Quotes about evil
evil important divergent
Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it's so important that we don't rely on it. Veronica Roth
evil mask meekness
Meekness is the mask of malice. Robert Green Ingersoll
evil trouble infinite
I have had some trouble in regarding evil as having been intended by infinite Goodness. Robert Green Ingersoll
evil justice tests
To scatter praise or blame without regard to justice is to destroy the distinction of good and evil. Many have no other test of actions than general opinion; and all are so far influenced by a sense of reputation that they are often restrained by fear of reproach, and excited by hope of honour, when other principles have lost their power. Samuel Johnson
evil stealing consistent
Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent. Samuel Johnson
evil vices mystery
Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off. Samuel Johnson
evil mind empty
Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them. Samuel Johnson
evil may influence
Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can; and conquered they must be, or neither wisdom nor happiness can be attained: but those who are not yet subject to their influence may, by timely caution, preserve their freedom; Samuel Johnson
evil poverty wealth
All this [wealth] excludes but one evil, poverty. Samuel Johnson
evil long wickedness
Combinations of wickedness would overwhelm the world, by the advantage which licentious principles afford, did not those who have long practised perfidy grow faithless to each other. Samuel Johnson
evil poverty argument
All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil. Samuel Johnson
evil desire patriot
It is unpleasing to represent our affairs to our own disadvantage; yet it is necessary to shew the evils which we desire to be removed. Samuel Johnson
evil training film
Roy Keane is Damien, the devil incarnate off the film The Omen. He's evil. Even in training. Ryan Giggs
evil body may
You may bury my body down by the highway side. So my old evil spirit can catch a Greyhound bus and ride. Robert Johnson
evil world made
Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world. Robert Hughes
evil optimism opinion
I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism Roberto Rossellini
evil necessary-evil
As sure as God is good, so surely there is no such thing as necessary evil. Robert Southey
evil grows concealment
Evil is nourished and grows by concealment. Virgil
evil killers responsible
Adolf Hitler was a vile, heinous, vicious killer responsible for one of the greatest acts of evil committed on this planet. Will Smith
evil mind trying
Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil. Vincent Van Gogh
evil imperfection judgment
To sit in judgment of those things which you perceive to be wrong or imperfect is to be one more person who is part of judgment, evil or imperfection. Wayne Dyer
evil selfishness persecution
There can be no Good Will. Will is always Evil; it is persecution to others or selfishness. William Blake
evil-love evil paradise
wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good. Wallace Stegner
evil looks may
What we look upon as our greatest unhappiness in a difficulty we are involved in, may possibly be the evil hastening to its crisis, and happy days may ensue. Samuel Richardson
evil use done
Centres, or centre-pieces of wood, are put by builders under an arch of stone while it is in the process of construction till the keystone is put in. Just such is the use Satan makes of pleasures to construct evil habits upon; the pleasure lasts till the habit is fully formed; but that done the habit may stand eternal. The pleasures are sent for firewood, and the hell begins in this life. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
evil looks triumph
Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme. Salman Khan
evil victory study
One of the things I know from the study of history is that history surprises you. History is not written. It's not inevitable.The victory of evil is not certain. Salman Rushdie
evil fundamentals our-time
Fundamentalists of all faiths are the fundamental evil of our time. Salman Rushdie
evil stronger world
It is because good is always stronger than evil. Always remember that, Antonio. The smallest bit of good can stand against all the powers of evil in the world and it will emerge triumphant. Rudolfo Anaya
evil selfishness common
The common trait of all evil is nothing other than egoism... Basically all human evil comes from what we call the selfishness. Rudolf Steiner
evil people black
Do not be naive. AIDS is not a curse from God to Africans or the black people. It is a tool to control them designed by some evil-minded scientists, but we may not know who particularly did it. Wangari Maathai
evil politics imagine
Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good. W. H. Auden
evil mad culture
Accurate scholarship can unearth the whole offence from luther untill noe that has driven a culture mad. From what occured at linz what huge imago made a psychopathic god. i and the public know what all schoolchildren learn those to whom evil is done do evil in return. W. H. Auden