Quotes about evil
evil world would-be
If He had not known with certainty that He would be Master over sin and that out of evil would evolve the noblest display of His own glory, He would not have permitted it to enter the world. Charles Spurgeon
evil my-best-friend christ
If Christ has died for me, I cannot trifle with the evil that killed my best Friend.
evil my-best-friend sake
If Christ has died for me - ungodly as I am, without strength as I am - then I can no longer live in sin, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me. I cannot trifle with the evil that killed my best Friend. I must be holy for his sake. How can I live in sin when He has died to save me from it?
evil choices slides
You and I are, by birth, by nature, and by choice, inwardly depraved, which is to say that we are entirely corrupt. That's not to say that we have no good in us; we do. However, anything good in us has been tainted with evil. It touches everything. Without the redeeming power of Christ we cannot halt our own moral slide. Charles R. Swindoll
evil imagination soul
Once evil is individualized, becoming part of everyday life, the way of resisting it also becomes individual. How does the soul survive? is the essential question. And the response is: through love and imagination. Azar Nafisi
evil people political
Observe how many people evade, rationalize and drive their minds into a state of blind stupor, in dread of discovering that those they deal with- their "loved ones" or friends or business associates or political rulers- are not merely mistaken, but evil. Observe that this dread leads them to sanction, to help and to spread the very evil whose existence they fear to acknowledge. Ayn Rand
evil justification knows
There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil.
evil matter degrees
Degrees do not matter... one does not bargain about inches of evil.
evil please unwilling
I am unwilling to be wholly good—and please don't regard me as wholly evil!
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 increase interest
Good and evil both increase at compound interest. C. S. Lewis
evil joy free-will
Free will, though it makes evil possible, also makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.
evil goodness spoiled
Badness is only spoiled goodness.
evil doe good-times
Evil can be undone, but it cannot 'develop' into good. Time does not heal it. The spell must be unwound, bit by bit, 'with backward mutters of dissevering power' - or else not.
evil political worship
The descent to hell is easy and those who begin by worshipping power, soon worship evil.
evil demon shoulders
Got demons on both shoulders. Busta Rhymes
evil may facts
We stand on no high moral plateau in our time. We are, in fact, plumbing depths of depravity unknown to our ancestors--and whatever may have been the evil in which they engaged, at least they were willing to acknowledge the principle by which their evil was condemned. We have even turned our back on the principle. Alan Keyes
evil pressure individual
Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests. Alain Badiou
evil moments being-true
Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
evil good
One does evil enough when one does nothing good
evil impulse moral teach wood
One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can. William Wordsworth
evil form hot piece
No one should form an acquaintance with one who has an evil character. A piece of coal, if it is hot burns, and if it's cold, blackens the hands.
evil abortion cry
There must be a remedy even for such a crying evil as this [abortion]. But where shall it be found, at least where begin, if not in the complete enfranchisement and elevation of women? Elizabeth Cady Stanton
evil abortion four
Dr. Oaks made the remark that, according to the best estimate he could make, there were four hundred murders annually produced by abortion in that county alone....There must be a remedy for such a crying evil as this.
evil foreign government heard knew minister mode prime reckless saw sorry spoke three trade wise
The prime minister, the foreign minister and the trade minister were the three wise monkeys: they saw no evil, they spoke no evil, they heard no evil but they knew all about it. It's a sorry story of a government in a mode of reckless negligence.
evil amen
...and deliver me from evil." "Amen. Dave Pelzer