Quotes About Wickedness

The cruel of heart have their own black happiness.

There are souls which, crab-like, crawl continually toward darkness, going back in life rather than advancing in it, using what experience they have to increase their deformity, growing worse without ceasing, and becoming steeped more and more thoroughly in an intensifying wickedness.

Os maus têm uma maneira sinistra de ser felizes.

The happiness of the evil-minded is black.

However wicked men may be, they do not dare openly to appear the enemies of virtue, and when they desire to persecute her they either pretend to believe her false or attribute crimes to her.

The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose; and the consequences are nearly always the same.

A trader can safeguard himself against price volatility but never against the wickedity shown by brokerage houses to make him loss money in stock market for its profit

But you like him already, I can tell. Even though we showed our teeth and were very clear about his being wicked.

He gave himself fully to the penitent life, fasting, praying, confessing his wickedness and execrating himself in public. He became a better man in the small matters of his days, an even better, wiser king in the great matters of state.

Man is almost always as wicked as his needs require.

For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.

Consider little children. There are not many of them not cute and lovable and precious, sweet as whipped honey and butter. So where do all the wicked people come from?

Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.

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.

The way of the Lord is the way of happiness. 'Wickedness never was happiness' [Alma 41:10]. Transgression never was happiness. Sin never was happiness. Disobedience never was happiness. The way of happiness is following the way of the Lord. I believe this with all my heart.

A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.

civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.

Yet, hope—the hope that we, human beings, can be better than we are—dies hard; perhaps one can no longer live if one allows that hope to die. But it is also hard to see what one sees. One sees that most human beings are wretched, and, in one way or another, become wicked: because they are so wretched.

Evil is of the devil.

Iniquity shall be increased above that which now thou see, or that thou hast heard long ago.

It were better that we were not at all, than that we should live still in wickedness, and to suffer, and not to know wherefore.

We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Was ever any wicked man free from the stings of a guilty conscience?

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