Matthew Henry Quotes

The gifts of bad men bring no good with them.

He uses his good powers for evil, and that's when it gets to the dangerous side of it.

The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions, and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto, are well known.

All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.

The men were all scumbags, but the whole point of the film is to show the development of that. Each guy is going in there to have a good time. By and large, these men are career men, family men, and you just see the deterioration of them.

Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.

Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won't help you.

Vices are usually pleasurable, at least for the time being, and often do not disclose themselves as vices, by their effects, until after they have been practised for many years; perhaps for a lifetime.

It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it.

No evil can result from its inhibition more pernicious than its toleration.

... a moral skunk .... [who has] debauched America ...

If a person is successful, we imagine they are probably also ethical, conscientious and deserving of their good fortune. This obscures the fact that many people who get ahead have done so by doing less than moral actions, which they cleverly disguise from view.

The devil, that old stager, who leads downward, perhaps, but fiddles all the way!

Sinfully acquired wealth may remain for ten years; in the eleventh year it disappears with even the original stock.

Don't board with the devil if you wish to be fat.

What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness

Other vices make their own way; this makes way for all vices. He that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice.

There's no way to use power for good.

The protection of evil must be the most self-destructive job.

Sin has made us stupid, so that we can only learn the hard way.

The way to wickedness is always through wickedness.

Things have a way of turning out so badly.

Satan's smoke has made its way into the Temple of God through some crack

If you want to do bad things, science is the most powerful way to do them.

There is no disease so destructive as lust.