#wickedness

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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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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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

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

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

— Francis Beaumont

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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

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

— Robert Hunter

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

— Lucretius

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

— James Madison

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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

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