Top 100 Quotes About Wickedness
#1. WITCH, n. (1) Any ugly and repulsive old woman, in a wicked league with the devil. (2) A beautiful and attractive young woman, in wickedness a league beyond the devil.
Ambrose Bierce
#2. Weakness is oftentimes so palpable as to be equivalent to wickedness.
George Sand
#3. Bad people aren't happy ... Wickedness often wears fancy clothes, dines on rich food, has money, controls armies, rules nations ... but it never seems to know joy. Peace, laughter, trust, ease: these things flee from wickedness like sparrows from the shadow of a hawk.
Sonya Hartnett
#4. Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.
A.J.P. Taylor
#5. 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 He loves sinners! He will never approve of sin in your life, but He always loves you and wants to work with you to make progress in living a holy life in Christ.
Joyce Meyer
#6. When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene.
Jane Austen
#7. Discovery is the chance they never had, to tell, on oath, how wickedness infects a life. One's only life. Beyond one's will, evil comes, looking for a surprise soft spot, a place to inject its poison.
Kaimana Wolff
#8. Christ was either the grandest, guiltiest of impostors, by a marvelous and most subtle refinement of wickedness, or He was God manifest in the flesh.
Herrick Johnson
#9. If a person seems wicked, do not cast him away. Awaken him with your words, elevate him with your deeds, repay his injury with your kindness. Do not cast him away; cast away his wickedness.
Lao-Tzu
#10. Once upon a time, something terrifying lived in the woods. Or perhaps the woods were terrifying. Or perhaps the whole world is poisoned with wickedness and lies, and it's best to learn that now.
No, Fyrian, darling. I don't believe that last bit either.
Kelly Barnhill
#11. If you neglect to instruct children in the way of holiness, will the devil neglect to instruct them in the way of wickedness? No; if you will not teach them to pray, he will to curse, swear, and lie; if ground be uncultivated, weeds will spring.
John Flavel
#12. Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.
Sophocles
#13. Our wickedness shall not overpower the unspeakable goodness and mercy of God; our dullness shall not overpower God's wisdom, nor our infirmity God's omnipotence.
John Of Kronstadt
#14. A miracle focus culture is propagating wickedness.
Sunday Adelaja
#15. It is supposable that, in the eyes of angels, a struggle down a dark lane and a battle of Leipsic differ in nothing but excess of wickedness.
Robert Aris Willmott
#16. Oh, the wickedness of man is very great," said Villefort, "since it surpasses the goodness of God.
Alexandre Dumas
#17. It was not the sorrow of the world that broke the heart of Christ, but its wickedness. He was equal to its sorrow ... He began by being the world's healer. But what broke him was its sin.
P.T. Forsyth
#18. In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.
Anna Jameson
#19. Instead of dwelling on the wickedness and grief of those who have sinned, I rejoice to read how many have abandoned their sinful practices and are now on the road back to righteousness and happiness. Let us rejoice in the spirit of forgiveness, which is the comforting message of the Atonement.
Theodore M. Burton
#20. there is no shortage of reading material in this house. Charlotte is an excellent writer, but Mr. Shakespeare is better, and if it's Branwell's wickedness you like, Papa says we may read Lord Byron in moderation." Emily
Lena Coakley
#21. To philosopher and historian the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.
David Hume
#22. All the wickedness in the world begins with an act of forgetting.
Mark Buchanan
#23. Disguise, I see thou art a wickedness,/ Wherein the ... enemy does much.
William Shakespeare
#24. Call it no more free-will, but slavish lust; free to evil, but free from good, till regenerating grace loosens the bands of wickedness.
Thomas Boston
#25. It is privilege that causes evil in the world, not wickedness, and not men.
Lincoln Steffens
#26. There are times when the evil seems so impenetrable, the wickedness so victorious, you don't even know how to hope. But then the good news bursts in, as impossible to deny as it is to believe.
Heather Day Gilbert
#27. If you wish to leave much wealth to your children, leave them in God's care. Do not leave them riches, but virtue and skill. For if they learn to expect riches, they will not mind anything besides, and their abundant riches shall give them the means of screening the wickedness of their ways.
Saint John Chrysostom
#28. There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.
Francis Beaumont
#29. Virtue and vice are not arbitrary things; but there is a natural and eternal reason for goodness and virtue, and against vice and wickedness.
John Tillotson
#30. Wickedness may prosper for awhile, but in the long run, he that sets all the knaves at work will pay them.
Roger L'Estrange
#31. In such a world as this, with such hearts as ours, weakness is wickedness in the long run. Whoever lets himself be shaped and guided by any thing lower than an inflexible will, fixed in obedience to God, will in the end be shaped into a deformity, and guided to wreck and ruin
Alexander MacLaren
#32. Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will.
Aristotle.
#33. Altruism is the root of all Wickedness
Andrew Ryan
#34. 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 are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#35. More harm is done by fools through foolishness than is done by evil-doers through wickedness.
Muhammad
#36. Combinations of wickedness would overwhelm the world, by the advantage which licentious principles afford, did not those who have long practised perfidy grow faithless to each other.
Samuel Johnson
#37. The ne plus ultra of wickedness is embodied in what is commonly presented to mankind as the creed of Christianity.
John Stuart Mill
#39. It would be more consistent that we call [the Bible] the work of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.
Thomas Paine
#40. God has sometimes converted wickedness into madness; and it is to the credit of human reason that men who are not in some degree mad are never capable of being in the highest degree wicked.
Edmund Burke
#41. Artificial civilization have originated wants, vices, and false tastes, which occasionally become so powerful as to stifle within us all good feelings, and ultimately to lead us into guilt and wickedness.
Alexandre Dumas
#42. Twenty-year-olds have a kind of emotional idealism about relationships and about the world that enables them to say, 'No, you lied to me. Goodbye.' When they see wickedness, they walk away.
Lorrie Moore
#43. His golden eyes flashed wickedness and promise. "As you wish.
Ashlan Thomas
#44. The fear of being uncovered, the fear of being made known for their wickedness is what is driving the ADL and that Synagogue of Satan, false Jews to pin the label on me as an anti-Semite. This is something they feel they must do in order to cover the evil that they have done or are a party to.
Louis Farrakhan
#45. The Lord knows those who are his," and, "Everyone who confesses the name of the Lord must turn away from wickedness.
Anonymous
#47. While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.
Abraham Lincoln
#48. Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
Lucretius
#49. Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.
Laurence Sterne
#50. My world, my world ... How can such a good little girl like you destroy all of my beautiful wickedness.
- Wicket Witch of the North
L. Frank Baum
#51. The human qualities of the raw materials show through. Naivety, error, contradiction, even (as in the cursing Psalms) wickedness are not removed. The total result is not "the Word of God" in the sense that every passage in itself, gives impeccable science or history. It carries the Word of God.
C.S. Lewis
#52. In wickedness of pride is lost the light to understand how little grace is earned and how much given.
Robert Hunter
#53. Or perhaps it's the wickedness in him that she can't resist. There are such women.
Madeleine Brent
#54. There are always two people involved in cruelty, aren't there? One to be vicious and someone to suffer! And what's the use of getting rid of - of wickedness, say - in the outside world if you let it creep back into things from inside you?
Margaret Mahy
#55. In Victorian England, people were told they should discourage their wives from reading because it would lead them into all sorts of devilish wickedness.
Marion Bailey
#56. The wickedness of the few makes the calamity of the many.
Publilius Syrus
#57. The world seems to be witnessing a deluge of 'haterisms', and racist propaganda because evil's pain was born to die, and it's time of tyranny is near the end. Don't get caught up by the souls of wickedness; this ain't your fight. ~T.F. Hodge
T.F. Hodge
#58. And the lives of these old black women were synthesized in their eyes- a puree of tragedy and humor, wickedness and serenity, truth and fantasy.
Toni Morrison
#59. It takes physical courage to indulge in wickedness. The "good" are too cowardly to do it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#60. It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power.
John Adams
#61. Now the wickedness of the world is already so great that it needs no more teaching to make it worse. On the whole, the less said the better.
Anonymous
#62. God is punishing me for my past wickedness by keeping me alive and in as much pain as he can.
Ginger Baker
#63. The curious crime, the fine Felicity and flower of wickedness.
Robert Browning
#64. 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.
Comte De Lautreamont
#65. The atmosphere rare and pure, danger near and the spirit full of a joyful wickedness:
Friedrich Nietzsche
#66. seen Nineveh repent a century earlier (see the book of Jonah), but the city had fallen back into wickedness. Assyria, the world power controlling the Fertile Crescent, seemed unstoppable. Its ruthless and savage warriors had already conquered Israel, the northern kingdom,
Anonymous
#67. The holy man, though he be distressed, does not eat food mixed with wickedness. The lion, though hungry, will not eat what is unclean.
Sakya Pandita
#68. There's unique and particular moment in the natural law of universe,
where all things except them are going to turn against their wickedness.
Toba Beta
#69. War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
James Madison
#70. Isaiah 58:6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? To loose the bands of wickedness,to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and ye break every yoke?
Anonymous
#72. We are not to reflect on the wickedness of men but to look to the image of God in them, an image which, covering and obliterating their faults, an image which, by its beauty and dignity, should allure us to love and embrace them.
John Calvin
#73. Truly it is reasonable to make a great distinction between the faults that come from our weakness and those that come from our wickedness.
Michel De Montaigne
#74. Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop; the gut expanded to take in more and more.
John Updike
#75. On the other side of the rock, some words were carved: AND GOD SAW THAT THE WICKEDNESS OF MAN WAS GREAT IN THE EARTH
Tommy Wallach
#76. He gave himself fully to the penitent life, fasting, praying, confessing his wickedness and execrating himself in public. He became a better man in the small matters of his days, an even better, wiser king in the great matters of state.
Geraldine Brooks
#77. How great, therefore, the wickedness of human nature is! How many girls there are who prevent conception and kill and expel tender fetuses, although procreation is the work of God.
Martin Luther
#78. I think some have to fight harder to choose good over evil because the evil's got it out for them. And maybe it's because those're the ones evil knows will become the strongest warriors, recognizing true wickedness when it rears its head.
Mary Weber
#79. The proposition that we should encourage wickedness and violence by exposing one side of the face to blows because we have been beaten on the other is too great an absurdity.
Thomas Mellon
#80. But all the wickedness in the world which man may do or think is no more to the mercy of God than a live coal dropped in the sea.
William Langland
#81. No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.
Livy
#82. I know not how to express better, what my sins appear to me to be, than by heaping infinite upon infinite, and multiplying infinite by infinite ... When I look into my heart and take a view of my wickedness, it looks like an abyss infinitely deeper than hell.
Jonathan Edwards
#83. If weakness may excuse, What murderer, what traitor, parricide, Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it? All wickedness is weakness; that plea, therefore, With God or man will gain thee no remission.
John Milton
#84. One man's wickedness may easily become all men's curse.
Publilius Syrus
#85. Alas! I had not then learned the measure of "man's inhumanity to man," nor to what limitless extent of wickedness he will go for the love of gain
Solomon Northup
#86. We live among wicked man through our own wickedness. One thing alone can bring us peace, an agreement to treat one another with kindness.
Seneca.
#87. And you know what wickedness is, and shame, and fear. There were days when you peered into yourself, into the secret places of your heart, and what you saw there made you faint with horror.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#88. When You smoke herb it reveals you to yourself. All the wickedness you do is revealed by the herb - it's you conscience and gives you an honest picture of yourself.
Bob Marley
#89. 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
#90. In the commission of evil, fear no man so much as thyself; another is but one witness against thee, thou art a thousand; another thou mayest avoid, thyself thou canst not. Wickedness is its own punishment.
Francis Quarles
#91. I suppose we need not go mourning the buffaloes. In the nature of things, they had to give place to better cattle, though the change might have been made without barbarous wickedness.
John Muir
#92. Very little of what he learned of people's actions began or ended with either the noble ideals or the fiendish wickedness he had been taught lay behind all great struggles. There was something comforting in this.
David Anthony Durham
#93. Almost all philosophers, in their ethical systems, first lay down a false doctrine, and then argue that wickedness consists in acting in a manner that proves it false, which would be impossible if the doctrine were true.
Bertrand Russell
#94. It is a characteristic of the weak and criminal to attribute to others the misfortunes that are the result of their own wickedness.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#95. How well u treat the wicked people, they do nto give up their wickedness. They derive pleasure in hurting others. A serpent made to drink milk, it ejects poison only.
Chanakya
#96. We are coming now to dark shoals in rough waters, to straits so narrow that virtue and wickedness voyage close together and may be at times more difficult than usual to differentiate from each other.
Dean Koontz
#97. How much wickedness could you do in the service of good before it turned into pure evil?
Nancy Farmer
#99. The cross is proof of both the immense love of God and the profound wickedness of sin.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#100. Righteousness is light;
wickedness is darkness.
Righteousness and joy are brothers;
evil and sorrow are cousins.
Matshona Dhliwayo
