Quotes about evil
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 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 abuse foundation
Abuse of words is the foundation of ideology. Joseph Joubert
evil definitions perceive
Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value Konrad Lorenz
evil black cinema
I've always considered movies evil; the day that cinema was invented was a black day for mankind. Kenneth Anger
evil soul enchantment
Although, of course, my definition of evil is not everybody else's. Evil is being involved in the glamour and charm of material existence, glamour in its old Gaelic sense meaning enchantment with the look of things, rather than the soul of things.
evil world doe
Why does God allow evil in the world? To thicken the plot. Ramakrishna
evil ego subjects
There must be a subject to know the good and evil. Thatsubject is the ego. Ramana Maharshi
evil distillation meant-to-be
You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything. Ralph Fiennes
evil reform improvement
It is handsomer to remain in the establishment better than the establishment, and conduct that in the best manner, than to make asally against evil by some single improvement, without supporting it by a total regeneration. Ralph Waldo Emerson
evil cold beats
Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of beat.
evil overcoming greater-good
We can overcome evil with greater good. Laura Bush
evil towns palaces
Prostitution in the towns is like the cesspool in the palace: take away the cesspool and the palace will become an unclean and evil-smelling place. Thomas Aquinas
evil use action
One cannot use an evil action with reference to a good intention.
evil substance body
We ought to cherish the body. Our body's substance is not from an evil principle, as the Manicheans imagine, but from God. And therefore, we ought to cherish the body by the friendship of love, by which we love God.
evil catholic purity-and-love
In the realm of evil thoughts none induces to sin as much as do thoughts that concern the pleasure of the flesh.
evil violence forbidden
It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil. Tertullian
evil grace ugly
They may have been ugly. They may have been evil. But when it came to poetry in motion, the Things had all the grace and coordination of a deck-chair. Terry Pratchett
evil reason rhyme
Evil is often supposed to be without rhyme or reason. Terry Eagleton
evil giants train
Evil is unintelligible. It is just a thing in itself, like boarding a crowded commuter train wearing only a giant boa constrictor. There is no context which would make it explicable.
evil laid-back deny
It is true that some liberals and humanists, along with the laid-back Danes, deny the existence of evil. This is largely because they regard the word 'evil' as a device for demonising those who are really nothing more than socially unfortunate.
evil ordinary chickens
But this was no ordinary chicken. This chicken was evil manifest. Terry Goodkind
evil destroyed
Evil contained is not evil destroyed. Terry Brooks
evil heaven demand
In Heaven all reviews will be favorable; here on earth, the publisher realizes, plausibility demands an occasional bad one, some convincing lump in all that leaven, and he accepts it somewhat as a theologian accepts Evil. Randall Jarrell
evil shadow literature
Nature and literature are subjective phenomena; every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast
evil benefactors
Every evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor.
evil vengeance wave
The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.