Quotes about evil
evil done wickedness
More harm is done by fools through foolishness than is done by evil-doers through wickedness.
evil progress goes-on
The greatest evils of society are goods that have refused to go on, but have sat down on the highway, saying to the world, "We stop here; do you stop also. Julia Ward Howe
evil temptation matter
From the cradle to the grave, temptations all around. But no matter how good the fix, its gonna take you down. Keith Urban
evil good grace hear tendencies
Hear good things, see good, do good, think good, then you get the Grace of God, as all the evil tendencies will be uprooted. Sathya Baba
evil love money pierced root themselves
For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
evil tolerance world
Tolerance is the last virtue of a depraved society. When an immoral society has blatantly and proudly violated all the commandments, it insists upon one last virtue, tolerance for its immorality. It will not tolerate condemnation of its perversions. It creates a whole new world in which only the intolerant critic of intolerable evil is evil. Hutton Gibson
evil support world
The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance and support life, and evil is an absence of the inclination of matter to be at peace. Gregory Maguire
evil world this-world
It isn’t hard to find evil in this world. Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow.
evil littles hermione
Hermione: You! You foul, loathsome, evil little cocroach! Ron: Hermione, no! He's no worth it. J. K. Rowling
evil democracy doctrine
The doctrine that the cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy is like saying that the cure of crime is more crime. H. L. Mencken
evil murderer
Word to God, we murderers. Ja Rule
evil wicked behind-the-scenes
I'm the evil mastermind behind the scenes. I'm the wicked puppeteer who pulls the strings and makes you dance. I'm your writer. Grant Morrison
evil welcome ifs
Welcome evill, if thou commest alone. [Welcome evil, if thou comest alone.] George Herbert
evil good-against-evil
Set good against evill. [Set good against evil.]
evil enemy add
When, however, you have an enemy, then do not requite him good for evil: for that would shame him. Instead, prove that he did some good for you. And rather be angry than put to shame! And when you are cursed, I do not like it that you want to bless. Rather curse a little also! And if you are done a great injustice, then quickly add five small ones. Hideous to behold is he who is obsessed with an injustice. Friedrich Nietzsche
evil want goodness
Of all evil I deem you capable: therefore I want the good from you.
evil age reverberation
What an age experiences as evil is usually an untimely reverberation echoing what was previously experienced as good--the atavismof an older ideal.
evil soul
Narrow souls I cannot abide; There's almost no good or evil inside
evil may done
Whatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm.
evil enemy shame
If you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good.
evil individuality fundamentals
What is wanted - whether this is admitted or not - is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, indeed weakening and abolition of the individual: one never tires of enumerating and indicating all that is evil and inimical, prodigal, costly, extravagant in the form individual existence has assumed hitherto, one hopes to manage more cheaply, more safely, more equitably, more uniformly if there exist only large bodies and their members.
evil groups madness
Madness is the exception in individuals but the rule in groups.
evil gains our-lives
The great epochs of our life come when we gain the courage to rechristen our evil as what is best in us.
evil sovereign bounds
Evil Rulers Are Never Beyond The Bounds of God's Sovereign Will Jerry Bridges
evil leaving suffering
Death is not an evil, because it frees us from all evils, and while it takes away good things, it takes away also the desire for them. Old age is the supreme evil, because it deprives us of all pleasures, leaving us only the appetite for them, and it brings with it all sufferings. Nevertheless, we fear death, and we desire old age. Giacomo Leopardi
evil done agents
I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good or evil, has been done freely; I am a free agent. Giacomo Casanova
evil hatred quality
The evil that we do does not attract to us so much persecution and hatred as our good qualities. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
evil justice doe
God has ordained the state as a delegated authority; it is not autonomous. The state is to be an agent of justice, to restrain evil by punishing the wrongdoer, and to protect the good in society. When it does the reverse, it has no proper authority. It is then a usurped authority and as such it becomes lawless and is tyranny. Francis Schaeffer
evil pluck
Better one thorn pluck'd out than all remain. Horace
evil joy suffering
The melancholy joys of evils pass'd, For he who much has suffer'd, much will know. Homer
evil
And would'st thou evil for his good repay?
evil looks woe
Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies.
evil ends journalist
Journalists grow accustomed to seeing evil and they let it pass; they proceed to approve it, and they end by committing it themselves. Honore de Balzac