.

Every time you have with your mouth said well of godliness, and yet gone on in wickedness; or every time you have condemned sin in others, and yet have not refrained it yourselves; I say, every such word and conclusion that hath passed out of thy mouth, sinner, it shall be as a witness against thee in the day of God, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

The majority is wicked.

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

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

[Judaism is] ever... mighty in wickedness... when it cursed Moses; when it hated God; when it vowed its sons to demons; when it killed the prophets, and finally when it betrayed to the Praetor and crucified our God Himself and Lord... And so glorying through all its existence in iniquity.

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

God sees with utter clarity who we are. He is undeceived as to our warts and wickedness. But when God looks at us that is not all He sees. He also sees who we are intended to be, who we will one day become.

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

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

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

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.

Wickedness is its own punishment.

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

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

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