Quotes About Vileness

#1. Satire must not be a kind of superfluous ill will, but ill will from a higher point of view. Ridiculous man, divine God. Or else, hatred against the bogged-down vileness of average man as against the possible heights that humanity might attain.

Paul Klee

#2. I was deprived of the ability to feel so I wouldn't be able to feel how dreadfully vile is that vileness, so I wouldn't retreat from it, wouldn't run horror-stricken from it. Yes, I was stripped of feelings, But not utterly. Whoever did it made a botch of it, Yen.

Andrzej Sapkowski

#3. Maybe someone will know I didn't weave crowns to draw blood; that I faught against mockery;
that I did fill the high tide of my soul with truth.
I repaid vileness with doves.

Pablo Neruda

#4. Growing up in Michigan, I can't think of anything so explicitly communicated to me in my whole education experience as the vileness of in-your-face racism.

Kevin DeYoung

#5. For (such is our innate pride) we always seem to ourselves just, and upright, and wise, and holy, until we are convinced, by clear evidence, of our injustice, vileness, folly, and impurity.

John Calvin

#6. To me, every dirty act was simply a sacrament of sin, a passionately religious protest against Christianity, which was for me the symbol of all vileness, meanness, treachery, falsehood and oppression.

Aleister Crowley

#7. Nobody can protect anybody else from vileness. Or from pain. All you can do is not let it break you in half and keep on going until you get to the other side.

Peter Straub

#8. Macbeth's deed is done in horror, and without the faintest desire or sense of glory- done, one may almost say, as if it were an appalling duty; the instant it is finished, its futility is revealed to Macbeth as clearly as its vileness had been revealed beforehand

A. C. Bradley

#9. Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.

Immanuel Kant

#10. The nearer you take anything to the light, the darker its spots will appear; and the nearer you live to God, the more you will see your own utter vileness.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#11. The enormous waste of energy that has deliberately been expended on vileness.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#12. She'll come, if not today, then tomorrow, but she'll find me. That's the cursed romanticism of all these pure hearts! Oh the vileness, oh the stupidity, oh the narrowness, of these rotten, sentimental souls

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#13. Let all the green leaves be mine
as long as the trees define
shades created by their limbs
for the soil made with victims
of atrocity's vileness
to redeem the fragileness

Munia Khan

#14. A murderer is less loathsome to us than a spy. The murderer may have acted on a sudden mad impulse; he may be penitent and amend; but a spy is always a spy, night and day, in bed, at table, as he walks abroad; his vileness pervades every moment of his life

Honore De Balzac

#15. good alone
Is good without a name, vileness is so

William Shakespeare

#16. Sin is not only a series of actions, it is also an attitude that ignores the law of God. But it is even more than a rebellious attitude. Sin is a state of heart, a condition of our inmost being. It is a state of corruption, of vileness, yes, even of filthiness in God's sight.

Jerry Bridges

#17. Oh, what a vileness human beauty is; corroding, corrupting everything it touches.

Euripides

#18. Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.

Bertolt Brecht

#19. Wanted, a man "who, no stunted ascetic, is full of life and fire, but whose passions are trained to heed a strong will, the servant of a tender conscience; who has learned to love all beauty, whether of nature or of art, to hate all vileness, and to respect others as himself.

Brett McKay

#20. Such a brute should underneath all his braggart tricks, his viciousness, his vileness, be a coward. But I am convinced that he was not. Because even cowardice requires a certain degree of sensitivity, and a certain value for life.

Warren Eyster

#21. Would he purge his soul from vileness
And attain to light and worth,
He must turn and cling for ever,
To his ancient Mother Earth.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#22. True love is an electric shock with someone else in control of the switch.

Kelly Moran

#23. Virtues that are not practiced die. Resilience that is not practiced weakens.

Eric Greitens

#24. But Homer's words are as costly and admirable to Homer, as Agamemnon's victories are to Agamemnon

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#25. I have read some of [the Lisbon Treaty] but not all of it.

Caroline Flint

#26. The vile are trampled beneath the feet of other pigs.

Bryant McGill

#27. The demise of the American empire will be no more regretted than the demise of the Soviet empire.

Chalmers Johnson

#28. In August 2012, the international community should have been far more determined in dealing with the Bashar Assad regime.

Francois Hollande

#29. When Richard M. Nixon resigned and Ford became the 38th president of the United States, the Watergate Special Prosecutor's Office, of which I was a member, was preparing for the criminal trials of Nixon's top aides - H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman and John Mitchell.

Richard Ben-Veniste

#30. I concluded all the same from this first evening that his [Morel's] must be a vile nature, that he would not shrink from any act of servility if the need arose, and was incapable of gratitude. In which he resembled the majority of mankind.

Marcel Proust