Quotes about evil
evil doe persons
A person who knows all that is good and all that is true---as much as can be known---but does not resist evils, knows nothing. Emanuel Swedenborg
evil accepting walks
Never accept evil as something you must walk with, something you deserve. Ellen Hopkins
evil
Evil is not intrinsic. It's fashioned. Ellen Hopkins
evil accepted not-sure
I nod, because I do understand. I'm just not sure how to go about divorcing myself from the evil I've already accepted. Ellen Hopkins
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. Joseph Hall
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. Laurell K. Hamilton
evil different
Different isn't evil, it's just different. Laurell K. Hamilton
evil candy pleasant
Why was so much evil pleasant, pretty on the outside, like poisoned candy? Laurell K. Hamilton
evil giving ordinary
Give a truly good person power, and they’re still a good person. Give a bad person power, and they’re still a bad person. The question is always about the person in between. The one that isn’t evil, or good, but just ordinary. You don’t always know what an ordinary person is like on the inside. Laurell K. Hamilton
evil visuals
More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all. Lars von Trier
evil may triumph
Evil will never find peace. It may triumph, but it will never find peace L. J. Smith
evil charity causes
The best philanthropy is constantly in search of the finalities-a search for a cause, an attempt to cure evils at their source. John D. Rockefeller
evil known tolerable
The best known evil is the most tolerable. Livy
evil silence freedom-of-speech
If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence. Louis D. Brandeis
evil devil firsts
The devil was the first democrat Lord Byron
evil literature mystery
Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil. Lord Byron
evil done way
Quaternions came from Hamilton after his really good work had been done, and though beautifully ingenious, have been an unmixed evil to those who have touched them in any way. Lord Kelvin
evil rooms population
How in heck are they handling their surplus population in Hell these days? Maybe by the time you and I are in the queue there won't be room for us. Malcolm Forbes
evil suffering free-will
We suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them! Maimonides
evil certain existence
The so-called evils are evils only in relation to a certain thing, and that which is evil in relation to a certain existing thing, either includes the non-existence of that thing or the non-existence of some of its good conditions. Maimonides
evil balance world
One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed. Maimonides
evil ears world
To say that God permits evil in the world may not be pleasing to the ear. But if He is held responsible for the good, it follows that He has to be responsible for the evil too. Mahatma Gandhi
evil tolerance may
Tolerance cannot afford to have anything to do with the fallacy that evil may convert itself to good. Freya Stark
evil-within sin evil-things
Sin is not confined to the evil things we do. It is the evil within us, the evil which we are. Karl Barth
evil small-nations nations
Small nations are like indecently dressed women. They tempt the evil-minded. Julius Nyerere