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#wickedness

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What is their potential for evil; what is their potential for wickedness? That's the only time that those characters become interesting to watch.


Jennifer Beals


#characters #evil #interesting #only #only time

There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.


Francis Beaumont


#grows #man #method #up #wickedness

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

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

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

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.


Laurence Sterne


#more #occasions #other #put #sin

It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means.


Lydia M. Child


#fight #means #mistake #noble #overcome

The proposition that we should encourage wickedness and violence by exposing one side of the face to blows because we have been beaten on the other is too great an absurdity.


Thomas Mellon


#beaten #because #been #blows #encourage

For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.


G.K. Chesterton


#justice #mercy #wickedness #love






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