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We shall have to repent in this generation , not so much for the evil deeds of the wicked people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

– Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.

– Charlie Chaplin

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The fools in this world make about as much trouble as the wicked do.

– Josh Billings

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Without Christ, sciences in every department are vain....The man who knows not God is vain, though he should be conversant with every branch of learning. Nay more, we may affirm this too with truth, that these choice gifts of God -- expertness of mind, acuteness of judgment, liberal sciences, and acquaintance with languages, are in a manner profaned in every instance in which they fall to the lot of wicked men.

– John Calvin

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We are more wicked together than separately. If you are forced to be in a crowd, then most of all you should withdraw into yourself.

– Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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He who spares the wicked injures the good.

– Seneca

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God bears with the wicked, but not forever.

– Miguel de Cervantes

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All things come alike to all there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked.

– Ecclesiastes 92 Bible

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Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency in sin. It is just that negative species of virtue which consists in not doing what is scandalously depraved and wicked. But there is no heart of holy principle in it, any more than there is in the grosser sin.

– Horace Bushnell

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But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness -- each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked -- each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity.

– Herbert Butterfield

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

– L. M. Montgomery

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The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.

– Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

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Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.

– Indian Proverb

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We will have no truce or parlay with you Hitler, or the grisly gang who work your wicked will. You do your worst -- and we will do our best.

– Winston Churchill

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