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My only wickedness is that I love you; my only goodness, the same. — Constance Fenimore Woolson

Oh, the wickedness of man is very great," said Villefort, "since it surpasses the goodness of God. — Alexandre Dumas

The smug mask of virtue triumphant could be almost as horrible as the face of wickedness revealed. — Terry Pratchett

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

Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils. — Plutarch

Satirize wickedness if you must
but pity weakness. — L.M. Montgomery

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

As our culture has become increasingly hostile to Christianity, it has become correspondingly open to wickedness. — Rick Scarborough

Wickedness may prosper for awhile, but in the long run, he that sets all the knaves at work will pay them. — Roger L'Estrange

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

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

Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody's fine feelings may be offended. — William Makepeace Thackeray

I would take up wickedness — Mark Twain

Righteousness is light;
wickedness is darkness.
Righteousness and joy are brothers;
evil and sorrow are cousins. — Matshona Dhliwayo

For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy. — G.K. Chesterton

Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness. — Sophocles

Money,if it does not bring you happiness,it will atleast help you be miserable in comfort — Helen Gurley Brown

To be wicked is never excusable, but there is some merit in knowing that you are; the most irreparable of vices is to do evil from stupidity. — Charles Baudelaire

We must repay goodness and wickedness: but why exactly to the person who has done us a good or a wicked turn? — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power. — John Adams

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

More harm is done by fools through foolishness than is done by evil-doers through wickedness. — Muhammad

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

The wickedness of the world is so great, you have to keep running so your legs won't be stolen from under you! — Bertolt Brecht

Jews are responsible for the majority of the wickedness in the world. — Professor Griff

She also said the wicked people needed love as much as good people and were much better at it. — Alasdair Gray

The way to wickedness is always through wickedness. — Seneca The Younger

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

The unrighteous are never really fortunate. — Euripides

And remember as in all of us, it is only your capacity for wickedness that makes selflessness possible. — Danielle Paige

The insane and irrational springs of wickedness in most men ... — John Maynard Keynes

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

People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked. — Terry Pratchett

Despite everything they say, they are not popular. And the longer they stay in government, the better people will get to know their wickedness. — Ken Follett

The Lord knows those who are his," and, "Everyone who confesses the name of the Lord must turn away from wickedness. — Anonymous

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

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

The greatest historian should also be a great moralist. It is no proof of impartiality to treat wickedness and goodness on the same level. — Theodore Roosevelt

Oh, how cowardly is wickedness always! — Statius

God Himself even "forgets" the wickedness committed by those whom He has forgiven. That's why it is never too late to clean up your life. — James C. Dobson

Wickedness is its own punishment. — Francis Quarles

When my children hear godliness out of my mouth and they see wickedness in my life, then I point them to heaven and I lead them to hell. — Alistair Begg

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

She also understood there was a hole in her heart where her son should be, that she was a wicked, selfish woman for wishing him back. — Shannon Celebi

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

When I said you were safe, he says softly, a hint of wickedness in his voice, I meant from everyone but me. — Lisa Renee Jones

I do mean that wickedness, when you examine it, turns out to be the pursuit of some good in the wrong way. — C.S. Lewis

It seems to me certain that more people are killed out of righteous stupidity than out of wickedness. — Karl Popper

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

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

Present-Day Wickedness, Apostasy and Modern Civilization Cannot Prevent Revival. — John R. Rice

There is no sin in complaining to God, but much wickedness in complaining of him. — John Flavel

It is an esoteric doctrine of society, that a little wickedness is good to make muscle; as if conscience were not good for hands and legs. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation. — Plutarch

I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there. — Solomon

Evil people are those who knew they're evil, but refused to do anything about it. — Jawe Querimit

Insanity has excuses; wickedness has not. — Ariana Franklin

In wickedness the haughty man and the weakling meet. But they misunderstand one another. I know you. — Friedrich Nietzsche

To philosopher and historian the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events. — David Hume

Wickedness also resides in the gaze that perceives itself as innocent and surrounded by wickedness. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

For we never have naked and empty symbols, except when our ingratitude and wickedness hinder the working of divine beneficence. — John Calvin

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

Chapter XVI.
He Disapproves of the Mode of Educating Youth, and He Points Out Why Wickedness is Attributed to the Gods by the Poets. — Augustine Of Hippo

Wickedness may prosper for a while. — Roger L'Estrange

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.

Sin leads to wickedness and to hearts that become hardened to things of the Spirit. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

The wickedness of the church can be one thing and one only: turning the Good News of Jesus into the bad news of religion. — Robert Farrar Capon

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

Weakness is oftentimes so palpable as to be equivalent to wickedness. — George Sand

A man who piously shuts himself up to meditate upon the sin of wickedness and to keep it fresh in his mind joins a brotherhood of awful examples. — Ambrose Bierce

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

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

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

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

We never deceive people to benefit them, for knavery is a compound of wickedness and falsehood. — Jean De La Bruyere

I know this: The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness, she said. — Gregory Maguire

Wickedness is weakness. — John Milton

The majority is wicked. — Bias Of Priene

Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly. — Jane Austen

The world is increasing in wickedness. — Ezra Taft Benson

Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will. — Aristotle.

For the wickedness of the world is so great you have to run your legs off in order to avoid having them stolen from under you. — Bertolt Brecht

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

Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything. — Samuel Johnson

It is wickedness when you receive blessing and not giving blessing to people. — Sunday Adelaja

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

The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose; and the consequences are nearly always the same. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means. — Lydia M. Child

Sometimes a spoonful of wickedness leads to a mountain of regret. — Marcia Lynn McClure

Lend your light to the blind. Why should the wickedness of men irritate you, when it is only blindness? — Eugenio Maria De Hostos

How much wickedness could you do in the service of good before it turned into pure evil? — Nancy Farmer

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

It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death. — Socrates

God is punishing me for my past wickedness by keeping me alive and in as much pain as he can. — Ginger Baker

The world loves a spice of wickedness. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Oh, I wouldn't have minded its being heretical. I can stand wickedness, but I can't stand foolishness, — L.M. Montgomery

If the will be set on virtue, there will be no practice of wickedness. — Confucius

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