Quotes about evil
evil sitting shelves
You got me sitting on the shelf, while you're out bewitching someone else. Jimi Hendrix
evil fifteen riding
Been riding broomsticks since she was fifteen.
evil world haunting
The world we suggest is a new wild west. A sensuous evil world. Strange and haunting, the path of the sun… Jim Morrison
evil violence infatuation
Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.
evil weakness belief
His weakness was his belief that evil had boundaries. Erik Larson
evil cures
Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant. John Henry Newman
evil substance excess
Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
evil
To see evil and not call it evil is evil. John Hagee
evil farewell good hope thou
So farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear, Farewell Remorse: all Good to me is lost; Evil be thou my Good John Milton
evil good news rides
Evil news rides post, while good news bates
evil ignorance misuse
evil is not power; it is ignorance and misuse of good. James Allen
evil finds individual itself large nor reason respond rhyme small wherever willing
Evil finds itself in the large cities, the small cities, the villages, ... Wherever there is an individual who is willing to respond to that evil, you're going to find it. I don't think there is rhyme nor reason to this.
evil please unwilling
I am unwilling to be wholly good—and please don't regard me as wholly evil! Ayn Rand
evil choices alternatives
When you have established that one alternative is good and the other is evil, there is no justification for the choice of a mixture. There is no justification ever for choosing any part of what you know to be evil.
evil use moral
All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative.
evil neutrality sanctions
To discuss evil in a manner implying neutrality, is to sanction it.
evil justice suffering
When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; when one saves the guilty from suffering, it is the innocent whom one forces to suffer. There is no escape from justice, nothing can be unearned and unpaid for in the universe, neither in matter nor in spirit—and if the guilty do not pay, then the innocent have to pay it.
evil historical literature
Evil requires the sanction of the victim.
evil catholic doubt
It is odd that neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point. At what point sin begins is a matter as to which casuists differ. One eminently orthodox Catholic divine laid it down that a confessor may fondle a nun's breasts, provided he does it without evil intent. But I doubt whether modern authorities would agree with him on this point. Bertrand Russell
evil stupidity important
Much of the most important evils that mankind have to consider are those which they inflict upon each other through stupidity or malevolence or both.
evil good-and-evil affair
It was only one life. What is one life in the affairs of a state? Benito Mussolini
evil world able
We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.
evil silence faces
Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
evil giving romance
You need not attempt to shake off or to banter off Romance. It is an evil you will never get rid of to the end of your days. It is a part of yourself ... of your soul. Age will only mellow it a little, and give it a holier tone. Edgar Allan Poe
evil effort purpose
practically nothing we do ever stands by itself. If it is good, it will serve some good purpose in the future. If it is evil, it may haunt us and handicap our efforts in unimagined ways. Eleanor Roosevelt
evil forgives love punishment reward shall surely whoever
And the recompense of evil is punishment like it, but whoever forgives and amends, he shall have his reward from Allah; surely He does not love the unjust.
evil fear leads
Often the fear of one evil leads us into a worse.
evil orator speakers-and-speaking
An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.
evil intelligence support
See No Evil. We had support in the intelligence sectors. Stephen Gaghan
evil premature root
Premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming. Donald Knuth
evil good judgments knows psychology
Psychology does not know what good and evil are in themselves; it knows them only as judgments about relationships.
evil people
People thought we were evil or satanic rockers.
evil manners opened smoothed woman
An ivory-faced and silvery-haired old woman opened the door. She had an evil face, smoothed by hypocrisy; but her manners were excellent.