#wickedness

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

— Joseph Conrad

#belief #capable #every #evil #men

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

— Geoffrey Chaucer

#dishonesty #evil #gender #inequality #men

Are people born wicked? Or do they have wickedness thrust upon them? ↗

— Glinda Wicked the musical

#wicked #wickedness #music

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

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

— Terry Pratchett

#good-and-evil #temptation #wickedness #opportunity

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

— Jawe Querimit

#wicked-people #wickedness #men

money,if it does not bring you happiness,it will atleast help you be miserable in comfort ↗

— Helen Gurley Brown

#wickedness #money

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

— Jennifer Beals

#characters #evil #interesting #only #only time

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

— Francis Beaumont

#grows #man #method #up #wickedness

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. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#deny #essential #great #kind #petty