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  • Despite its protests to the contrary, modern Christianity has become willy-nilly the religion of the state and the economic status quo. Because it has been so exclusively dedicated to incanting anemic souls into Heaven, it has been made the tool of much earthly villainy. It has, for the most part, stood silently by while a predatory economy has ravaged the world, destroyed its natural beauty and health, divided and plundered its human communities and households.

    Community   Heaven   Soul  
    Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.319, Counterpoint
  • Villainy that is vigilant will be an overmatch for virtue, if she slumber at her post.

    Slumber   Virtue   Posts  
    Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.226
  • A fellow by the hand of nature mark'd, Quoted, and sign'd, to do a deed of shame.

    Hands   Deeds   Shame  
    William Shakespeare (1836). “Select plays from Shakspeare; adapted for the use of schools and young persons: with notes from the best commentators. [6 plays”
  • There is a tremendous amount of corporate villainy going on in the US, where corporations are doing things that they know are causing harm, and they wouldn't do this where their children live or where their children are growing up. Communities often don't have the tools necessary to fight back against grievous harms being caused them. So to give a cause of action for folks who can demonstrate the harm that's being caused, it's critically important that you allow people to have more tools with which to defend themselves and defend their communities.

    Source: www.motherjones.com
  • To-day Massachusetts; and the whole of the American republic, from the border of Maine to the Pacific slopes, and from the Lakes to the Gulf, stand upon the immutable and everlasting principles of equal and exact justice. The days of unrequited labor are numbered with the past. Fugitive slave laws are only remembered as relics of that barbarism which John Wesley pronounced "the sum of all villainies," and whose knowledge of its blighting effects was matured by his travels in Georgia and the Carolinas.

    Past   Lakes   Law  
  • Isn't every hero aware of all the terrible reason they did those good deeds?" Aware of every mistake they ever made and how good people got hurt because of their decisions? Don't they recall the moments they weren't heroic at all? The moments where their heroism led to more deaths than deliberate villainy ever could?

    Hurt   Mistake   Hero  
  • I am ... troubled and grieved when men argue that many women want to be raped and that it does not bother them at all to be raped by men even when they verbally protest. It would be hard to believe that such great villainy is actually pleasant for them.

    Believe   Men   Doe  
  • Affectation is to be always distinguished from hypocrisy as being the art of counterfeiting those qualities, which we might with innocence and safety, be known to want. Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy; affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly.

    Art   Hypocrisy   Safety  
    Samuel Johnson (1819). “The Beauties of Samuel Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous”, p.23
  • To enlist the support of the people and of parliament, you only have to propose a profitable villainy.

  • The villany you teach me I shall execute; and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.

    'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 1, l. [76]
  • The most interesting heroes have a bit of villainy to them, and the most interesting villains have a certain bit of heroism in them. I think (Alan Shore) intends to do the right thing, but his view of the world is very different so, to get to the right place, he sometimes takes a path that goes through a very dark forest.

    Hero   Dark   Thinking  
    The Olympian, October 04, 2005.
  • For the villainy of the world is great, and a man has to run his legs off to keep them from being stolen out fom underneath him.

    Running   Men   World  
  • I think it's too easy often to find a villain out of the headlines and to then repeat that villainy again and again and again. You know, traditionally, America has always looked to scapegoat someone as the boogie man.

    Men   Thinking   America  
    "Featured Filmmaker: Edward Zwick" by Stax, www.ign.com. March 4, 2002.
  • I will to my dying day oppose with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand, and villainy on the other, as this writ of assistance is.

    Hands   Dying   Slavery  
    "James Otis: Against Writs of Assistance". James Otis' speech (February 1761), as quoted in William Tudor "James Otis's Speech on the Writs of Assistance", books.google.com. 1906.
  • Villainy, when detected, never gives up, but boldly adds impudence to imposture.

    Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Enquiry into the present state of polite learning. The citizen of the world”, p.467
  • people who pay greater respect to a wealthy villain than to an honest, upright man in poverty, almost deserve to be enslaved; they plainly show that wealth, however it may be acquired, is, in their esteem, to be preferred to virtue.

    Respect   Honesty   Men  
  • Mos Eisley spaceport. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.

    Star Wars (motion picture) (1977)
  • I'm interested in villainy.

  • And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ; And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.

    Play   Devil   Saint  
    William Shakespeare, Janis Lull (2009). “King Richard III”, p.95, Cambridge University Press
  • O, Men's vows are women's traitors! All good seeming, By thy revolt, O husband, shall be thought Put on for villainy, not born where't grows, But worn a bait for ladies.

    Husband   Men   Bait  
    William Shakespeare (2011). “Cymbeline”, p.77, Palgrave Macmillan
  • No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done.

    Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “A Study in Scarlet”, p.32, Arthur Conan Doyle
  • The inhabitants of Coventry, for example, continued to imagine that their sufferings were due to the innate villainy of Adolf Hitler without a suspicion that a decision, splendid or otherwise, of the British War Cabinet, was the decisive factor in the case.

  • Bin Laden didn't come from the abstract. He came from somewhere, and if you look where ... you'll see America's hand of villainy.

    Hands   America   Looks  
    "Did Harry Belafonte Dishonor America?". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. December 02, 2005.
  • Nobody can be forced to commit an act of villainy. You can't push anybody into the mud; people always step into it themselves.

    People   Mud   Steps  
    Sergei Lukyanenko (2006). “Night Watch”, Miramax
  • No visor does become black villainy so well as soft and tender flattery.

    Black   Doe   Flattery  
    William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson (1822). “Romeo and Juliet. Comedy of errors. Titus Andronicus. Pericles”, p.350
  • Villains are usually the worst casuists, and rush into crimes to avoid less. Henry VIII. committed murder to avoid the imputation of adultery; and in our times, those who commit the latter crime attempt to wash off the stain of seducing the wife by signifying their readiness to shoot the husband.

    Husband   Wife   Adultery  
    Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.83
  • I have a chest full of all the insults, villainies, and infamies a man is capable of withstanding. . . . If you become famous, you will have to go through that.

    Men   Insult   Infamy  
  • You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.

    Stupid   Results   Malice  
    "Logic of Empire" (1941).
  • Nothing so evil as money ever grew to be current among men. This lays cities low, this drives men from their homes, this trains and warps honest souls till they set themselves to works of shame; this still teaches folk to practise villainies, and to know every godless deed. But all the men who wrought this thing for hire have made it sure that, soon or late, they shall pay the price.

    Sophocles (2017). “Antigone”, p.10, Youcanprint
  • Men whose wit has been mother of villainy once have learned from it to be evil in all things.

    Mother   Men   Evil  
    Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1960). “The Complete Greek Tragedies: Sophocles”
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