Charles Sumner Quotes

The evils of the body are murder, theft, and adultery; of the tongue, lying, slander, abuse and idle talk; of the mind, covetousness, hatred and error.

Not every action or emotion however admits of the observance of a due mean. Indeed the very names of some directly imply evil, for instance malice, shamelessness, envy, and, of actions, adultery, theft, murder. All these and similar actions and feelings are blamed as being bad in themselves; it is not the excess or deficiency of them that we blame. It is impossible therefore ever to go right in regard to them - one must always be wrong.

In life we pay for the evil that in life we do.

An unvirtuous citizenry tend to elect representatives who will pander to their covetous lustings.

The corruption of people is to behave in an inhuman way.

Evil is a miscellaneous collection of nasty things that nasty people do.

He has honored & salaried almost every villain he could find.

The most wicked thing that the dark side of human nature has ever come up with.

This is the danger, when vice becomes a precedent.

I can understand why people are bad.

Evil is evil, and it doesn't discriminate by dress. Some evil people in the headlines wear designer suits and wing-tipped shoes.

Whosoever does wrong, wrongs himself; whosoever does injustice, does it to himself, making himself evil.

Wickedness may prosper for a while.

No one punishes the evil-doer under the notion, or for the reason, that he has done wrong -- only the unreasonable fury of a beast acts in that way. But he who desires to inflict rational punishment does not retaliate for a past wrong, for that which is done cannot be undone, but he has regard to the future, and is desirous that the man who is punished, and he who sees him punished, may be deterred from doing wrong again.

Sin writes histories, goodness is silent.

An ill deed cannot bring honor.

Women with women, men with men, they committed indecent acts with one another, and they received in themselves the due penalty for their perversions. They’re full of murder, envy, strife, hatred. They are insolent, arrogant, God-haters. They are heartless, they are faithless, they are senseless, they are ruthless. They invent ways of doing evil.

Sin then is not a toy with which to play but a terror to be shunned.

If a man should wanton walk with crime ... he shall find in death no great deliverance.

To see evil and not call it evil is evil.

We never do evil so thoroughly and heartily as when led to it by an honest but perverted, because mistaken, conscience.

Still others commit all sorts of evil deeds, claiming karma doesn't exist. They erroneously maintain that since everything is empty, committing evil isn't wrong. Such persons fall into a hell of endless darkness with no hope of release. Those who are wise hold no such conception.

The way to wickedness is always through wickedness.

Intentions don't matter. It's the end result we're all judged by. Evil in the name of good is still evil. And when you dance with the devil, you seldom get to pick the tune.

We never do evil so effectually as when we are led to do it by a false principle of conscience.