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Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.
The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness.
The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.
It is privilege that causes evil in the world, not wickedness, and not men.
Maybe violent wickedness can be decapitated, but stupidity has too many heads.
Present-Day Wickedness, Apostasy and Modern Civilization Cannot Prevent Revival.
What has this unfeeling age of ours left untried, what wickedness has it shunned?
Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.
Sin leads to wickedness and to hearts that become hardened to things of the Spirit.
Forever all goodness will be most charming; forever all wickedness will be most odious.
Almost all the moral good which is left among us is the apparent effect of physical evil.
If you are a guillotine producer, watch out your head; because wickedness is a boomerang.
I prefer to be a villainess. There's something a bit more delicious about their wickedness.
The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried.
If you had better sense you’d have learned by now that nothing thrives so well as wickedness
More harm is done by fools through foolishness than is done by evil-doers through wickedness.
Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will.
He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance.
Wickedness frames the engines of her own torment. She is a wonderful artisan of a miserable life.
There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.
I have heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold wickedness of the human heart.
Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me.
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
In wickedness of pride is lost the light to understand how little grace is earned and how much given.
The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
Crimes are more often committed out of fear than wickedness. People live frightened, desperate lives.
Two starving men cannot be twice as hungry as one; but two rascals can be ten times as vicious as one.
Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.
Great God, have pity on the wicked, for thou didst everything for the good, when thou madest them good!
The form of godliness may exist with secret and with open wickedness, but the power of godliness cannot.
It is the evil that lies in ourselves that is ever least tolerant of the evil that dwells within others.
War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
Thou art beautiful because God created thee, but thou art a slave to sin... wickedness has made you ugly.
And when your soul becometh great, then doth it become haughty, and in your sublimity there is wickedness.
. . . it seems to me certain that more people are killed out of righteous stupidity than out of wickedness.
He who seeks forgiveness of his sins loves humility, but if he condemns another he seals his own wickedness.
Make people happy and there will not be half the quarreling, or a tenth part of the wickedness there now is.
The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.
My own feeling is that if adultery is wickedness then so is food. Both make me feel so much better afterward.
Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop; the gut expanded to take in more and more.
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness.
It is not difficult to avoid death. It is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
Pride, if not the origin, is the medium of all wickedness-the atmosphere without which it would instantly die away.
Do not become angry and furious.... for those two emotions lead to wickedness, and wickedness leads to the Hellfire.
Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.
How ridiculous not to flee from one's own wickedness, which is possible, yet endeavor to flee from another's which is not.
There is this of good in real evils; they deliver us, while they last, from the petty despotism of all that were imaginary.