Quotes About Wickedness

Voltaire says, we shall leave this world as foolish and as wicked as we found it on our arrival.

Fear in its most wicked, powerful form cripples our souls and warps the very fabric of our true hearts.

It is perhaps, plausible that a man in this situation, impressed with the unconcern of the universe, should see the innumerable flaws of his life and have them taste wickedly in his mind and wish for another chance.

Wicked men never learn, for wicked men have no interest in myths, legends and stories. If they had they would learn from them and triumph, so we must be glad of their ignorance and dullness of wits.

None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience.

My wickedness, as I am in myself, has long appeared to me perfectly ineffable, and infinitely swallowing up all thought and imagination; like an infinite deluge or infinite mountains over my head.

There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.

There are in the souls of wicked men those hellish principles reigning, that would presently kindle and flame out into hell-fire, if it were not for God's restraints. There is laid in the very nature of carnal men a foundation for the torments of hell: there are those corrupt principles, in reigning power in them, and in full possession of them, that are seeds of hell-fire.

It is no security to wicked men for one moment, that there are no visible means of death at hand. 'Tis no security to a natural man, that he is now in health, and that he don't see which way he should now immediately go out of the world by any accident, and that there is no visible danger in any respect in his circumstances.

Your wickedness makes you as it were heavy as lead, and to tend downwards with great weight and pressure towards hell; and if God should let you go, you would immediately sink and swiftly descend and plunge into the bottomless gulf, and your healthy constitution, and your own care and prudence, and best contrivance, and all your righteousness, would have no more influence to uphold you and keep you out of hell than a spider's web would have to stop a falling rock.

The observation from the words that I would now insist upon is this, There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God. By

There is no want of power in God to cast wicked men into hell at any moment. Men's hands can't be strong when God rises up: the strongest have no power to resist him, nor can any deliver out of his hands. He

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

On the brutality of the Nazis after the war, "The public reeled at the very evilness of evil.

There is a method in man's wickedness—It grows up by degrees.

Wickedness goes to great lengths and depths where it is not checked and restrained by the free and continuous expression of the indignation of good men.

The most hateful evil in the world is the evil that dresses itself in such a way that men cannot hate it. The men that make wickedness beautiful are the most utterly to be hated.

admired goodness, but was not outraged by wickedness

Ashenden admired goodness, but was not outraged by wickedness," wrote Maugham.

Pues se me parece a los pensamientos del hombre perverso. Parece que somos la intuición del malo, cuando penetra en su conciencia para verse en toda su fealdad.

I do prefer playing baddies because you can push being horrible as far as you want.

My story for the day was a limp sort of evil.

She defines and eliminates problems. She's practical in an evil way.

The age is sorrowfully short of characters of the magnificently villainous vitality of those the Dominator took in olden times: Soulcatcher, the Hanged Man, Nightcrawler, Shapeshifter, the Limper, and such. Those were nastymen of the grand scope, nearly as wild and hairy in their wickedness as the Lady and Dominator themselves.