Quotes About Wickedness

There have been men indeed splendidly wicked, whose endowments threw a brightness on their crimes, and whom  scarce any villany made perfectly detestable, because they never could be wholly divested of their excellencies; but such have been in all ages the great corrupters of the world, and their resemblance ought no more to be preserved, than the art of murdering without pain.

Wicked people, I believe, my dear, are the severest punishers of those wicked people, who administer not to their own particular gratifications. Can mercy be expected from such? Mercy is a virtue.

O the unparalleled wickedness, stratagems, and devices, of those who call themselves gentlemen, yet pervert the design of Providence, in giving them ample means to do good, to their own everlasting perdition, and the ruin of poor oppressed innocence!

28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a base mind and to improper conduct. 29They were filled with all manner of wickedness, evil, covetousness, malice. Full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity, they are gossips, 30slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 31foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.

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. In

Praise is the great act of rebellion against sin, the great repudiation of our wicked refusal to acknowledge God to be the Lord.

Righteousness brings happiness. Wickedness never does. If there were no God, no plan, no law, and no divine order, there would be no reason wickedness would not bring happiness. But it never does. The history of civilization is a testament that hedonism, perversion, brutality, corruption, and wickedness sow seeds of misery, sorrow, and destruction. It is not a quirk of evolution. It is evidence of a divinely appointed plan.12

For we never have naked and empty symbols, except when our ingratitude and wickedness hinder the working of divine beneficence.

himself, even if the means of escape lay before him; nay, he embraces him not less as the avenger of wickedness than as the rewarder of the righteous; because he perceives that it equally appertains to his glory to store up punishment for the one, and eternal life for the other.

We are not to reflect on the wickedness of men but to look to the image of God in them, an image which, covering and obliterating their faults, an image which, by its beauty and dignity, should allure us to love and embrace them.

Wickedness never rests easily so, in a way, one might almost feel pity for the wicked, for they are destined to live their lives in fear, in a prison of the heart.

After all, evil was a kind of poison, an infection of the soul.

See the judge upon the bench who tries the case as best he can, see the wise and wicked ones who feed upon life's sacred fire, see the soldier with his gun who must be dead to be admired.

There are different ways of evil and I prefer mine to yours.

Flirting is a side effect of evil thoughts.

De Sade says you must commit crimes. In using the word crime we're adopting the consensus term, though among ourselves we would not describe any of our actions as such. We need the universally valid norm to get a kick out of our own extremeness. We are monsters, even if we disguise ourselves as ordinary people. We are the children of ordinary people, but we are not content with that. Inwardly we are consumed with wickedness, outwardly we are grammar school pupils.

A bad woman is even worse than a worst man on the wickedness nature in this deaf and dumb world.

A person who tends to praise only own face often or always and loves to have likes on own looks in all possible ways almost everyday on the social media is either a wicked man or a woman and there is no difference between both of them.

A woman who goes against a man for the protection of her selfishness can supersede to the wickedness of seven devils or ten demons.

People can be educated but not protected from getting attracted towards a wicked person as that power lies within everyone's nature only.

The more a person loves to get admired or liked by the people on own looks or countenance, the more he or she is actually a wicked in true sense.

The prize to a wise man from an invisible God is his regular seclusion & safe, long distance from woman; whereas the punishment to the wicked person from omnipresent Lord is a horde of people especially women around him often.

There are basically two types of people who remain or seem mostly happy or ecstatic. One is wicked or unempathetic person who does not think anything truly good for others and Other is stupid or lunatic who can not think as what is actually good for oneself.

An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.