Quotes about evil
evil able possibility
Freedom's possibility is not the ability to choose the good or the evil. The possibility is to be able. Soren Kierkegaard
evil way found
...in the ways of Nature there is no evil to be found. Marcus Aurelius
evil substance causes
The substance of the universe is obedient and compliant; and the reason which governs it has in itself no cause for doing evil, for it has no malice, nor does it do evil to anything, nor is anything harmed by it. But all things are made and perfected according to this reason.
evil
Nothing is evil which is according to nature.
evil doe injustice
Whoever does wrong, wrongs himself; whoever does injustice, does it to himself, making himself evil.
evil laziness overcoming
So fixed are our spirits in slothfulness and cold indifference that we seldom overcome so much as one evil habit. Thomas a Kempis
evil benefits world
God himself would not permit evil in this world if good did not come of it for the benefit and harmony of the universe. Thomas Aquinas
evil may opinion
It is my opinion that human history can make no sense unless evil doings are recognized for what they are, and that they are bearable only if somehow they may be redeemed. Simon Conway Morris
evil challenges cain
I challenge anyone to tell me that there isn’t evil in this world. From the days of Cain and Abel we know all too well there will always be evil. But that evil shouldn’t take away our freedoms. In fact, the only way to defeat evil is by taking advantage of our freedoms. Taya Kyle
evil world mixtures
This World will always continue to be a mixture of Good and Evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to Love even the wrongdoer. Swami Vivekananda
evil way bed
You're like the devil with horns in your head, the only way I'll get you is to get you in bed. Ringo Starr
evil speak feels
If there is any person to whom you feel a dislike, that is the person of whom you ought never to speak.
evil good-evil unbelief
Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse.
evil firsts survived
The presence of evil was something to be first recognized, then dealt with, survived, outwitted, triumphed over. Toni Morrison
evil noble deeds
The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed. Tacitus
evil quality lasts
We can never lose what is really ours. Who can lose his being? Who can lose his very existence? If I am good, it is the existence first, and then that becomes colored with the quality of goodness. If I am evil, it is the existence first, and that becomes colored with the quality of badness. That existence is first, last, and always; it is never lost but ever present.
evil endurance resistance
The disciple must have great power of endurance. Bear all evil and misery without one thought of unhappiness, resistance, remedy, or retaliation. That is true endurance, and that you must acquire.
evil credit blame
How absurd to take the credit of doing the good act on oneself and lay the blame for the evil act on the Lord!
evil world doers
The attempt to remove evil from the world by killing a thousand evil - doers, only adds to the evil in the world.
evil inexplicable
Don't stigmatize in a rush to explain inexplicable evil. Ron Fournier
evil people tears
Evil, in this system of ethics, is that which tears apart, shuts out the other person, raises barriers, sets people against each other. Rollo May
evil stories genocide
The story of U.S. policy during the genocide in Rwanda is not a story of willful complicity with evil. U.S. officials did not sit around and conspire to allow genocide to happen. Samantha Power
evil revolver standards
Anyone who maintains absolute standards of good and evil is dangerous. As dangerous as a maniac with a loaded revolver. Tom Robbins
evil mind trying
What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy.
evil belief existence
All evil begins with this belief: that another’s existence is less precious than mine. Tony Hendra
evil religion criticism
We must never forget that both good and evil flow from the Bible. It is therefore not above criticism. Steve Allen
evil responsible social
One social evil for which the New Testament is clearly in part responsible is anti-Semitism.
evil overcoming triumph
...love triumphs, at least in this life, not by eliminating evil once for all, but by resisting and overcoming it anew every day. Thomas Merton
evil may fallacy
There is no permanent place in this universe for evil... Evil may hide behind this fallacy and that, but it will be hunted from fallacy to fallacy until there is no more fallacy for it to hide behind. Thomas Carlyle
evil wicked alive
The dead are all holy, even they that were base and wicked while alive. Their baseness and wickedness was not they, was but the heavy and unmanageable environment that lay round them.
evil battle misery
Evil, once manfully fronted, ceases to be evil; there is generous battle-hope in place of dead, passive misery; the evil itself has become a kind of good.
evil goodness entanglement
How indestructibly the good grows, and propagates itself, even among the weedy entanglements of evil.
evil triumph deliverance
In the huge mass of evil as it rolls and swells, there is ever some good working toward deliverance and triumph.