Quotes with wickedness

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  • John Jay Chapman 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 Chapman
    American author (1862 - 1933)
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  • Marquis de Sade For mortal men there is but one hell, and that is the folly and wickedness and spite of his fellows; but once his life is over, there's an end to it: his annihilation is final and entire, of him nothing survives.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • A. J. P. Taylor Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.
    A. J. P. Taylor
    British historian (1906 - 1990)
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  • Aldous Huxley I hate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Benjamin Franklin If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Anna Jameson In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.
    Anna Jameson
    Anglo-Irish art historian (1794 - 1860)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Comte De Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.
    Comte De Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
    French author, poet (1846 - 1870)
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  • Beverley Nichols Most of us rather like our cats to have a streak of wickedness. I should not feel quite easy in the company of any cat that walked about the house with a saintly expression.
    Beverley Nichols
    English playwright, journalist and composer (1898 - 1983)
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  • Titus Livy No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.
    Titus Livy
    Roman historian (59 - 17)
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  • Joseph Conrad The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The world loves a spice of wickedness.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Francis Beaumont There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.
    Francis Beaumont
    English writer and poet (1584 - 1616)
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  • Francis Beaumont There is method in man's wickedness, it grows up by degrees,
    A King and No King 5, 4
    Francis Beaumont
    English writer and poet (1584 - 1616)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Confucius To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Bob Riley 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
    American politician (1944 - )
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  • Billy Sunday When may a revival be expected? When the wickedness of the wicked grieves and distresses the Christian.
    Billy Sunday
    American athlete and evangelist (1862 - 1935)
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