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

—A.J.P. Taylor

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Perhaps she would not have thought of wickedness as a state so rare, so abnormal, so exotic, one which it was so refreshing to visit, had she been able to distinguish in herself, as in...

—Marcel Proust

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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...

—Heather Day

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If you think that you’re so smart and holy, that means you haven’t yet realized that a part of what we experience today…is a result of our stupidity and wickedness in the past.

—Toba Beta

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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...

—David Anthony Durham

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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

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My own feeling is that if adultery is wickedness then so is food. Both make me feel so much better afterward.

—Kurt Vonnegut

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Maybe I was a fool to turn my back on him after his warnings, but the bad guys didn’t warn you first. No, the truly wicked ones lured you in with kindness and then blindsided...

—Heather Topham

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EvilGood-And-EvilWickedness
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The Argentine tango isn’t here to play nicely with the other children. The Argentine tango is here to seduce your women, spill things on your rug, and sneak out your bedroom window in the middle...

—Seanan McGuire

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By God, if women had written stories,As clerks had within here oratories,They would have written of men more wickednessThan all the mark of Adam may redress.

—Geoffrey Chaucer

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When Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning-rod, the clergy, both in England and America, with the enthusiastic support of George III, condemned it as an impious attempt to defeat the will of God. For, as all...

—Benjamin Franklin

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If blood can produce money through rituals or the so-called human sacrifice, then it is the basis on which we live, so it is very essential to save and protect it from the fiendish eyes...

—Michael Bassey Johnson

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Here we are up against obvious wickedness.

—Dmitry Yakushkin

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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...

—T.F. Hodge

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I don’t know why wicked places generally look wicked. You’d think they’d look nice, to fool people, but they hardly ever do.

—Lemony Snicket

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You think some are bad or evil or whatnot, but somewhere along the way they were someone’s baby, suckling the teat like anybody. Then something puts a volt in ’em and they ain’t the same...

—Alan Heathcock

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Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop; the gut expanded to take in more and more.

—John Updike

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The best reason for committing loathsome and detestable acts–and let’s face it, I am considered something of an expert in this field–is purely for their own sake. Monetary gain is all very well, but it...

—Jasper Fforde

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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

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Children are being killed, because some “adults” think life is a game.Something is amiss.When children shoot up other children in school, it’s a national tragedy, and a week of mourning.When grown men are killing unarmed...

—Justin K.

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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 Gustav

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Allow yourself to see the good in people. Not every sinister face harbors a wicked heart.

—Nike Thaddeus

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What a lamentable thing it is that men should blame the gods and regard us as the source of their troubles, when it is their own wickedness that brings them sufferings worse than any which...

—Homer

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

—Terry Pratchett

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Wickedness never rests easily so, in a way, one might almost feel pity for the wicked, for they are destined to live their lives in fear, in a prison of the heart.

—John Connolly

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The victim is always morally superior to the master; that is the victim’s ambivalent triumph. That is why there have been so few notoriously wicked women in comparison to the number of notoriously wicked men;...

—Angela Carter

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Franval, who was now absolutely at ease, thought on,y of upsetting others; he behaved in his vindictive, unruly, impetuous way when he was disturbed; he desired his own tranquility again at any price, and in...

—Marquis de

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You have not realized yet that both of you are mine, have you?

—D.S. Wrights

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

—Terry Pratchett

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No matter how an individual views Satan, whether they believe that he is a real character or that he is just the product of literary scholars and imaginations, no one can deny that each one...

—Nwaocha Ogechukwu

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I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn’t find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away from the highest substance – You oh God – towards inferior things, rejecting its own inner life...

—Augustine of Hippo

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Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy! Oh, Satan! one and unique God of my soul, inspire thou in me something yet more, present further perversions...

—Marquis de

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

—G.K. Chesterton

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Raped at age nine by a relative and pregnant at 14 Oprah Winfrey,like many others have experienced the wickedness and brutality ofour society. Sadly, it’s an environment where blood lines no longerhold.

—Oche Otorkpa

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They said there was no rest for the wicked. In fact, there was rest neither for the virtuous nor the wicked, nor for guys like Billy, who were uncommitted regarding the whole idea of virtue...

—Dean Koontz

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Displaying vice to the mockery of men deals it a great blow. Men put up with admonition but are loath to be mocked. One might be willing to be wicked; one cannot bear to appear...

—Moliere

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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...

—Jane Austen

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A wicked mortal is not the idea of God. He is little else than the expression of error. To suppose that sin, lust, hatred, envy, hypocrisy, revenge, have life abiding in them, is a terrible...

—Mary Eddy

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He made a pit and digged it. He was cunning in his plans and industrious in his labors. He stooped to the dirty work of digging. He did not fear to soil his own hands....

—Charles H. Spurgeon

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In fact, now you mention the subject, I have been very bad in my own small way.I don’t think you should be so proud of that, though I am sure it must have been very...

—Oscar Wilde

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Isn’t that the way God works? She’d thought. He takes the things in our lives that are ugly, disgusting, and downright wicked, and transforms them into something magnificent.

—J.E.B. Spredemann

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I have a hundred times heard him say, that all ages and nations have represented their gods as wicked, in a constantly increasing progression; that mankind have gone on adding trait after trait till they...

—John Stuart Mill

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I loathe, detest, hate and abominate the block, the gibbet, the rack, the pillory and the faggots with equal passion,” said the old man vehemently. “Not only are they devilishly cruel but they are not...

—Elizabeth Goudge

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Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it...

—Thomas Paine

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You are vain and wicked- as a genius should be.

—Günter Grass

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Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.

—Mae West

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Then Anu and Bel called by name me, Hammurabi, the exalted prince, who feared God, to bring about the rule of righteousness in the land, to destroy the wicked and the evil-doers; so that the...

—Code of

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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...

—Thomas Paine

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All things truly wicked start from innocence.

—Ernest Hemingway

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