Top Wickedness Quotes
It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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
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
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
Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.
Stephen Fry
Billy Sunday 
Carl Jung 
Bob Riley 
Denis Diderot 
Lydia M. Child 
David Herbert Lawrence 
Stephen Fry 
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It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.
Niccolo Machiavelli 
58% of people like this quote
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
56% of people like this quote
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
56% of people like this quote
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
56% of people like this quote
Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.
Stephen Fry
54% of people like this quote
Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.
A. J. P. Taylor
54% of people like this quote
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
54% of people like this quote
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
54% of people like this quote
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
Joseph Conrad
53% of people like this quote
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SophoclesDavid Herbert LawrenceBilly SundayArthur Schopenhauer ConfuciusJames MadisonCarl JungDenis DiderotNiccolo MachiavelliJoseph ConradHerman MelvilleLaurence SterneStephen FryBob RileyFrancis Quarles
Jennifer Beals Lucretius OrigenJonathan MayhewJohn Jay ChapmanLydia M. ChildA. J. P. TaylorFrancis BeaumontAnna JamesonIsidore Ducasse LautreamontRobert HunterThomas MellonStijn StreuvelsCamilla P. Bowles
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