Quotes about evil
evil suffering together
It is better to suffer wrong than to do wrong, because you can remain the friend of the sufferer; who would want to be the friend of and have to live together with a murderer? Not even another murderer. Hannah Arendt
evil apathy thrive
Evil thrives on apathy and cannot exist without it.
evil weakness forget
Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil.
evil strange interdependence
There is a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil.
evil people littles
He asks how the evil is to be remedied. I tell him that there seems to be little chance for avoiding the extremes of despotism or anarchy; that the only ground of hope must be the morals of the people, but that these are, I fear, too corrupt. Gouverneur Morris
evil greed mind
To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil. Gore Vidal
evil done guts
Was aus Liebe getan wird, geschieht immer jenseits von Gut und Böse. (What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.) Friedrich Nietzsche
evil judging ideals
Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.
evil unjust
[Heraclitus] concluded that coming-to-be itself could not be anything evil or unjust.
evil age golden
The golden age, when rambunctious spirits were regarded as the source of evil.
evil doe horror
When horror is associated with what is harmful, evil results, when disgust does, badness.
evil redemption morality
This is the crux of the moral pessimists: if they really wanted to promote their neighbor's redemption, then they would have to resolve themselves to spoiling existence for him, and thus to being his misfortune; out of pity, they would have to--become evil!
evil long people
A sure way to irritate people and to put evil thoughts into their heads is to keep them waiting a long time. This makes them immoral.
evil earth forests
We should conserve evil just as we should conserve the forests. It is true that by thinning and clearing the forests the earth grew warmer.
evil judging people
Prejudice of the learned. - The learned judge correctly that people of all ages have believed they know what is good and evil, praise- and blameworthy. But it is a prejudice of the learned that we now know better than any other age.
evil poverty firsts
The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor. George Bernard Shaw
evil poverty crime
The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.
evil policy
My only policy is to profess evil and do good.
evil pardon
Those who understand evil pardon it.
evil good-and-evil justified
I am justified. For I chose wisdom and the knowledge of good and evil ; and now there is no evil; and wisdom and good are one. It is enough.
evil saws firsts
The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL; but as the inscription was on the outside, the prisoners could not read it.
evil deception trying
Everything is deception: seeking the minimum of illusion, keeping within the ordinary limitations, seeking the maximum. In the first case one cheats the Good, by trying to make it too easy for oneself to get it, and the Evil by imposing all too unfavorable conditions of warfare on it. In the second case one cheats the Good by keeping as aloof from it as possible, and the Evil by hoping to make it powerless through intensifying it to the utmost. Franz Kafka
evil whiplash motive
The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil.
evil demand accepted
When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands to be believed.
evil doe paradise
In Paradise, as always: that which causes the sin and that which recognizes it for what it is are one. The clear conscience is Evil, which is so entirely victorious that it does not any longer consider the leap from left to right necessary.
evil literature madness
Evil is whatever distracts.
evil giving groups
There is nothing inhuman, evil, or irrational which does not give some comfort, provided it is shared by a group. Erich Fromm
evil stupidity benefits
Satire always benefits when evil and stupidity collide. Gary Shteyngart
evil support comfort
Evils have their comfort, good none can support. George Herbert
evil identity injustice
Battling evil, cruelty, and injustice allows us to retain our identity, a sense of meaning, and ultimately our freedom. Chris Hedges
evil gears kind
I've always had a fondness for that satirical, Terry Gilliam - esque evil corporate megastructure, the kind of business that hangs banners that say making your life better as it throws kittens into the gears. Chris Hardwick
evil abuse satire
Satire is an abuse of wit. It corrects few evils.
evil way poverty
Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.