No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others. — Juvenal
Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give. — George Bernard Shaw
Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love. — Aristotle
Every wicked man is in ignorance as to what he ought to do, and from what to abstain, and it is because of error such as this that men become unjust and, in a word, wicked. — Aristotle
A bad man is worse when he pretends to be a saint. — Francis Bacon
A man of bad character punishes his own soul. — Al-Ghazali
The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous. — Winston Churchill
There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
To the wicked, everything serves as pretext. — Voltaire
The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice. — John Rawls
I have the capacity of being more wicked than any example that man could set me. — James C. Maxwell
He who does evil, is never short of an excuse. — Italian Proverbs
Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives. — Abu Bakr
Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate. — Ralph Steadman
Wretched are those who are vindictive and spiteful. — Pope Francis
The power of evil men lives on the cowardice of the good. — John Bosco
One ungrateful man does an injury to all who stand in need of aid. — Publilius Syrus
Wicked Man Image Quotes
Do not correct a fool or he will hate you. Correct a wise man and he will appreciate you.
Wicked Person Quotes
A lot of people think that Christianity is you doing all the righteous things you hate and avoiding all the wicked things you love in order to go to Heaven. No, that's a lost man with religion. A Christian is a person whose heart has been changed; they have new affections. — Paul Washer
If a person seems wicked, do not cast him away. Awaken him with your words, elevate him with your deeds, repay his injury with your kindness. Do not cast him away; cast away his wickedness. — Lao Tzu
It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things. — Lawrence G. Lovasik
Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.
It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane (or wicked, but I'd rather not consider that). — Richard Dawkins
Judas Iscariot was not a greatly wicked person, just a common money-lover, and like most money-lovers, he did not understand Christ. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it. — George Washington
The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute. The man who does not ask, is a fool for life.
Nay, all laws must fall, human societies that subsist by them be dissolved, and all innocent persons be exposed to the violence of the most wicked, if men might not justly defend themselves against injustice by their own natural right, when the ways prescribed by publick authority cannot be taken. — Algernon Sidney
Heaven: A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound on yours. — Ambrose Bierce
I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else. — Oscar Wilde
A wicked person, swayed by evil motives and evil actions, is described as a demon. — Sathya Sai Baba
Evil Man Quotes
The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition. — Carl Jung
As long as I breathe I hope. As long as I breathe I shall fight for the future, that radiant future, in which man, strong and beautiful, will become master of the drifting stream of his history and will direct it towards the boundless horizons of beauty, joy and happiness! — Leon Trotsky
J. Edgar Hoover: When morals decline and good men do nothing, evil flourishes. A society unwilling to learn from past is doomed. We must never forget our history. — J. Edgar Hoover
Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.
You assist an administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil administration never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good man will therefore resist an evil system or administration with his whole soul. — Mahatma Gandhi
I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
In Tanganyika we believe that only evil, Godless men would
make the color of a mans skin the criteria for granting him civil
rights. — Julius Nyerere
A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything.
Every man should view himself as equally balanced: half good and half evil. Likewise, he should see the entire world as half good and half evil.... With a single good deed he will tip the scales for himself, and for the entire world, to the side of good. — Maimonides
When evil is allowed to compete with good, evil has an emotional populist appeal that wins out unless good men and women stand as a vanguard against abuse. — Hannah Arendt
An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it. — Jeff Cooper
Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live. — Socrates
Wicked World Quotes
The World is not ruined by the wickedness of the wicked, but by the weakness of the good. — Napoleon Bonaparte
I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying. — Charlie Chaplin
A period recourse into the wilds is not a retreat into secret silent sanctums to escape a wicked world, it is to take breath amid effort to forge a better world. — Benton MacKaye
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise man grows it under his feet.
The greatest enemy of hunger for God is not poison but apple pie. It is not the banquet of the wicked that dulls our appetite for heaven, but endless nibbling at the table of the world. It is not the X-rated video, but the prime-time dribble of triviality we drink in every night. — John Piper
You need Power, only when you want to do something harmful otherwise Love is enough to get everything done. — Charlie Chaplin
Words of comfort skillfully administered are the oldest therapy known to man.
If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends. — Charlotte Bronte
Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can and does not want to.
If he wants to, but cannot, he is impotent.
If he can, but does not want to, he is wicked.
If, as they say, God can abolish evil, and God really wants to do it, why is there evil in the world? — Epicurus
Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism. — Barbara Tuchman
Oh, what a wicked world it is that drives a man to sin. — Mario Puzo
Bad Man Quotes
Although some people felt Adolf Hitler was bad, he was a great man and a real conqueror whose name would never be forgotten. — Idi Amin
If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you. — Genghis Khan
Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad... but because man is by nature more individualistic than social. — Thomas Hobbes
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't. — William Faulkner
Freedom is what we all seek, but it's what we do with that freedom that ultimately defines our character. In the end, a man's character cements his fate, good or bad. — Sonny Barger
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
I love a good man outside the law, just as much as I hate a bad man inside the law. — Woody Guthrie
Jesus did not come into the world to make bad men good. He came into the world to make dead men live! — Leonard Ravenhill
To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both. — St. Catherine of Siena
Narcissus turned and scowled at Leo. “Who are you?” “I’m the Super-sized McShizzle, man!” Leo said. “I’m Leo Valdez, bad boy supreme. And the ladies love a bad boy. — Rick Riordan
The Bible warns us clearly that we must not attack men of God no matter how sinful they may have become or wicked in our eyes. — Benny Hinn
What is reprehensible is that while leading good lives themselves and abhorring those of wicked men, some, fearing to offend, shut their eyes to evil deeds instead of condemning them and pointing out their malice. — Saint Augustine
Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
The reason why wicked men and devils hate God is, because they see Him in relation to themselves. Their hearts rise up in rebellion, because they see Him opposed to their selfishness. — Charles Grandison Finney
Without the lord to shield you and guide you, you gonna fade away. Jah is your shield and your guide. The wicked man gotta turn aside. No need to fear no wicked guide. Rastafari protect your life! — Sizzla
I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first. — Robert Louis Stevenson
If you want to test a man’s character give him power.
What arouses the indignation of the honest satirist is not, unless the man is a prig, the fact that people in positions of power or influence behave idiotically, or even that they behave wickedly. It is that they conspire successfully to impose upon the public a picture of themselves as so very sagacious, honest and well-intentioned. — Claud Cockburn
Be afraid of a dignified man when he is hungry and a wicked man when his belly is full. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
Lying is a false significance of speech, with a will to deceive, which cannot be cured but by shame and reason; it is a monstrous and wicked evil, that filthily depraved and defileth the tongue of man. — Jon Jones
I am a bad, wicked man, but I am practicing moral self-purification; I don't eat meat any more, I now eat rice cutlets. — Vladimir Lenin
Little boldness is needed to assail the opinions and practices of notoriously wicked men; but to rebuke great and good men for their conduct, and to impeach their discernment, is the highest effort of moral courage. — William Lloyd Garrison
No man treats a motorcar as foolishly as he treats another human being. When the car will not go, he does not attribute its annoying behavior to sin; he does not say, 'You are a wicked motorcar, and I shall not give you any more petrol until you go.' He attempts to find out what is wrong and to set it right. — Bertrand Russell
Think as I think," said a man, "or you are abominably wicked; you are a toad." And after I thought of it, I said, "I will, then, be a toad. — Stephen Crane
For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous. — Queen Victoria
Men are like pillow-cases. The colour of one may be red, that of another blue, and that of the third black; but all contain the same cotton within. So it is with man; one is beautiful, another is ugly, a third holy, and a fourth wicked; but the Divine Being dwells in them all. — Ramakrishna
My own great-grandfather, who said simply enough, "No wicked man could write such a book as this; and no good man would write it unless it were true and he were commanded of God to do so. — Jeffrey R. Holland
O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked. — T. S. Eliot
... when death has been brought upon a saint, we ought not to think that an evil has happened to him but a thing indifferent; which is an evil to a wicked man, while to the good it is rest and freedom from evils. 'For death is rest to a man whose way is hidden' (Job 3:23 LXX). And so a good man does not suffer any loss from it. — John Cassian
A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example. — Niccolo Machiavelli
Grandpappy told my pappy, back in my day son, a man had to answer for the wicked he done. Take all the rope in Texas, find a tall oak tree, round up all the bad boys, and hang them in the streets for all the people to see. — Toby Keith
The ladies men admire, I've heard, Would shudder at a wicked word. Their candle gives a single light, They'd rather stay at home at night. They do not keep awake 'till three, Nor read erotic poetry. They never sanction the impure, Nor recognize an overture. They shrink from powders and from paints... So far I've had no complaints. — Dorothy Parker
Destroy the man of wicked thoughts, Like a bamboo-tree with its fruit. — Buddha
A righteous man hates lying, But a wicked man is loathsome and comes to shame. — Solomon
Thus, a godly man wonders at his cross that it is not more, a wicked man wonders his cross is so much. — Jeremiah Burroughs
The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life. — Sigmund Freud
There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it. — Chanakya
An irreligious man is not one who denies the gods of the majority, but one who applies to the gods the opinions of the majority. For what most men say about the gods are not ideas derived from sensation, but false opinions, according to which the greatest evils come to the wicked, and the greatest blessings come to the good from the gods. — Epicurus
If a wicked man seems to have peace at death, it is not from the knowledge of his happiness, but from the ignorance of his danger. — Thomas Watson
Sin in a wicked man is like poison in a serpent; it is in its natural place. — Thomas Brooks
Only love of a good woman will make a man question every choice, every action. Only love makes a warrior hesitate for fear that his lady will find him cruel. Only love makes a man both the best he will ever be, and the weakest. Sometimes all in the same moment. -Wicked — Laurell K. Hamilton
The disappointed man turns his thoughts toward a state of existence where his wiser desires may be fixed with the certainty of faith; the successful man feels that the objects which he has ardently pursued fail to satisfy the cravings of an immortal spirit; the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness, that he may save his soul alive. — Robert Southey
One man may read the Bhagavata by the light of a lamp, and another may commit a forgery by that very light; but the lamp is unaffected. The sun sheds its light on the wicked as well as on the virtuous. — Ramakrishna
There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God — Jonathan Edwards
Better have men reproach you for being good, than have God damn you for being wicked. Be not laughed out of your religion. If a lame man laugh at you for walking upright, will you therefore limp? — Thomas Watson
An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud. — Aristophanes
An implicit confession is almost as bad as an implicit faith; wicked men commonly confess their sins by wholesale, We are all sinners; but the true penitent confesses his sins by retail. — Thomas Brooks
When a man has calamity upon calamity the world generally concludes that he must be a very wicked man to deserve them. Perhaps the world is right; but it is also just possible that the world ... may be wrong. — Amelia Barr
When the supreme magistrate will not execute the judgment of the Lord, those who made him supreme magistrate, under God, who have under God, sovereighn liberty to dispose of crowns and kingdoms, are to execute the judgment of the Lord, when wicked men make the law of God of none effect. — Samuel Rutherford
Among so many conflicting ideas and so many different perspectives, the honest man is confused and distressed and the skeptic becomes wicked ... Since one must take sides, one might as well choose the side that is victorious, the side which devastates, loots, and burns. Considering the alternative, it is better to eat than to be eaten. — Napoleon Bonaparte
In my opinion, the unjust man whose tongue is full of glozing rhetoric, merits the heaviest punishment; vaunting that he can with his tongue gloze over injustice, he dares to act wickedly, yet he is not over-wise. — Euripides
The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but- what is worse - the slave of as many masters as he has vices. — Saint Augustine
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