Quotes by Wickedness Religion is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it as I detest everything that is cruel. Thomas Paine age-of-reasonwickednesssincerely Forever all goodness will be most charming; forever all wickedness will be most odious. Thomas Sprat wickednesscharmingforever The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing called revelation, or revealed religion. Thomas Paine wickednessatheismrace In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover, and wickedness insensibly open, cultivate and improve. Thomas Jefferson wickednessweaknessgovernment There are souls which, crab-like, crawl continually toward darkness, going back in life rather than advancing in it, using what experience they have to increase their deformity, growing worse without ceasing, and becoming steeped more and more thoroughly in an intensifying wickedness. Victor Hugo wickednesssouldarkness We know that it is possible to harness desire to many interests, that evil is one form of a desire, and not the nature of it. Walter Lippmann wickednessevildesire The ignorance of the world leaves one at the mercy of its malice. William Hazlitt wickednessignoranceevil Malice often takes the garb of truth. William Hazlitt wickednessmaliceevil To great evils we submit, we resent little provocations. William Hazlitt wickednessevillittles So enormous, so dreadful, so irremediable did the [slave] trade's wickedness appear that my own mind was completely made up for abolition. Let the consequences be what they would: I from this time determined that I would never rest until I had effected its abolition. William Wilberforce wickednessdeterminedmind Two starving men cannot be twice as hungry as one; but two rascals can be ten times as vicious as one. William Shakespeare wickednessmentwo«12345678
