Wickedness

There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the art.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Wickedness is its own punishment.

- Francis Quarles Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Tolerating evil leads only to more evil. And when good people stand by and do nothing while wickedness reigns, their communities will be consumed.

- Bob Riley Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.

- John Jay Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.

- Denis Diderot Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

For the wickedness of evil minded thieves, who secretly prowl over this earth, cannot be restrained except by punishment.

- Guru Nanak Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.

- Lucretius Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

People who are stupid always indulge in destructive activities. Because of their wickedness they destroy all that is of use to the people.

- Rig Veda Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

What is their potential for evil what is their potential for wickedness That's the only time that those characters become interesting to watch.

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But when to mischief mortals bend their will, How soon they find fit instruments of ill

- Alexander Pope Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

When may a revival be expected When the wickedness of the wicked grieves and distresses the Christian.

- Billy Sunday Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

- Laurence Sterne Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

He whose wickedness is very great brings himself down to that state where his enemy wishes him to be, as a creeper does with the tree which it surrounds.

- Friedrich Muller Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

- Eric Hoffer Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

On being praised by some wicked men, I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked thing.

- Antisthenes Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

This also is a part of the Church's teaching, that the world was made and took its beginning at a certain time, and is to be destroyed on account of its wickedness.

- Origen Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.

- Niccoló Machiavelli Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.

- Titus Livy Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Everybody should try to free himself from the negative qualities like hatred, jealousy and wickedness.

- Atharva Veda Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Dante, who loved well because he hated, Hated wickedness that hinders loving.

- Robert Browning Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

- James Madison Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.

- Sophocles Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The proposition that we should encourage wickedness and violence by exposing one side of the face to blows because we have been beaten on the other is too great an absurdity.

- Thomas Mellon Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The sun also shines on the wicked.

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.

- D.H. Lawrence Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes