| "I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest." »Alexandre Dumas |
| "It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it" »L. M. Montgomery |
| "God bears with the wicked, but not forever." »Miguel de Cervantes |
| "He who spares the wicked injures the good." »Seneca |
| "Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles." »Charlie Chaplin |
| "The fools in this world make about as much trouble as the wicked do." »Josh Billings |
| "We are more wicked together than separately. If you are forced to be in a crowd, then most of all you should withdraw into yourself." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
| "All things come alike to all there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked." »Ecclesiastes 92 Bible |
| "By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. Open, locks, Whoever knocks" »William Shakespeare |
| "We will have no truce or parlay with you Hitler, or the grisly gang who work your wicked will. You do your worst -- and we will do our best." »Winston Churchill |
| "In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying." »Bertrand Russell |
| "We shall have to repent in this generation , not so much for the evil deeds of the wicked people, but for the appalling silence of the good people." »Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| "The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire |
| "Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency in sin. It is just that negative species of virtue which consists in not doing what is scandalously depraved and wicked. But there is no heart of holy principle in it, any more than there is in the grosser sin." »Horace Bushnell |
| "But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness -- each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked -- each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity." »Herbert Butterfield |
| "Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured." »Indian Proverb |
| "Angels and ministers of grace defend us.Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damned,Bring with thee airs from heaven, or blasts from hell,Be thy intents wicked, or charitable,Thou com'st in such a questionable shape,That I will speak to thee." »William Shakespeare |
| "The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'" »Lao Tzu |
| "Without Christ, sciences in every department are vain....The man who knows not God is vain, though he should be conversant with every branch of learning. Nay more, we may affirm this too with truth, that these choice gifts of God -- expertness of mind, acuteness of judgment, liberal sciences, and acquaintance with languages, are in a manner profaned in every instance in which they fall to the lot of wicked men." »John Calvin |
| "Oh, thou hast a damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint. Thou hast done much harm upon me Hal, God forgive thee for it. Before I knew thee Hal, I knew nothing, and now am I, if a man should speak truly, little better than one of the wicked." »William Shakespeare |
| "What treaty have the Sioux made with the white man that we have broken Not one. What treaty have the white man ever made with us that they have kept Not one. When I was a boy the Sioux owned the world the sun rose and set on their land they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today Who slew them Where are our lands Who owns them....What law have I broken Is it wrong for me to love my own Is it wicked for me because my skin is red Because I am a Sioux because I was born where my father lived because I would die for my people and my country" »Sitting Bull |
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