best quotations about
Wickedness |
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Quotations
 | The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people meaner. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 10 likes |
 | If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another. — Epicurus, 341-270 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 10 likes |
 | For only in destroying I find ease To my relentless thoughts. — John Milton, 1608-1674, English poet 9 likes |
 | The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 8 likes |
 | For an evil-minded man everything is a pretext. — Voltaire, 1694-1778, French philosopher & writer 8 likes |
 | If men are so wicked with religion, what would they be if without it? — Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, American politician & writer 6 likes |
 | The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity. — Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German philosopher 6 likes |
 | Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything. — Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, English writer 5 likes |
 | Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free. — Joseph De Maistre, 1753-1821, Savoyard diplomat & philosopher 5 likes |
 | To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty, human, all-too-human principle which even the apes might subscribe. — Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher 5 likes |
 | The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring. — Victor Hugo, 1802-1885, French writer 4 likes |
 | This is the stuff we're made of, half indifference and half malice. — José Saramago, 1922-2010, Portuguese writer [Nobel 1998] 4 likes |
 | No man becomes bad all at once. — Juvenal, 1st-2nd cent. AD, Roman satiric poet 3 likes |
 | Heaven, to keep its beauty, cast them out, but even Hell itself would not receive them for fear the wicked there might glory over them. — Dante, 1265-1321, Italian poet 3 likes |
 | In most cases, people, even wicked people, are far more naive and simple-hearted than one generally assumes. And so are we. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1821-1881, Russian writer 2 likes |
 | One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them. |
 | The mischief of children is seldom actuated by malice; that of grown-up people always is. |
 | Do not rejoice in his defeat, you men. For though the world has stood up and stopped the bastard, the bitch that bore him is in heat again. |
 | I believe you find life such a problem because you think there are good people and bad people. You're wrong, of course. There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides. |
| People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked. |
 | We have two kinds of happiness: the ones we get without harming anyone, and the ones we get by stabbing someone. |
 | This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten. |
 | You don't make good literature with good feelings. So the Bible, what a masterpiece! |
 | I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest. |
 | It is silly to go on pretending that under the skin we are brothers. The truth is more likely that under the skin we are all cannibals, assassins, traitors, liars and hypocrites. |
 | The earth has become too small for the wickedness of people. — Maurice Chapelan, 1906-1992, French author of maxims & journalist |
 | To treat another human being as if they’re expendable is the very definition of evil. — Marty Rubin, 1930-1994, Canadian gay activist, author & journalist |
 | A bad man is worse when he pretends to be a saint. |
 | The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain. |
 | A mother-in-law dies only when another devil is needed in hell. |
 | The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. |
 | Life is a warfare against the malice of others. |
Latin Quotes
| No bad man is happy. Nemo malus felix — Juvenal, 1st-2nd cent. AD, Roman satiric poet 28 likes |
Quotes in Verse
 | Evil is unspectacular and always human, And shares our bed and eats at our own table. |
Funny Quotes
 | Witch, n. (1) An ugly and repulsive old woman, in a wicked league with the devil. (2) A beautiful and attractive young woman, in wickedness a league beyond the devil. — Ambrose Bierce, 1842–1914, American writer 7 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | Most people are bad. Οι πλείστοι άνθρωποι κακοί. — Bias of Priene, 625-540 BC, one of the 7 sages of Ancient Greece 42 likes |
 | Since life is short, don’t make it long with bad deeds. Τον βίον μη, τω χρόνω βραχύν όντα, πράγμασιν κακοίς μακρόν ποιείν. — Thales of Miletus, 643-548 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 14 likes |
 | Wickedness and injustice are intentional. Εν τη προαιρέσει η μοχθηρία και το αδικείν. — Aristotle, 384-322 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 8 likes |
 | Be afraid of slandering even if it’s not true. Ευλαβού τας διαβολάς καν ψευδείς ώσιν. — Isokrates, 436-338 BC, Ancient Greek rhetorician 6 likes |
| Of moral states to be avoided there are three kinds: malice, incontinence, bestiality. Των περί τα ήθη φευκτών τρία εστίν είδη: κακία, ακρασία, θηριότης. — Aristotle, 384-322 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 5 likes |
 | A wicked woman is a depository of disasters. Θησαυρός εστι των κακών κακή γυνή. — Menander, 4th cent. BC, Ancient Greek dramatist (New Comedy) 5 likes |
