The world is increasing in wickedness.
There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.
Wickedness is its own punishment.
War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
What is their potential for evil; what is their potential for wickedness? That's the only time that those characters become interesting to watch.
According to this way of arguing, there will be no true principles in the world; for there are none but what may be wrested and perverted to serve bad purposes, either through the weakness or wickedness of men.
Sin leads to wickedness and to hearts that become hardened to things of the Spirit.
My first black-on-black picture was 'The Portrait of an Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self.' I started using it as an emblem of this undercurrent of wickedness, malevolence, and irony - all of that.
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means.
