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How to use the word Wickedness in a Sentence?

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The silence of the virtuous is the loudest endorsement of wickedness. -Aloo Denish Obiero

Aloo Denish Obiero

added by Aloo-Denish
4 months ago

This tragedy in Europe seems to have awakened many people to the reality of evil, they see that human wickedness can be brutal and causes so much human suffering.

Shane Williamson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

one thing about this pandemic is sure-it has brought the hidden injustices and inequities in a racially flawed system in america of the abject conditions of the poor to the rich man's door. America cannot hide from it's hate and racially motivated wickedness against black people. Black people in america must now-wise up- and seek their own destiny. Sufferings has been -much too long!

RAS CARDO REGGAE

added by RASCARDOFROMTRENCHTOWN
3 years ago

Regrettably, the inhumanity of rape is still being perpetrated ... this wickedness must be brought to an end.

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

While the people retain their virtue, and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government, in the short space of four years.

Abraham Lincoln

added by anonymous
10 years ago

For mortal men there is but one hell, and that is the folly and wickedness and spite of his fellows; but once his life is over, there's an end to it: his annihilation is final and entire, of him nothing survives.

Marquis de Sade

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Wickedness, by whomsoever committed, is odious, but most of all in men of learning; for learning is the weapon with which Satan is combated, and when a man is made captive with arms in his hand his shame is more excessive.

Saadi Shirazi

added by anonymous
12 years ago

The wicked have no stability, for they do not remain in consistency with themselves; they continue friends only for a short time, rejoicing in each other?s wickedness.

Aristotle

added by anonymous
12 years ago

Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the bible is filled, it would seem more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.

Thomas Paine, "The Age of Reason"

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Virtuous motives, trammeled by inertia and timidity, are no match for armed and resolute wickedness. A sincere love of peace is no excuse for muddling hundreds of millions of humble folk into total war. The cheers of the weak, well-meaning assemblies soon cease to count. Doom marches on.

Sir Winston Churchill, March 1936, demanding British re-armament

added by anonymous
13 years ago

To harken to evil conversation is the road to wickedness.. (Pravis Assuescere Sermonibus Est Via Ad Rem Ipsam)

Anonymous

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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

Joesph Conrad, "Carnival of Wit"

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Whenever we read the obscene stories, voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortous executions, the unrelenting vindictivenes, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistant that we called it the word of a Demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind, and, for my part, I sincerly detest it as I detest everything that is cruel.

Thomas Paine

added by anonymous
13 years ago

... If weakness may excuse, What Murderer, what Traitor, Parricide, Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it All Wickedness is Weakness That plea therefore With God or Man will gain thee no Remission.

John Milton

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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

Joseph Conrad

added by anonymous
14 years ago

If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Benjamin Franklin

added by anonymous
14 years ago

To harken to evil conversation is the road to wickedness..

Anonymous

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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