Quotes About Wickedness

Man is armed with craft and courage, which, untamed by justice, he will most wickedly pervert, and become at once the most impious and the fiercest of monsters.

The wickedness of man is boundless; it seems at first as if a trifle would content him, but his passions invigorate by gratification; always indulged, always craving, and continually preying on him who feeds him.

Wickedness is nourished by lust.

Every wicked man is in ignorance as to what he ought to do, and from what to abstain, and it is because of error such as this that men become unjust and, in a word, wicked.

The wicked have no stability, for they do not remain in consistency with themselves; they continue friends only for a short time, rejoicing in each other?s wickedness.

In wickedness the haughty man and the weakling meet. But they misunderstand one another. I know you.

We new philosophers, however, not only do we begin by presenting the actual gradations in rank and variations in value among us but we also desire the very opposite of an assimilation, an equalizing: we teach estrangement in every sense, we tear open gaps as never were, we want man to become more wicked than he ever was.

Technically, on the spectrum of very bad things, they did nothing truly wicked. But of course, that spectrum has no measure for the greatest of all carnal sins, the kind that occurs before skin touches skin, before wondering turns to yearning, yearning to having, having to holding for dear life, when two people cling to each other so desperately that even when they lie, inches apart, neither is fully satisfied until the light between them turns to darkness.

Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.

His appraisal of the state of the world was a bleak one: "No one speaks truthfully anymore," he writes. "Everything is deceit, lies, cunning, theft, sodomy, wickedness, with no fear of God or concern for the world. O miserable Christians, worse than beasts, where are you headed?

Most people who perpetrate evil do not see what they are doing as evil. Evil exists primarily in the eye of the beholder, especially in the eye of the victim.

The world is overwhelmed by evil people, evil forces, and evil things.

How ridiculous not to flee from one's own wickedness, which is possible, yet endeavour to flee from another's, which is not.

It is crazy to want what is impossible. And impossible for the wicked not to do so.

17. El perseguir imposibles es locura. Y es imposible que los malvados no cometan tales acciones.

Nor does she attend conventions any more: she's seen enough kids dressed up like vampires and bunnies and Star Trek , and especially like the nastier villains of Alphinland. She really can't bear one more inept impersonation of Milzreth of the Red Hand – yet another apple-cheeked innocent in quest of his inner wickedness.

No, he said, that is more than a horse can understand, but the enemy must have been awfully wicked people, if it was right to go all that way over the sea on purpose to kill them.

To my mind, fashion is one of the wickedest things in the world.

Don't you see? It is a new age. It requires a new evil. And I am that new evil.

If goodness does exist, then I'm the opposite of it. I'm evil, and I revel in it

True evil in this world is done by those with no imagination.

Evil is a point of view.

Tell me why evil people are so stupid? Why are so many of them just plain stupid?

it again. I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good!