Quotes about evil
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.
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.
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
evil world deeds
It is forbidden to be merciful to them. You must send missiles to them and annihilate them. They are evil and damnable. [...] The Lord shall return the Arabs' deeds on their own heads, waste their seed and exterminate them, devastate them and vanish them from this world. Ovadia Yosef
evil faces
Evil doesn't always have one face, Ethan. Kami Garcia
evil
Power is neither good nor evil.
evil opposition
Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies. Joyce Meyer
evil wicked reborn
If you are a good economist, a virtuous economist, you are reborn as a physicist. But if you are an evil, wicked economist, you are reborn as a sociologist. Paul Krugman
evil progress fables
The evil arising from mental improvement can be corrected only by a still further progress in that very improvement. Either morality is a fable, or the more enlightened we are, the more attached to it we become. Madame de Stael
evil liberty grows
Where liberty dies, evil grows. Hamid Karzai
evil weapons needed
I have always felt as though I needed a weapon against evil. Gordon Parks
evil allowing
I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand.
evil nine excuse
Nine times out of ten it is the coarse word that condemns an evil, and the refined word that excuses it. Gilbert K. Chesterton
evil common nonsense
To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil. John Dryden
evil may valiant
I am devilishly afraid, that's certain; but ... I'll sing, that I may seem valiant.
evil roles world
But when we place God on our side of things, that we are now ridding the world of evil - that's very dangerous, that one nation has this role to rid the world of evil. What about the evil we have committed, that we are complicit in? Jim Wallis
evil phenomenon humans
If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing. John Brunner
evil broken shadow
I define a good person as somebody who is fully conscious of their own limitations. They know their strengths, but they also know their shadow - they know their weaknesses. In other words, they understand that there is no good without bad. Good and evil are really one, but we have broken them up in our consciousness. We polarize them. John Bradshaw
evil suffering good-and-evil
Good and evil exist only in terms of the happiness or suffering they create in ourselves and others Matthieu Ricard
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 sound horror
The same sensations that you get in heavy metal are in horror movies. Heavy metal sounds evil and horror movies are evil, ha ha! Kirk Hammett
evil historical development
So in Jewry we recognise a contemporary universal anti-social phenomenon, which has reached its present pitch through a process of, historical development in which the Jews have zealously co-operated. And this evil anti-social aspect of Jewry has grown to a stage at which: it must necessarily collapse. Karl Marx
evil age may
Whatever else we may say of our own age, for good or evil, nobody is likely to call it an Age of Reason.
evil intelligence support
See No Evil. We had support in the intelligence sectors. Stephen Gaghan