#wickedness

Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness. ↗

— Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

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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 reached the most perfect conception of wickedness which the human mind could devise, and have called this God, and prostrated themselves before it. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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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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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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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

#contemplation #goodness #our #own #solely

Wickedness is its own punishment. ↗

— Francis Quarles

#punishment #wickedness

In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil. ↗

— Anna Jameson

#begins #either #ends #evil #fanaticism

Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness. ↗

— Sophocles

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

— A. J. P. Taylor

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Of all the living, man is the most wicked. Love for the good it has done or hate it for all the bad. ↗

— Sachidanand Das

#wickedness #love