Top Wretched Quotes
Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.
Adolf Hitler
If happy I and wretched he, Perhaps the king would change with me.
Charles Mackay
It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become.
Ralph Steadman
Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.
William Hazlitt
The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
Samuel Johnson
Blaise Pascal 
Mikhail Bakunin 
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He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
Plato 
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How sick one gets of being "good," how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness.
Alice James
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Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched.
Josiah Strong
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Furthermore, the slaves cannot be put into a more wretched situation, ourselves being judges, and the community cannot take a more lively step to escape ruin, and obtain the smiles and protection of Heaven.
Samuel Hopkins
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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
Tacitus
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O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.
Nahum Tate
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For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night.
Sophocles
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War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.
John McCain
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Popular Wretched Authors
Samuel JohnsonLucius Annaeus SenecaMarcus Tullius CiceroSamuel Butler Plato SophoclesFrancis BaconBlaise PascalWilliam HazlittEric Hoffer Aeschylus VirgilJean de la BruyereLeonardo da VinciDag Hammarskjold
Adolf HitlerTitus Maccius PlautusMikhail Bakunin TacitusThomas MoreAndrew CarnegieJohn McCainJupiter HammonMalcolm MuggeridgeIvor NovelloRalph SteadmanJosiah StrongAnthony BurgessJohn WebsterFanny Kemble
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