Wickedness may prosper for awhile, but in the long run, he that sets all the knaves at work will pay them.
The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.
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.
Evil men by their own nature cannot ever prosper.
You can't look at the Noah story and not see some kind of environmental connection. The Creator wants to start over. He wants creation to be given a shot at survival, and the true enemy is the wickedness of men.
There is much said about the wickedness of doing evil that good may come. Alas! there is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
The unrighteous are never really fortunate.
Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop; the gut expanded to take in more and more.
It is an esoteric doctrine of society, that a little wickedness is good to make muscle; as if conscience were not good for hands and legs.
Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman.
One of the trials of life is that we do not usually receive immediately the full blessing for righteousness or the full cursing for wickedness.
[About Eichmann:] It was as though in those last minutes he was summing up the lesson that this long course in human wickedness had taught us - the lesson of the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil.
It takes physical courage to indulge in wickedness. The "good" are too cowardly to do it.
Few men are wantonly wicked.
To great evils we submit; yet we resent little provocations.
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
Wickedness frames the engines of her own torment. She is a wonderful artisan of a miserable life.
. . . is it surprising that today we have become so morally blind (for wickedness blinds) that we save the baby whales at great cost, and murder millions of unborn children?
And when your soul becometh great, then doth it become haughty, and in your sublimity there is wickedness.