Ali ibn Abi Talib Quotes

… there were days … when I came back from some scene of eviction so maddened by the sights of hunger and misery I had seen in the day’s work that I felt disposed to take the gun from behind my door and shoot the first landlord I met.

Men are always wicked at bottom unless they are made good by some compulsion.

Man is almost always as wicked as his needs require.

There are a great many good people, and a great many sane people here this afternoon. Unfortunately, by a kind of coincidence, all the good people are mad, and all the sane people are wicked.

The motions of men must be such as suggest their dignity or their baseness.

Pastor: One employed by the wicked to prove to them by his example that virtue doesn't pay.

I think it's one of the kindest things you can do to the very wicked, to give them time to repent.

We're gonna be in a world of hurt if we don't get it fixed, because there's going to be billions of people out there - they're hungry, they're mad. One thing that they can get their hands on is guns.

We ought to flee the friendship of the wicked, and the enmity of the good.

One never learns how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her~is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil?

Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.

To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory.

One things there's no getting by, I've been a wicked girl, Says I... But, if I can't be sorry I might as well be glad !

A poor man defended himself when charged with stealing food to appease the cravings of hunger, saying, the cries of the stomach silenced those of the conscience.

There are only two bad things in this world, sin and bile.

Even the wicked get worse than they deserve.

A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.

What the hell, I'll just eat some trash.

Men are always thinking that they are going to do something grandly wicked to their enemies; but when it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.

In most cases, people, even wicked people, are far more naive and simple-hearted than one generally assumes. And so are we.

Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good.

Goodness is equally hateful to the wicked, as vice is to the virtuous.

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.