A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.
The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say 'We did it ourselves.'
Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.
God bears with the wicked but not forever.
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.
Being famous is wicked. But it's better to be normal.
A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism and moral relativism taken outside midfield leads inexorably both to heresy and to secular wickedness which are often identical.
None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience.
Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.
Our nation is being led astray by ungodly judges mayors and governors who are given to change defying the Constitution and substituting their own wicked agendas.
Vulgar and obscene the papers run rumors daily about people in show business tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.
Beauty is indeed a good gift of God but that the good may not think it a great good God dispenses it even to the wicked.
Jeffrey Deitch is the Jeff Koons of art dealers. Not because he's the biggest best or the richest of his kind. But because in some ways he's the weirdest (which is saying a lot when you're talking about the wonderful wicked lovable and annoying creatures known as art dealers).
But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist the good are ever too luke-warm.
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?