Quotes about evil
evil process
The process of nature cannot be evil. Joseph Campbell
evil alive irony
You yourself are participating in the evil, or you are not alive. Whatever you do is evil for somebody. This is one of the ironies of the whole creation.
evil joy sorrow
All societies are evil, sorrowful, inequitable; and so they will always be. So if you really want to help this world, what you will have to teach is how to live in it. And that no one can do who has not himself learned how to live in it in the joyful sorrow and sorrowful joy of the knowledge of life as it is.
evil growth world
The destruction of the inducement to invest by an excessive liquidity-preference was the outstanding evil, the prime impediment to the growth of wealth, in the ancient and medieval worlds. John Maynard Keynes
evil long mind
The spectacle of modern investment markets has sometimes moved me towards the conclusion that to make the purchase of an investment permanent and indissoluble, like marriage, except by reason of death or other grave cause, might be a useful remedy for our contemporary evils. For this would force the investor to direct his mind to the long-term prospects and to those only.
evil heaven looks
I'm not a god or the God, but we're all God and we're all potentially divine — and potentially evil. We all have everything within us and the Kingdom of Heaven is nigh and within us, and if you look hard enough you'll see it. John Lennon
evil political religion
We're all God. I'm not a god or the God, but we're all God and we're all potentially divine-and potentially evil.
evil slaying annihilation
Annihilation itself is no death to evil. Only good where evil was, is evil dead. An evil thing must live with its evil until it chooses to be good. That alone is the slaying of evil. George MacDonald
evil
To be afraid is to have more faith in evil than in God. Emmet Fox
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.
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.
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.
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.
evil different
Different isn't evil, it's just different.
evil candy pleasant
Why was so much evil pleasant, pretty on the outside, like poisoned candy?
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.
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.