“I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.”

— Alexandre Dumas

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French writer and dramatist, father of the homonym writer a… 1802–1870

John D. MacDonald (1916–1986) writer from the United States

Travis McGee series, Nightmare in Pink (1964)
Context: It isn't foolish or wicked to enjoy. Wickedness is hurting people on purpose. I love what you are and who you are and how you are. You give me great joy. And you make horrible coffee.

“For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.”

G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English mystery novelist and Christian apologist

The Coloured Lands (1938)

“If God be in all things, as in all men, the wicked as the godly, wherein then is the state of the wicked worse than the godly? Yea, if God be in both, why have they both one title, but one wicked, another godly?”

Laurence Clarkson (1615–1667) English theologian

A Single Eye, All Light, No Darkness; or Light and Darkness One (1650)

“I see through your lies Barack Obama you WICKED WICKED DEVIL!”

Alex Jones (1974) American radio host, author, conspiracy theorist and filmmaker

Alex Jones 1/20/2009' https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=14&v=uR2UXmTGK4M, 20 January 2009.
2009

“It is better to fight with a few good men against all the wicked, than with many wicked men against a few good men.”

Antisthenes (-444–-365 BC) Greek philosopher

§ 5
From Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius

“Better wicked Lucifer for a master, thought I, than a pious Tyrant!”

Michael Moorcock book The City in the Autumn Stars

Source: The City in the Autumn Stars (1986), Chapter 13 (p. 361)

“I have shown that slavery is wicked—wicked, in that it violates the great law of liberty, written on every human heart—wicked, in that it violates the first command of the decalogue—wicked, in that it fosters the most disgusting licentiousness—wicked, in that it mars and defaces the image of God by cruel and barbarous inflictions—wicked, in that it contravenes the laws of eternal justice, and tramples in the dust all the humane and heavenly precepts of the New Testament.”

Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman

Inhumanity of Slavery. Extract from A Lecture on Slavery, at Rochester. December 8, 1850
1850s, My Bondage and My Freedom (1855)

“Aloof with hermit-eye I scan
The present works of present man —
A wild and dreamlike trade of blood and guile,
Too foolish for a tear, too wicked for a smile!”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher

"Ode to Tranquility", st. 4 (1801)

“No rest for the wicked, Bob, and that means that we can't slack off either, or they'll outwork us.”

Jim Butcher Proven Guilty

Source: Proven Guilty

“One of the most popular superstitions consists in the belief that every man is endowed with definite qualities—that some men are kind, some wicked; some wise, some foolish; some energetic, some apathetic, etc. This is not true. We may say of a man that he is oftener kind than wicked; oftener wise than foolish; oftener energetic than apathetic, and vice versa. But it would not be true to say of one man that he is always kind or wise, and of another that he is always wicked or foolish. And yet we thus divide people. This is erroneous. Men are like rivers—the water in all of them, and at every point, is the same, but every one of them is now narrow, now swift, now wide, now calm, now clear, now cold, now muddy, now warm. So it is with men. Every man bears within him the germs of all human qualities, sometimes manifesting one quality, sometimes another; and often does not resemble himself at all, manifesting no change. With some people these changes are particularly sharp. And to this class Nekhludoff belonged.”

Leo Tolstoy book Resurrection

Source: Resurrection (1899), Ch. 57

“I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.”

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