#wicked

The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#honor #virtue #wicked #dreams

I have a hundred times heard him say, that all ages and nations have represented their gods as wicked, in a constantly increasing progression; that mankind have gone on adding trait after trait till they reached the most perfect conception of wickedness which the human mind could devise, and have called this God, and prostrated themselves before it. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#wickedness #age

Some things I cannot change, but 'til I try I'll never know. ↗

— Stephen Schwartz

#change

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

#love #romance #the-harlequin #true-love #wicked

I loathe, detest, hate and abominate the block, the gibbet, the rack, the pillory and the faggots with equal passion," said the old man vehemently. "Not only are they devilishly cruel but they are not even common sense. They do not lesson the evil in the world, they increase it, by making those who handle these cruelties as wicked as those who suffer them. No, I'm wrong, more wicked, for there is always some expiation made in the endurance of suffering and none at all in the infliction of it. ↗

— Elizabeth Goudge

#suffering #wickedness #equality

There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals. ↗

— Herman Melville

#devils #dignity #equals #hell #hell is

If you think that you're so smart and holy, that means you haven't yet realized that a part of what we experience today...is a result of our stupidity and wickedness in the past. ↗

— Toba Beta

#smartness #stupidity #wickedness #experience

My own feeling is that if adultery is wickedness then so is food. Both make me feel so much better afterward. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#food #wickedness #food

Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop; the gut expanded to take in more and more. ↗

— John Updike

#wickedness #food

People appear like angels until you hear them speak. You must not rush to judge people by the colour of their cloaks, but by the content of their words! ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#cloaks #colour #content #crocodile-tears #deception