#wick

It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#act #always #arranges #evil #free

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

If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable. ↗

— Horace Mann

#also #call #evil #how #inevitable

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

With two leftover husbands to account for, my wicked soul has just about shriveled and died. ↗

— Mercedes McCambridge

#account #died #husbands #just #leftover

I met Elton John at an Interview dinner, and we just sort of became friends. He's got such a wicked sense of humor. ↗

— Moby

#dinner #elton #elton john #friends #got

Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#comfort #common #common enemy #cordial #deny

It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it? ↗

— L. M. Montgomery

#knowing #wicked #without

I got heavily into the drum-and-bass scene, which is really wicked. ↗

— Ajay Naidu

#heavily #i #into #really #scene

Wickedness is its own punishment. ↗

— Francis Quarles

#punishment #wickedness