Quotes by Wickedness Almost all the moral good which is left among us is the apparent effect of physical evil. Samuel Johnson wickednessmoralevil There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds. Seneca the Younger wickednesspunishmentdeeds The way to wickedness is always through wickedness. Seneca the Younger wickednessevilway It is not difficult to avoid death. It is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death. Socrates wickednessrunningdeath I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there. Solomon wickednesssawslaw He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance. Socrates wickednessignoranceevil Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness. Sophocles wickednessfoolishness Strictly speaking, one should not even rightly compare virginity to marriage because you cannot make a comparison between two things if one is good and the other evil. St. Jerome wickednesseviltwo Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom. St. Jerome venomwickednessevil Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot. Sophocles wickednesswish-to-dieevil Oh, how cowardly is wickedness always! Statius wickednesscowardly Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness. Stephen Fry wickednessgardentree Are people born wicked, or is wickedness trust upon them? Stephen Schwartz wickednesswickedpeople Do not become angry and furious.... Sufyan al-Thawri wickednessemotiontwo So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist. T. S. Eliot wickednessevilway Depend on it, that from every condition of distress or evil there is a great reaction, and the greater the evil or distress, the greater the reaction. If we do not get a reaction quick, we will get it long when it does come. Theodore Dreiser wickednessreactionsevil The Christian who will sit with sealed lips when his Master is assailed, when religion is attacked, when wickedness is broached and defended, when truth is denounced, is a denier of his Lord, as guilty as Simon Peter in Pilate's hall. Theodore L. Cuyler wickednesslipschristian The greatest historian should also be a great moralist. It is no proof of impartiality to treat wickedness and goodness on the same level. Theodore Roosevelt wickednesslevelshistory Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is. Thomas Carlyle wickednessselfevil Life is as if you were traveling a ridge crest. You have the gulf of inefficiency on one side and the gulf of wickedness on the other, and it helps not to have avoided one gulf if you fall into the other. Theodore Roosevelt wickednesssidesfall«12345678»
