Quotes About Wickedness

Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.

The Devil, of course, must have been or must be a very charming person.

The curious crime, the fineFelicity and flower of wickedness.

the vices and wickedness of the Secular Era, some of which still lingered, he said, in the cities of the East – irreligiosity, scepticism, occultism, depravity. And I thought of the ideas I had so casually imbibed from Julian and (indirectly) from Sam, some of which I had even begun to believe: Einsteinism, Darwinism, space travel …

From the subjective perspective, he may seem cruel, even wicked. But the glory of the man is to be found in the objective perspective.

I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he could be wicked and wouldn't.

Satirize wickedness if you must--but pity weakness.

He was one of your wicked, fascinating men. After he got married he left off being fascinating and just kept on being wicked.

I wouldn't marry anyone who was really wicked. But I think I'd like it if he could be wicked, and wouldn't.

It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it? ------------------------- You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair ------------------------- "Kindred spirits alone do not change with the changing years.

Oh, I wouldn't have minded its being heretical. I can stand wickedness, but I can't stand foolishness

But Jasmine knew that everyone was evil, down deep when you scrape the skin away. Inside their heads everyone hunted, everyone killed, everyone was a monster.

SOME people are just born evil. No twisted childhood trauma, no abusive father, or alcoholic mother, just plain God-awful mean.

Everybody carried a little evil in them, Momma once told me. Madam Lockton had more than her share. The poison had eaten holes through her soul and made room for vermin to nest inside her.

Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness.

God's goodness is not a cosmic force but a specific act of compassion. We do not know it as it is but as it happens. To mention an example, "Rabbi Meir said: When a human being suffers what does the Shechinah say? My head is too heavy for Me; My arm is too heavy for Me. And if God is so grieved over the blood of the wicked that is shed, how much more so over the blood of the righteous.

While the people retain their virtue, and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government, in the short space of four years.

No gratitude from the wicked.

Aunque a los malvados se les castigue severamente, difícilmente cambian su naturaleza desviada.

Kindness is thrown away upon the evil.

When I pointed out this fallacy in her thought process, however, all she said was, "Just do it," only not the way they say it in Nike ads. She said it the way the Wicked Witch of the West said it to the winged monkeys when she sent them out to kill Dorothy and her little dog, too.

Laugh hard at the absurdly evil.

the choices people make are moral choices; that is, people are held accountable by God for the choices they make. The actions of Judas, Herod, and Pilate were wicked acts even though done under the sovereign appointment of God.

All things truly wicked start from innocence.