Wickedness Of Man Quotes

#1. Oh, the wickedness of man is very great," said Villefort, "since it surpasses the goodness of God.

Alexandre Dumas

#2. On the other side of the rock, some words were carved: AND GOD SAW THAT THE WICKEDNESS OF MAN WAS GREAT IN THE EARTH

Tommy Wallach

#3. By Genesis 6:5, we see that "the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually." The fear of God was suppressed by man's thirst for the ungodly. How does Yahweh respond to this rebellion? He sends a flood.

Chris Poblete

#4. It is possible that these may all be insufficient to control the caprice and wickedness of man. But are they not all that government will admit, and all that human prudence can devise?

James Madison

#5. There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.

Francis Beaumont

#6. In the commission of evil, fear no man so much as thyself; another is but one witness against thee, thou art a thousand; another thou mayest avoid, thyself thou canst not. Wickedness is its own punishment.

Francis Quarles

#7. If I'm not here you can still talk to me. You can talk to me and I'll talk to you. You'll see.

Cormac McCarthy

#8. The holy man, though he be distressed, does not eat food mixed with wickedness. The lion, though hungry, will not eat what is unclean.

Sakya Pandita

#9. I don't think we are here for anything. We're just products of evolution. You can say, "Gee, your life must be pretty bleak if you don't think there's a purpose." But I'm anticipating a good lunch.

James D. Watson

#10. He gave himself fully to the penitent life, fasting, praying, confessing his wickedness and execrating himself in public. He became a better man in the small matters of his days, an even better, wiser king in the great matters of state.

Geraldine Brooks

#11. But all the wickedness in the world which man may do or think is no more to the mercy of God than a live coal dropped in the sea.

William Langland

#12. If weakness may excuse, What murderer, what traitor, parricide, Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it? All wickedness is weakness; that plea, therefore, With God or man will gain thee no remission.

John Milton

#13. One man's wickedness may easily become all men's curse.

Publilius Syrus

#14. Alas! I had not then learned the measure of "man's inhumanity to man," nor to what limitless extent of wickedness he will go for the love of gain

Solomon Northup

#15. We live among wicked man through our own wickedness. One thing alone can bring us peace, an agreement to treat one another with kindness.

Seneca.

#16. I read the best works of some of the best satirists, and indeed best writers from the beginning of the Victorian era to about the 1960s. If you want to be a blacksmith, you go and watch the blacksmith working, and you work out what the blacksmith does.

Terry Pratchett

#17. No man is born without faults.

Horace

#18. If we are to be happy, decent and secure of our souls: drink some kind of fermented liquor with one's food; go on the water from time to time; dance on occasions, and sing in a chorus ...

Hilaire Belloc

#19. If you're trying to force the story to be a straight up romance, it's going to be weird for you.

Karen Marie Moning

#20. In writing poetry, all of one's attention is focused on some inner voice.

Li-Young Lee

#21. The Philosopher, too, says of the wicked (Ethic. ix, 4) that "their soul is divided against itself ... one part pulls this way, another that"; and afterwards he concludes, saying: "If wickedness makes a man so miserable, he should strain every nerve to avoid vice.

Thomas Aquinas

#22. He who corrects an arrogant man earns insult; and he who reproves a wicked man incurs opprobrium.

Anonymous

#23. Before crime is committed conscience must be corrupted, and every bad man who succeeds in reaching a high point of wickedness begins with this.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#24. I'm more than open to hope, but I think men and women have a difficult time dealing with each other and often take the low road.

Neil LaBute

#25. Republicans will not be reduced to being the tax collectors for the Obama economy.

Mitch McConnell

#26. In wickedness the haughty man and the weakling meet. But they misunderstand one another. I know you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#27. But if you don't understand that story is character and not just idea, you will not be able to breathe life into even the most intriguing flash of inspiration.

Elizabeth George

#28. The small man thinks that small acts of goodness are of no benefit, and does not do them; and that small deeds of evil do no harm, and does not refrain from them. Hence, his wickedness becomes so great that it cannot be concealed, and his guilt so great that it cannot be pardoned.

Confucius

#29. I spend so much time in fear of going broke, and I never have been even remotely close to going broke.

Ben Stein

#30. Any action done with beauty and purity, and in complete harmony of body, mind and soul, is Art.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#31. There is in all visible things - a hidden wholeness.

Thomas Merton

#32. It is a man's own dishonesty, his crimes, his wickedness, and boldness, that takes away from him soundness of mind; these are the furies, these the flames and firebrands, of the wicked.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#33. A man who piously shuts himself up to meditate upon the sin of wickedness and to keep it fresh in his mind joins a brotherhood of awful examples.

Ambrose Bierce

#34. Conflict, not progress, is the word that defines man's path from darkness into light. No holiness is won by any other means than this, that wickedness should be slain day by day, and hour by hour.

Alexander MacLaren

#35. 4 For you are not a God who delights in wickedness; evil may not dwell with you. 5 The boastful shall not stand before your eyes; you hate all evildoers. 6 You destroy those who speak lies; the LORD abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

Anonymous

#36. My absolute favorite part of Comic-Con is seeing, like, a 'Mass Effect' guy hanging out with a 'Sailor Moon,' and they're just having a great time.

Joss Whedon

#37. When a mean wretch cannot vie with another in virtue, out of his wickedness he begins to slander. The abject envious wretch will slander the virtuous man when absent, but when brought face to face his loquacious tongue becomes dumb.

Saadi

#38. A very ridiculous thing it is, that any man should dispense with vice and wickedness in himself, which is in his power to restrain; and should go about to suppress it in others, which is altogether impossible.

Marcus Aurelius

#39. You can't reduce an actual human being; you're just writing! You're not doing anything to another person.

Vivian Gornick