Wickedness Quotes

256 Wickedness quotes by 197 unique authors

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. — Joseph Conrad
If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you… — Denis Diderot
The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence. — Adolf Hitler
In wickedness of pride is lost the light to understand how little grace is earned and how much given. — Robert Hunter
It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts. — Carl Jung
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness. — Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten. — D. H. Lawrence
For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel. — Martin Luther
It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they… — Niccolo Machiavelli
War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason. — James Madison
There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals. — Herman Melville
Although God loves us unconditionally, He does get angry at sin, wickedness and evil. But He is not an angry God. God hates sin, but… — Joyce Meyer
I worry sometimes that I'm a bit moralistic; always writing about men who are learning to grow up, not be so self-absorbed, selfish or badly… — David Nicholls
The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil. — Plutarch
The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity. — Arthur Schopenhauer
The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones. — William Shakespeare
Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together. — Laurence Sterne
When may a revival be expected? When the wickedness of the wicked grieves and distresses the Christian. — Billy Sunday
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. — Henry David Thoreau
The lack of money is the root of all evil. — Mark Twain
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. — Voltaire
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before. — Mae West
I told him I was going to betray you, and betray Lyra, and he believed me because I was corrupt and full of wickedness; he… — Philip Pullman
Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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