#wickedness

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

— Kurt Vonnegut

#food #wickedness #food

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

— John Updike

#wickedness #food

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

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

— Glinda Wicked the musical

#wicked #wickedness #music

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

— Robert Hunter

#given #grace #how #light #little

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

— David Herbert Lawrence

#evil #makes #passionate #refuse #rotten

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

— Lucretius

#heights #men #religion #such #which

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

— Bob Riley

#consumed #evil #good #good people #leads

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#doctor #lawyer #mankind #sees #stupidity

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

— Laurence Sterne

#more #occasions #other #put #sin