Wickedness

Wickedness

Wickedness, is generally considered a synonym for evil or sinfulness. Among theologians and philosophers, it has the more specific meaning of evil committed consciously and of free will.

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Famous quotes containing the word wickedness:

    “All wickedness is but little to the wickedness of a woman.”
    —Apocrypha. Ecclesiasticus 7:26.

    “Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.... The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.”
    —Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)