Quotes About Wickedness

and being as wicked as any man who ever lived, he exploited his advantage to the full.

Virtuous motives, trammelled by inertia and timidity, are no match for armed and resolute wickedness.

She's so small, yet she contains so much evil.

Life's a lot different from what people pretend. That's why pretending is fun. I used to think it was some special wickedness of my own that made such queer things happen. Now I'm beginning to guess that everybody's like that.

No eyes will raise to heaven. The pure will be thought insane and the impure will be honoured as wise. The madman will be believed brave, and the wicked esteemed as good.

I kind of feel like I know the reason that I was born. After 58 years of life, I know why I turned out this way. I know why I treasure life so much. I know why I cannot overlook wickedness. All of these things I experienced weren't for nothing. It was for this moment, right now, that I was born. I became a machine for this moment.

But we do have other choices, my dear. We can turn our backs on all that we know is right, sit ourselves down, fold our hands and allow wickedness to go unchallenged and therefore to prevail. We can run away and hide. Or we can stand our ground and fight inequality to our last heartbeat, knowing that if we perish, we have done all that we could and others will carry on, just as those who came before us have done.

Wickedness may prosper for awhile, but in the long run, he that sets all the knaves at work will pay them.

Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.

Comprendí en los días que pasé con él que el malvado es, en verdad, un ser ruin que no tiene el valor de mirar a la cara a sus víctimas, que prefiere confiar a otros la odiosa tarea de infligir sufrimiento.

Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.

Wicked people will on the day of judgment see all there is to see of Jesus Christ, except His beauty and loveliness

sorrow was always the bedfellow of depravity.

democracy is probably intrinsically the best form of government, not because all men are equal in wisdom and virtue, or because all men are so good and wise that they should be given as much power as possible, but because all men are so foolish and wicked that no one should be given very great power over others.

I said. "What you want is evil and immoral; this is what is destroying the fabric of our society. Mutual spying by friend upon friend is the most insidious wickedness that Ferris Fremont has inflicted on a formerly free people. You can write that down, Miss Kaplan, and put it in my file; better yet, you can paste it on the outside of my file as my official statement to all of you.

Horror does not need the dark, and sometimes a truly evil deed shuns the shadows.

You are a cesspit of moral filth.

It was, I thought, what evil must smell like.

Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency in sin. It is just that negative species of virtue which consists in not doing what is scandalously depraved and wicked. But there is no heart of holy principle in it, any more than there is in the grosser sin.

Horror is what happens when evil overtakes the heart

Job, actually. I read it once a long time ago. It seems more frightening now though. The man who begins to doubt, who shouts out against his God, looking for a response, and who gets one. 'God gave the world to the wicked,' he says at one point, and 'Why should I bother?' at another." "It sounds interesting. But he goes on bothering?" "Yes, that's the incredible thing.

Bad Men Do What Good Men

When an innocent man suddenly dies, God laughs. God gave the world to the wicked. He made all the judges blind, And if God didn't do it, who did? If I smile and try to forget my pain, All my suffering comes back to haunt me; I know that God does hold me guilty. Since I am held guilty, why should I bother? No soap can wash away my sins.

The Bible says a man's heart is desperately wicked, and who can know it? We're all capable of more evil than we realize.