Joseph de Maistre Quotes

The world is increasing in wickedness.

When men don't fear God, they give themselves to evil.

Evil changes everybody!

Evil is only good perverted.

The priests, either from indulgence or carelessness, have allowed the wicked to give loose reins to their lusts

We have learned to live with unholiness and have come to look upon it as the natural and expected thing.

… the most depraved wretches on earth.

Ladies and gentlemen, there is evil in this world.

Evil will always exist in this world.

Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.

Wilde is the greatest force for evil that has appeared in Europe during the last 350 years.

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

No one who is in this world will deny that evils exist. What, then, do we say? That evil is not a living and animated substance, but a condition of the soul which is opposed to virtue and which springs up In the slothful because of their falling away from good.

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

What is indisputable is the fact that unbelief is the force that gives birth to all of our bad behavior and every moral failure. It is the root.

All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

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.

This is the very womb and bed of enormity.

When a man gets his money in bad ways, when he sees the better course and takes the worse, then the devil's in his heart, and that fixes him.

All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

We live in a world that is filled with filth and sleaze, a world that reeks of evil. You cannot afford that filthy poison to touch you. Stay away from it. Avoid it.

Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.

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

No one may do evil that good may come.