Ted Turner Quotes

IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices.

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.

There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.

The temptations to wrong are many; they spring out of a corrupt nature.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.

Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.

A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.

I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

I do believe quite strongly in evil.

For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.

This is the danger, when vice becomes a precedent.

Keep your hands clean and pure from the infamous vice of corruption, a vice so infamous that it degrades even the other vices that may accompany it.

Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.

When the religion is subjected to restriction, evil, crime, corruption and pornography become spread everywhere

Ladies and gentlemen, there is evil in this world.

Evil is real.

Commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways.

What it comes down to is this: the grocer, the butcher, the baker, the merchant, the landlord, the druggist, the liquor dealer, the policeman, the doctor, the city father and the politician -- these are the people who make money out of prostitution, these are the real reapers of the wages of sin.

Nothing but heaven is impregnable to vice.

Moral vices prosper by dressing themselves as virtues.

The curious crime, the fine Felicity and flower of wickedness.

Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime? It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil.