Quotes about evil
evil joy sorrow
All societies are evil, sorrowful, inequitable; and so they will always be. So if you really want to help this world, what you will have to teach is how to live in it. And that no one can do who has not himself learned how to live in it in the joyful sorrow and sorrowful joy of the knowledge of life as it is. Joseph Campbell
evil lessons way
Evil cannot be overcome by more evil. Evil can only be overcome by good. It is the lesson of the way of love. Peace Pilgrim
evil hatred messages
Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love. The message isn't new, but we haven't learned to live it yet.
evil ego twins
You have an evil twin who is always with you. He is called your ego. Peter Kreeft
evil answers paper
The best answer to the problem of evil is not one so much found on paper but on wood.
evil would-be three
It is said that there are three sources of evil, "the world, the flesh, and the Devil"; but the world and the flesh would be innocent were it not for the Devil.
evil judgement doe
Our judgements of good and evil ... presuppose God as the standard. If there's no God, there's neither good nor evil. There's just nature doing what it does
evil friendly world
Until we stop clinging to the concept of good and evil, the world will continue to manifest as friendly goddesses and harmful demons. Pema Chodron
evil soul monsters
If the fiercest conglomerate monsters had souls, with all that implied, who could condemn them as evil? Piers Anthony
evil good-and-evil
We do good by ourselves, but we seldom do wrong alone. Phyllis Bottome
evil freedom-of-speech intellectual
Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite so good. Philip Pullman
evil poverty citizens
There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil. Plato
evil progress fables
The evil arising from mental improvement can be corrected only by a still further progress in that very improvement. Either morality is a fable, or the more enlightened we are, the more attached to it we become. Madame de Stael
evil liberty grows
Where liberty dies, evil grows. Hamid Karzai
evil weapons needed
I have always felt as though I needed a weapon against evil. Gordon Parks
evil allowing
I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand.
evil nine excuse
Nine times out of ten it is the coarse word that condemns an evil, and the refined word that excuses it. Gilbert K. Chesterton
evil common nonsense
To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil. John Dryden
evil may valiant
I am devilishly afraid, that's certain; but ... I'll sing, that I may seem valiant.
evil growth world
The destruction of the inducement to invest by an excessive liquidity-preference was the outstanding evil, the prime impediment to the growth of wealth, in the ancient and medieval worlds. John Maynard Keynes
evil long mind
The spectacle of modern investment markets has sometimes moved me towards the conclusion that to make the purchase of an investment permanent and indissoluble, like marriage, except by reason of death or other grave cause, might be a useful remedy for our contemporary evils. For this would force the investor to direct his mind to the long-term prospects and to those only.
evil heaven looks
I'm not a god or the God, but we're all God and we're all potentially divine — and potentially evil. We all have everything within us and the Kingdom of Heaven is nigh and within us, and if you look hard enough you'll see it. John Lennon
evil political religion
We're all God. I'm not a god or the God, but we're all God and we're all potentially divine-and potentially evil.
evil-within racist our-society
Bigotry or prejudice in any form is more than a problem; it is a deep-seated evil within our society. Judith Light
evil used worst
Even the best things ill used become evils; and, contrarily, the worst things used well prove good. Joseph Hall
evil unity neutrality
Neutrality in things good or evil is both odious and prejudicial; but in matters of an indifferent nature is safe and commendable. Herein taking of parts maketh sides, and breaketh unity. In an unjust cause of separation, he that favoreth both parts may perhaps have least love of either side, but hath most charity in himself.
evil childhood darkness
How deep and sticky is the darkness of childhood, how rigid the blades of infant evil, which is unadulterated, unrestrained by the convenient cushions of age and its civilizing anesthesia. Katherine Dunn
evil dull worst
Evil is dull, that is the worst of it ... Katherine Anne Porter
evil people dolls
I'm not evil, but some people are freaked out by a living doll. Josh Ryan Evans
evil may affection
If society will adopt the rule of nature, and justify no marriage without a supreme affection, the evils of marriage without love will be sufficiently cured. Those who marry without the consent of Nature may securely expect trouble. Joseph Cook
evil earth would-be
If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil. Joseph de Maistre
evil conquer cheat
Neither love nor evil conquers all, but evil cheats more. Laurell K. Hamilton
evil trying balance
Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil.