Quotes about evil
evil woe recoil
He for himself weaves woe who weaves for others woe, and evil counsel on the counselor recoils. Hesiod
evil gains disaster
Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster
evil world facts
The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough. Heinrich Heine
evil tolerance religion
Be entirely tolerant or not at all; follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you possess.
evil disease hunger
It is by disease that health is pleasant; by evil that good is pleasant; by hunger, satiety; by weariness, rest. Heraclitus
evil giving people
Whenever education and refinement carry us away from the common people, they are growing towards selfishness, which is the monster evil of the world. That is true cultivation which gives us sympathy with every form of human life, and enables us to work most successfully for its advancement. Refinement that carries us away from our fellow people is not God's refinement. Henry Ward Beecher
evil flavor world
It is a bitter thought to an avaricious spirit that by and by all these accumulations must be left behind. We can only carry away from this world the flavor of our good or evil deeds.
evil left
The Evil One has left, the evil ones remain. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
evil anticipation lost
To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.
evil elements spirit
I am the spirit that negates. And rightly so, for all that comes to be Deserves to perish wretchedly; 'Twere better nothing would begin. Thus everything that that your terms, sin, Destruction, evil represent— That is my proper element.
evil faust
Who are you then?" "I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good.
evil house thieves
You are good when you are one with yourself. Yet when you are not one with yourself you are not evil. For a divided house is not a den of thieves; it is only a divided house. And a ship without rudder may wander aimlessly among perilous isles yet sink not to the bottom. Khalil Gibran
evil saws next
I saw Herschel and he saw me and we stood next to each other because that is what friends do in the presence of evil or love. Jonathan Safran Foer
evil focus succeed
Each one of us has both; good and evil virtues. Those who decide to focus on the good ones succeed in life. Narendra Modi
evil people lazy
The Balopticon [a machine that projects photos on canvas to trace the lines] is an evil, inartistic, habit-forming, lazy and vicious machine! It also is a useful, time-saving, practical and helpful one. I use one often-and am thoroughly ashamed of it. I hide it whenever I hear people coming. Norman Rockwell
evil minorities literature
What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil. Norman Mailer
evil mind machines
The Frenchman Jean-PaulSartre ... had a dialectical mind good as a machine for cybernetics, immense in its way, he could peel a nuance like an onion, but he had no sense of evil, the anguish of God, and the possible existence of Satan.
evil bears scar
Christianity is the only religion whose God bears the scars of evil. Os Guinness
evil judging
In our day it's worse to judge evil than to do evil.
evil hatred police
The most personal thing I've put in [Touch of Evil] is my hatred of the abuse of police power. It's better to see a murderer go free than for a policeman to abuse his power. Orson Welles
evil want way
I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west. Orhan Pamuk
evil deeds possibility
Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished. Orison Swett Marden
evil snow balls
Stop rolling down hill like a snow ball headed for hell. Merle Haggard
evil malevolence shameful
Malevolence is shameful but satisfying. Mason Cooley
evil presidential slavery
No evil can result from its [slavery's] inhibition more pernicious than its toleration. Martin Van Buren
evil libertarian empires
I say one evil empire down...one to go. Michael Moore
evil people democracy
Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil. You have to eliminate it and replace it with something that is good for all people and that something is democracy.
evil faces truth-is
Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil. Menander
evil excess goodness
The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.
evil negative goodness
Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else. Mencius
evil forever deceit
Love binds, and it binds forever. Good binds while evil unravels. Separation is another word for evil; it is also another word for deceit. Michel Houellebecq
evil imaginary
Imaginary evils are incurable. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
evil diversity patriotism
Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. Mahatma Gandhi