Quotes about evil
evil statesmen statesmanship
It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil. Charles Caleb Colton
evil choices goods
Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods.
evil decision choices
Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
evil growth rapids
No propagation or multiplication is more rapid that that of evil, unless it be checked; no growth more certain.
evil giving decision
Accustom yourself to submit on all and every occasion, and on the most minute, no less than on the most important circumstances of life, to a small present evil, to obtain a greater distant good. This will give decision, tone, and energy to the mind, which, thus disciplined, will often reap victory from defeat and honor from repulse.
evil unhappy ends
Good never come of such evil, a happier end was not in nature to so unhappy a beginning. Charles Dickens
evil hatred debt
It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse.
evil wells decided
It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'. Charles Simmons
evil confusion people
We're living in a fearful time. Since 9/11 people have become more afraid than before, because of terrorism. There's a lot of confusion about evil, where it's all coming from. Charles Stanley
evil would-be action
If we do wrong and no harm comes of it, we are not thereby justified. If we did evil and good came of it, the evil would be just as evil. It is not the result of the action, but the action itself which God weighs. Charles Spurgeon
evil imagination worst
The worst evils of life are those which do not exist except in our imagination.
evil good-and-evil incompetence
Evil is a form of incompetence. Alan Bullock
evil use may
The main thing is this: we should never blame anyone or anything for our defeats. No matter how evil their intentions may be, they are altogether unable to harm us until we begin to blame them and use them as excuses for our own unbelief. Aiden Wilson Tozer
evil guy trying
The evil of storytelling is you're trying to make the audience complicit in murder - 'Kill the guy! Jump him!' And then once you've done it, it's like, 'I've killed this guy, now what? Bruno Heller
evil greed world
There was no more good or evil in this world than we imagine there to be, either out of greed or out of innocence. Or sometimes madness. Carlos Ruiz Zafon
evil defeated
Evil cannot be accommodated. It must be defeated. Cal Thomas
evil demon restraint
We tolerate, even promote, many things we once regarded as evil, wrong, or immoral. And then we seek "explanations" for an act that seems beyond comprehension. Remove societal restraints on some evils and one can expect the demons to be freed to conduct other evil acts.
evil gone trouble
No evil lost is wailed when it is gone. William Shakespeare
evil boredom spheres
Nobody has any right to find life uninteresting or unrewarding who sees within the sphere of his own activity a wrong he can help to remedy, or within himself an evil he can hope to overcome. Charles William Eliot
evil serial-killer world
To me, this world is nothing but evil, and my own evil just happened to come out cause of the circumstances of what I was doing. Aileen Wuornos
evil understanding may
You may never understand How the stranger is inspired For he is not always evil, And he is not always wrong. Billy Joel
evil waiting heaven
They say there's a heaven for those who wait, some say it's better I say it ain't.
evil choices taxation
Taxation under every form presents but a choice of evils. David Ricardo
evil religion doe
If God is omnipotent, omniscient and wholly good, whence evil? If God wills to prevent evil but cannot, then He is not omnipotent. If He can prevent evil but does not, then he is not good. In either case he is not God. David Hume
evil design temptation
God designs that those whom He sanctifies...shall tarry awhile in this present evil world, that their own experience of temptations may teach them how great the deliverance is, which God has wrought for them. David Brainerd
evil accepting
Those who won't accept evil never get anything good. August Strindberg
evil liberty libertarian
The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder. Frederic Bastiat
evil special purpose
Juvenile delinquency serves many purposes, including that of providing sadistic adults with fantasies suited to their special tastes. Edgar Friedenberg
evil want helping
For me, Spotify is not even a necessary evil. It helps me do what I want to do. Ed Sheeran
evil may coping
Whatever may be our condition in life, it is better to lay hold of its advantages than to count its evils. Edwin Hubbel Chapin
evil overcoming way
The way to overcome evil is to love something that is good.
evil human-nature inherent
There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil. Benjamin Haydon
evil criticism necessary-evil
A critic is a necessary evil, and criticism is an evil necessity. Carolyn Wells