Top 314 Wickedness Quotes & Sayings

Indiscretion and wickedness, be it known, are first cousins.

Peace and wickedness are far asunder.

I became evil for no reason. I had no motive for my wickedness except wickedness itself. It was foul, and I loved it. I loved the self-destruction, I loved my fall, not the object for which I had fallen but my fall itself. My depraved soul leaped down from your firmament to ruin. I was seeking not to gain anything by shameful means, but shame for its own sake.

Slander is a complication, a comprisal and sum of all wickedness.

Wickedness is its own punishment.

The way to wickedness is always through wickedness.

The wickedness of the few makes the calamity of the many.

People in general know not what wickedness there is in this pretended word of God. Brought up in habits of superstition, they take it for granted that the Bible is true, and that it is good; they permit themselves not to doubt of it, and they carry the ideas they form of the benevolence of the Almighty to the book which they have been taught to believe was written by his authority. Good heavens! It is quite another thing; it is a book of lies, wickedness, and blasphemy.

There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.

It is privilege that causes evil in the world, not wickedness, and not men.

No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.

Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.

The curious crime, the fine Felicity and flower of wickedness.

The Bible: a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind.

Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.

Insanity has excuses; wickedness has not.

There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.

The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness.

I prefer to be a villainess. There's something a bit more delicious about their wickedness.

Wickedness is weakness.

Weakness is oftentimes so palpable as to be equivalent to wickedness.

It takes physical courage to indulge in wickedness. The "good" are too cowardly to do it.

There is one fairly good reason for fighting - and that is, if the other man starts it. You see, wars are a great wickedness, perhaps the greatest wickedness of a wicked species. They are so wicked that they must not be allowed. When you can be perfectly certain that the other man started them, then is the time when you might have a sort of duty to stop them.

Eliminating wickedness is a different project from eliminating violence. Eliminating violence - the destruction associated with wickedness - is a practical program that I'm very willing to pursue.

I have never seen one who really loves goodness or one who really hates wickedness. One who really loves goodness will not place anything above it. One who really hates wickedness will practice goodness in such a way that wickedness will have no chance to get at him. Is there anyone who has devoted his whole strength to doing good for even as long as a single day? I have not seen anyone give up such an attempt because he had not the strength to go on. Perhaps there is such a case, but I have never seen it.

There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.

All the wickedness in the world begins with an act of forgetting.

Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.

There are heroes of wickedness, as there are of goodness.

It's not the wickedness of the pagan that breaks my heart. It's the compromise of the Christian that grieves my soul.

Wickedness is nourished by lust.

Wickedness may prosper for a while.

Are people born wicked, or is wickedness trust upon them?

The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.

Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.

Maybe violent wickedness can be decapitated, but stupidity has too many heads.

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

The World is not ruined by the wickedness of the wicked, but by the weakness of the good.

One may detest the wickedness of a brother without hating him.

Wickedness is a kind of voluntary frenzy, and a chosen distraction.

Sin leads to wickedness and to hearts that become hardened to things of the Spirit.

When may a revival be expected? When the wickedness of the wicked grieves and distresses the Christian.

In this crucible of wickedness the true greatness of Mormon shines like a star.

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.

Enter with me into the sufferings, not only of the people of India but of the whole world. Nonviolence is a more active and real fight against wickedness than retaliation whose very nature is to increase wickedness. It is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest.

I do not know whether it ought to be so, but certainly silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way. Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.

Oh, how cowardly is wickedness always!

It must now atone in blood for its complicity in wickedness.

Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.

The world is increasing in wickedness.

However wickedness outstrips men, it has no wings to fly from God.

It is no sin to be tempted; the wickedness lies in being overcome.

Satirize wickedness if you must--but pity weakness.

Jews are responsible for the majority of the wickedness in the world.

What has this unfeeling age of ours left untried, what wickedness has it shunned?

Do not become angry and furious.... for those two emotions lead to wickedness, and wickedness leads to the Hellfire.

Listen to these words of [apostle] Paul: "We war not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers, and the rulers of the darkness of this world and spiritual wickedness that's in high places." It's in "high places" that the plot against Black and Brown, and poor White is going on; it's spiritual wickedness that's way up in the ruling classes of religious people who don't want to see the little man rise. It's the principalities and the powers.

Success gives the character of honesty to some classes of wickedness.

The world loves a spice of wickedness.

One man's wickedness may easily become all men's curse.