Quotes about evil
evil
Often the fear on one evil leads us into a worse.
evil becoming defeat
We don't defeat evil by becoming evil. Nick Clooney
evil would-be finals
Death, that final evil, is one of the paths to eternity. Endless life in the conditions of our existence would be a nightmare. Nikolai Berdyaev
evil decay sin
The word "salvation" denotes rescue. Rescue? What from? Well, of course, ultimately death. And since it is sin that colludes with the forces of evil and decay, sin leads to death. So we are rescued from sin and death. N. T. Wright
evil claims ifs
If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good. Morris Raphael Cohen
evil liberty wells
True liberty is not liberty to do evil as well as good. John Winthrop
evil messages violence
I have never intended in any of my films to sell violence or to glorify it. Even in the most intense action sequences in my films, there is a message about how evil violence is. John Woo
evil deeds friars
I shall not die, but live; and again declare the evil deeds of the friars. John Wycliffe
evil ornaments railroads
Another of the strange and evil tendencies of the present day is the decoration of the railroad station... There was never more flagrant nor impertinent folly than the smallest portion of ornament in anything connected with the railroads... Railroad architecture has or would have a dignity of its own if it were only left to its work. John Ruskin
evil agents plight
To be robbed and betrayed by a fiendish underground conspiracy, or by the earthly agents of Satan, is at least a romantic sort of plight - it suggests at least a grand Hollywood-ready confrontation between good and evil - but to be coldly ripped off over and over again by a bunch of bloodless, second-rate schmoes, schmoes you chose, you elected, is not something anyone will take much pleasure in bragging about. Matt Taibbi
evil people doe
Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil. Maximilien Robespierre
evil facts needs
To know and not to do is in fact not to know. We need to be active instruments against evil. We need to do. Maya Angelou
evil tree fruit
A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Matthew McConaughey
evil world ifs
If there was such evil in the world, was it possible that there was good, too? Patricia Briggs
evil world monsters
Just as I’ve always known there are monsters in the world, monsters and things even more evil, I’ve always known that it is God who keeps evil at bay.
evil-people action blame
Never accept the blame for what evil people do. We are all responsible for our own actions.
evil
Evil must always be fought.
evil knows
The evil that we know is best. Plautus
evil contentment known
Keep what you have got; the known evil is best. [Lat., Habeas ut nactus; nota mala res optima est.]
evil done bitter
How bitter it is to reap a harvest of evil for good that you have done! [Lat., Ut acerbum est, pro benefactis quom mali messem metas!]
evil minimum
Out of many evils the evil which is least is the least of evils. [Lat., E malis multis, malum, quod minimum est, id minimum est malum.]
evil rewards endure
He who bravely endures evils, in time reaps the reward.
evil
To do wrong is the greatest of evils. Plato
evil dishonorable
All who do evil and dishonorable things do them against their will.
evil desire good-and-evil
When anything is in the presence of evil, but is not as yet evil, the presence of good arouses the desire of good in that thing; but the presence of evil, which makes a thing evil, takes away the desire and friendship of the good; for that which was once both good and evil has now become evil only, and the good has no friendship with evil.
evil harmony virtue
Discordance is evil. Harmony is virtue.
evil praying lord
Lord of Lords, grant us the good whether we pray for it or not, but evil keep from us, even though we pray for it.
evil rewards
There is yet something remaining for the dead, and some far better thing for the good than for the evil.
evil noble return
It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors.
evil wicked turns
Fly from the company of the wicked--fly and turn not back.
evil soul world
To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.
evil heroism antidote
Heroism is the antidote to evil. Philip Zimbardo
evil lines good-and-evil
The line between good and evil is movable and it's permeable.