Quotes about evil
evil heaven islam
God, the devil, good, evil, it's all in our heads, not in Heaven or Hell, which we also invented. We do not realize that, having invented God, we immediately became His slaves. Jose Saramago
evil
We are free, but no to be evil Jose Marti
evil people political
We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from.
evil weight want
If you want to lose weight, whole-wheat bread, couscous, and quinoa are evil. Jorge Cruise
evil upset dignity
There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite. Jorge Luis Borges
evil spheres ethics
One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
evil suffering defeat
God turns on its head one form of evil - suffering - in order to defeat another form of evil - that is, our transgressions. It happened at the cross, and it occurs in the lives of followers of Christ every day. Joni Eareckson Tada
evil old-testament depiction
The God of the Old Testament is the depiction of evil. Joni Mitchell
evil dens dies
The Evil One has left, the evil ones remain. [Ger., Den Bosen sind sie los, die Bosen sind geblieben.] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
evil genocide prelude
Evil, unchecked, is the prelude to genocide. - Anonymous Joel C. Rosenberg
evil risk threat
To misunderstand the nature and threat of evil is to risk being blindsided by it.
evil cop robbers
There's good and evil going on. We have cops. We have robbers. Joe Mantegna
evil chocolate battle
The battle of good and evil reduced to a fat woman standing in front of a chocolate shop, saying, Will I? Won’t I? in pitiful indecision. Joanne Harris
evil rats doe
A rat is neither good nor evil. It does what a rat has to do. Jo Nesbo
evil love money root
The love of money is the root of all evil.
evil gita action
My Gita tells me that evil can never result from a good action. Mahatma Gandhi
evil casual nature-of-evil
The true nature of evil is that it is so very casual. James St. James
evil joy suffering
The problem of evil is raised more often by spectators of life than the actual combatants. You will hardly ever find that the great sufferers are the great skeptics. James Stewart
evil slavery merit
The magnitude of this evil among us is so deeply felt, and so universally acknowledged, that no merit could be greater than that of devising a satisfactory remedy for it. James Madison
evil done slavery
If slavery, as a national evil, is to be abolished, and it be just that it be done at the national expense, the amount of the expense is not a paramount consideration.
evil judging personality
No sin is committed merely because a thought enters the mind, provided it is not made welcome. Perhaps we may use the figure that the thought first passes into an anteroom, where it stands before the mind acting as a judge. No matter how sordid or evil, it has not touched the personality with its infamy nor in any way laid guilt upon the soul unless and until the mind acting as judge admits it with a welcome. If the mind decides against it and dismisses it, the personality is not only unsullied but is, on the contrary, by this act of rejection stimulated and strengthened in moral power. Norman Vincent Peale
evil heaven moral
How evil life must be if it were indeed necessary that such imploring cries, such cries of physical and moral wretchedness, should ever and ever ascend to heaven! Emile Zola
evil personality destruction
The destruction of the personality is the great evil of the time. Ellen Key
evil definitions different
One person's definition of evil is another person's different definition. Eric Schmidt
evil religion want
Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to. Epictetus
evil continuing subjects
Necessity is an evil; but there is no necessity for continuing to live subject to necessity. Epicurus
evil feels
There is nothing to fear from gods, There is nothing to feel in death, Good can be attained, Evil can be endured.
evil injustice offense
Injustice is not evil in itself, but only in the fear and apprehension that one will not escape those who have been set up to punish the offense.
evil religion atheism
Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can and does not want to. If he wants to, but cannot, he is impotent. If he can, but does not want to, he is wicked. If, as they say, God can abolish evil, and God really wants to do it, why is there evil in the world?
evil soul body
Fortune is an evil chain to the body, and vice to the soul.
evil special able
The cause of all human evils is the not being able to apply general principles to special cases.
evil betrayed libertarian
Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.
evil doe
So far any one shuns evils, so far as he does good. Emanuel Swedenborg