Quotes About Wickedness

Too many times, religion mothers crimes and wickedness.

Evil is a point of view,' he whispered now. 'We

You know what a liar I am, don't you?" I asked her. "You know how wicked I have been. And you play my game with me, don't you, my Sovereign?

Who would have thought," the witch had asked, "that a good little girl like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness?

Why do the wicked prosper?" In essence, there are many answers, but they all boil down to one common denominator: The wicked prosper because God will not control human nature. He will only invite us into his affections.

Oh no, if you really want to be wicked to him, nuke it first. (Geary) Yeah, but given his reaction to the cupcake, that might overload his taste buds with pleasure and kill him. (Tory)

Wickedness frames the engines of her own torment. She is a wonderful artisan of a miserable life.

THE RETRIBUTION PRINCIPLE (RP) is the conviction that the righteous will prosper and the wicked will suffer, both in proportion to their respective righteousness and wickedness. In Israelite theology the principle was integral to the belief in God's justice.

No se precisa un diploma en la pared para acreditar que se es perverso.

A los asesinos les encanta lo corriente —pensó—. Lo corriente los oculta. Lo corriente es seguro. Lo corriente esconde toda esa maldad mejor que cualquier otra clase de velo.»

It really was shocking, as though the world was going mad, people turning in on themselves and falling prey to wicked thoughts.

It proved what the Vicar said, that there really was a devil lurking in the shadows in the dark recesses of the human mind, a monster preying on the defenceless, the old and the young, small boys and old ladies, the raving lunatics turned onto the streets for some care in the community. It really was shocking, as though the world was going mad, people turning in on themselves and falling prey to wicked thoughts.

Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.

ON WHITES AS "DEVILS" "It's what He revealed, and what He revealed is what I am teaching and believe in, and this term "devil," or name "devil," is applied to wicked people, people who are by nature wicked. "They were made white, or different color, because they had been grafted out of the darker people, and, therefore, they have that color." ON FRUIT OF ISLAM "The Fruit of Islam means the first converts

He seemed far too small to be the source of the air of wicked malice that surrounded him, but Dust knew better.

Ever notice how the more depraved a man is, the more he tries to ruin other people's fun?

He is disgusted not only by the whores of his city but also by the "wicked" sexuality of women in general.

And let me tell you this: our higher senses are blunted. We are so drenched with material sin, that we should probably fail to recognize real wickedness if we encountered it

And let me tell you this: our higher senses are so blunted, we are so drenched with materialism, that we should probably fail to recognize real wickedness if we encountered it.

Most of us are just indifferent, mixed-up creatures; we muddle through the world without realizing the meaning and the inner sense of things, and, consequently, our wickedness and our goodness are alike second-rate, unimportant.

I think you are falling into the very general error of confining the spiritual world to the supremely good; but the supremely wicked, necessarily, have their portion in it. The merely carnal, sensual man can no more be a great sinner than he can be a great saint. Most of us are just indifferent, mixed-up creatures; we muddle through the world without realizing the meaning and the inner sense of things, and, consequently, our wickedness and our goodness are alike second-rate, unimportant.

The development of wickedness is one thing; the presence of any measure of holiness or virtue is another.

Because one stage of depravity is lower than another, this does not warrant the denial that the first stage is degraded. The development of wickedness is one thing; the presence of any measure of holiness or virtue is another. The absence of certain forms of sins does not imply any innate purity. It might as well be affirmed that a recent corpse, which is less loathsome, is therefore less dead than one which is far gone in decay and putrefaction.

The total depravity of human nature does not mean that it actually breaks forth into open acts of all kinds of evil in any one man.