This also is a part of the Church's teaching, that the world was made and took its beginning at a certain time, and is to be destroyed on account of its wickedness.
Origen

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

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.
Confucius

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

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

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

When may a revival be expected? When the wickedness of the wicked grieves and distresses the Christian.
Billy Sunday

Wickedness is its own punishment.
Francis Quarles