#wickedness

When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene. ↗

— Jane Austen

#nature #night #sorrow #sublime #wickedness

Evil people are those who knew they're evil, but refused to do anything about it. ↗

— Jawe Querimit

#wicked-people #wickedness #men

money,if it does not bring you happiness,it will atleast help you be miserable in comfort ↗

— Helen Gurley Brown

#wickedness #money

In wickedness of pride is lost the light to understand how little grace is earned and how much given. ↗

— Robert Hunter

#given #grace #how #light #little

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason. ↗

— James Madison

#folly #hoped #much #progress #reason

According to this way of arguing, there will be no true principles in the world; for there are none but what may be wrested and perverted to serve bad purposes, either through the weakness or wickedness of men. ↗

— Jonathan Mayhew

#arguing #bad #either #his way #may

Wickedness is its own punishment. ↗

— Francis Quarles

#punishment #wickedness

Tolerating evil leads only to more evil. And when good people stand by and do nothing while wickedness reigns, their communities will be consumed. ↗

— Bob Riley

#consumed #evil #good #good people #leads

In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil. ↗

— Anna Jameson

#begins #either #ends #evil #fanaticism

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#doctor #lawyer #mankind #sees #stupidity