Top 40 Wickedness Quotes

This also is a part of the Church’s teaching, that the world was made and took its beginning at a certain time, and is to be destroyed on account of its wickedness.

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.

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

Wickedness never did, never does, never will bring us happiness.

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

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

Tolerating evil leads only to more evil. And when good people stand by and do nothing while wickedness reigns, their communities will be consumed.

There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals.

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

Personally, I see little distinction between an artistic mentality and criminality. You couldn’t possibly create a compelling story without some wickedness or some fascination with the disgusting. Being good is a hindrance to a writer.

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

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

In wickedness of pride is lost the light to understand how little grace is earned and how much given.

Crimes are more often committed out of fear than wickedness. People live frightened, desperate lives.

One of the trials of life is that we do not usually receive immediately the full blessing for righteousness or the full cursing for wickedness.

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.

The world is increasing in wickedness.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

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

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.

Wickedness is its own punishment.

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

Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.

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.

This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.

Let not those who say that the path of obedience is a dangerous one claim to believe in the living and true God. They deny his omniscience, omnipresence, omnipotence. It is his will that the bands of wickedness should be loosed, the heavy burdens of tyranny undone, the oppressed set free.

What is their potential for evil; what is their potential for wickedness? That’s the only time that those characters become interesting to watch.

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.

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

After a sound drubbing followed by half a day’s fasting, I felt more like laughing than like crying; and, in half a while, all was forgotten and my wickedness began afresh and worse than ever.

It is the task of theologians to establish the limits of justice and injustice regarding the intrinsic goodness or wickedness of an act; it is the task of the observer of public life to establish the relationships of political justice and injustice, that is, of what is useful or harmful to society.

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 behaved. I wonder if that’s dull and liberal and wimpy? I should probably write something that celebrates wickedness.

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.

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.

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 can’t deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

According to this way of arguing, there will be no true principles in the world; for there are none but what may be wrested and perverted to serve bad purposes, either through the weakness or wickedness of men.

A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith; spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism; and moral relativism, taken outside midfield, leads inexorably both to heresy and to secular wickedness, which are often identical.

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.