Definition of Wickedness

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Definition of Wickedness
	Wickedness The quality or state of being wicked; departure from the rules of the divine or the moral law; evil disposition or practices; immorality; depravity; sinfulness. A wicked thing or act; crime; sin; iniquity. Related Definitions: Act, Being, Crime, Departure, Depravity, Disposition, Divine, Evil, From, Immorality, Iniquity, Law, Moral, Of, Or, Quality, Sin, State, The, Thing, Wicked

Wickedness Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

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

There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals.
Herman Melville

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
Joseph Conrad

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

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

Wickedness Translations

wickedness in German is Verruchtheit, Bosheit
wickedness in Italian is nequizia
wickedness in Latin is scelus sceleris, nequitia nequities
wickedness in Spanish is maldad
wickedness in Swedish is elakhet

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