Quotes about evil
evil trouble hell
I knew I was in trouble, but I thought I was in hell. Elvis Costello
evil association violence
Its [Communism's] unfortunate association with violence encourages a certain evil tendency in human beings. Jawaharlal Nehru
evil poison grows
Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.
evil regimes interest
As so often happens in politics, what appears to be politically expedient for those in power rarely overlaps with the public interest. The lesser evils of the regime become entrenched, while the greater good is never realized. Jason Stearns
evil knows know-how
True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good--and we all know how rare that is... Jasper Fforde
evil occupation idleness
Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil.... Hippocrates
evil decision doe
The closed language does not demonstrate and explain it communicates decision, dictum, command. Where it defines, the definition becomes "separation of good from evil;" it establishes unquestionable Herbert Marcuse
evil despair world
There's only one great evil in the world today. Despair. Evelyn Waugh
evil people trying
People always try to find base motives behind every good action. We are afraid of pure goodness and of pure evil. Eugene Ionesco
evil feels immoral
Only that which makes you feel bad after doing is immoral. Ernest Hemingway
evil good-against-evil fighting-evil
Being against evil doesn't make you good.
evil long doe
We human beings cause monstrous conditions, but precisely because we cause them we soon learn to adapt ourselves to them. Only if we become such that we can no longer adapt ourselves, only if, deep inside, we rebel against every kind of evil, will we be able to put a stop to it. ... while everything within us does not yet scream out in protest, so long will we find ways of adapting ourselves, and the horrors will continue. Etty Hillesum
evil christian-inspirational people
If there is one single reason why good people turn evil, it is because they fail to recognize God’s ownership over their kingdom, their vocation, their resources, their abilities, and above all their lives. Erwin W. Lutzer
evil hoarding benefits
At times like the present, when the evils of unsound finance threaten us, the speculator may anticipate a harvest gathered from the misfortune of others, the capitalist may protect himself by hoarding or may even find profit in the fluctuations of values; but the wage earner - the first to be injured by a depreciated currency and the last to receive the benefit of its correction - is practically defenseless. Grover Cleveland
evil giving tables
Evil is an act, not an appetite. How many haven't wanted to slash the throat of some boor across the dining room table? Present company excepted of course. Everyone has the appetite. If you give in to it, it, that act is evil. The appetite is normal. Gregory Maguire
evil empty empty-words
And empty words are evil. Homer
evil degrees may
I am not an absolute pacifist, because I can't rule out the possibility that under some, carefully defined circumstances, some degree of violence may be justified, if it is focused directly at a great evil. Howard Zinn
evil age wickedness
What has this unfeeling age of ours left untried, what wickedness has it shunned? Horace
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.