Quotes about evil
evil people soul
There are people whose souls have just withered, people who are willing to go along with anything evil - anything so as not to be suspected of disagreeing with whoever is in power. Vasily Grossman
evil soul ged
It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul. Ursula K. Le Guin
evil balance needs
But you must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. The world is in balance, in Equilibrium. A wizard's power of Changing and Summoning can shake the balance of the world. It is dangerous, that power...It must follow knowledge, and serve need.
evil littles innocence
In innocence there is no strength against evil, said Sparrowhawk, a little wryly. But there is strength in it for good.
evil effort poverty
It would be hard to find a single instance of a direct assault by positive effort upon poverty, vice, and misery which has not either failed or, if it has not failed directly and entirely, has not entailed other evils greater than the one which it removed. William Graham Sumner
evil operations term
Everything understood by the term co-operation is in some sense an evil. William Godwin
evil good-and-evil
Power is not happiness.
evil progress ships
Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it obstructed its fair, comfortable progress in the path of life. William Banting
evil lazy delay
It is my greatest misfortune to be too lazy, and by the few mortifications I have already set with on that account I predict many evils in my future life. I have always the inclination to do what I ought; but by continually procrastinating for tomorrow the business of today, I insensibly delay, until at the end of one month I find myself in the same place as when I began it. Washington Allston
evil trying schedules
I'm very well acquainted with the seven deadly sins, I keep a busy schedule trying to fit them in. Warren Zevon
evil impossible framed
The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible. Thomas Hardy
evil purpose sake
Thus, then, stands the case. It is good, that authors should be remunerated; and the least exceptionable way of remunerating them is by a monopoly. Yet monopoly is an evil. For the sake of the good we must submit to the evil; but the evil ought not to last a day longer than is necessary for the purpose of securing the good. Thomas B. Macaulay
evil produce cures
There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.
evil news faster
Evil news fly faster still than good. Thomas Kyd
evil people protect
Let our countrymen know that the people alone can protect us against these evils of misgovernment. Thomas Jefferson
evil way affair
It is a happy circumstance in human affairs that evils which are not cured in one way will cure themselves in some other.
evil trying prohibition
We have seen the evil of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in our midst; let us try prohibition and see what this will do for us Thomas Jordan Jarvis
evil moral constitution
By the very constitution of our nature moral evil is its own curse. Thomas Chalmers
evil moral curse
... moral evil is its own curse.
evil anxiety over-confidence
Over-confidence is as evil as undue anxiety. Thomas Chandler Haliburton
evil affliction sin
There is more evil in the least sin than in the greatest affliction. Thomas Brooks
evil accepting luther
As Martin Luther King said, "Passively to participate in an unjust system is to accept that system and to participate in its evil." Viggo Mortensen
evil soul elements
Is there not in every human soul a primitive spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world and immortal in the next, which can be developed by goodness, kindled, lit up, and made to radiate, and which evil can never entirely extinguish. Victor Hugo
evil care choose-wisely
Either God can do nothing to stop catastrophes like this, or he doesn't care to, or he doesn't exist. God is either impotent, evil, or imaginary. Take your pick, and choose wisely. Sam Harris
evil soul suffering
Souls are punished when they have gone forth from the body, some wandering among us, some going to hot or cold places of the earth, some harassed by spirits. Under all circumstances they suffer with the irrational part of their nature, with which they also sinned. For its sake there subsists that shadowy body which is seen about graves, especially the graves of evil livers. Sallust
evil gossip people
Be thou good thyself, and let people speak evil of thee; it is better than to be wicked, and that they should consider thee as good. Saadi
evil perfect insightful
It must be hard being you,” she said. “Mr. Perfect on the outside. Dr. Evil on the inside.” “It’s not that hard. The rest of the world isn’t as insightful as you. Susan Elizabeth Phillips
evil banality subjects
Cannot Hannah Arendt's 'banality of evil' be subject to transposition: the evil of banality? Studs Terkel
evil crap load
Don't be evil is a load of crap. Steve Jobs
evil lessons way
Evil cannot be overcome by more evil. Evil can only be overcome by good. It is the lesson of the way of love. Peace Pilgrim
evil hatred messages
Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love. The message isn't new, but we haven't learned to live it yet.
evil ego twins
You have an evil twin who is always with you. He is called your ego. Peter Kreeft
evil answers paper
The best answer to the problem of evil is not one so much found on paper but on wood.