Quotes about evil
evil empires terrorism
The evil of predatory global capitalism and empire has spawned the evil of terrorism Chris Hedges
evil giving too-much
Eating too much meat gives you indigestion and evil thoughts make you eat too much meat. Gertrude Stein
evil goal mind
The tragic evils of our life are so commonly unintentional. We did not start out for that poor, cheap goal. That aim was not in our minds at all....Look to the road you are walking on. He who picks up one end of [a] stick picks up the other.He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. Harry Emerson Fosdick
evil unjust speak
Speak not evil of the absent for it is unjust. George Washington
evil liberty special
Americans have always held firm, because we have always believed in certain truths. We know that if evil is not confronted, it gains in strength and audacity and returns to strike us again. We know that when the work is hard, the proper response is not retreat, it is courage. And we know that a great ideal of human freedom entrusted to us in a special way and that the ideal of liberty is worth defending. George W. Bush
evil politician illness
It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil,... that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure. George McGovern
evil politics easier
Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him. Fyodor Dostoevsky
evil want claws
Of all evil I deem you capable: Therefore I want good from you. Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws. Friedrich Nietzsche
evil shameless poet
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
evil good-and-evil illusion
There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.
evil abuse balance
Nothing is of its nature evil, and nothing is of its nature good. Evil is only excess, good is simply balance. All things are subject to abuse, all things are susceptible to beneficial use. And balance does not consist in denial, or excess of indulgence. John Parsons
evil world needs
If I could, Sister James, I would certainly choose to live in innocence. But innocence can only be wisdom in a world without evil. Situations arise and we are confronted with wrongdoing and the need to act. John Patrick Shanley
evil temptation gains
Temptation gains power by persistent solicitations that beget thoughts that make evil less serious John Owen
evil threatening holy
It is one thing to fear God as threatening, with a holy reverence, and another to be afraid of the evil threatened.
evil news bait
For evil news rides post, while good news baits. John Milton
evil
Evil, be thou my good.
evil promise followers
That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure; her whiteness is but an excremental whiteness.
evil recoil
Evil on itself shall back recoil.
evil force ideals
The evil was not in either ideal; the evil was in the attempt to impose that ideal by force upon others. Norman Angell
evil use
Use your powers for good instead of evil Nnedi Okorafor
evil giving goal
To some people the ego is evil. It gives you so much. It gives you everything you want. But it takes back too much in return. It gives you everything: money, riches, women, glamour, everything you want. But in return it takes back so much, and you're soulless. That's its goal. The ego's goal is to leave you soulless. Mike Tyson
evil
Where there's music there can be no evil. Miguel de Cervantes
evil goodness
Seek for good, but expect evil.
evil ifs
Evil comes not amiss if it comes alone.
evil slavery captivity
Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.
evil tyranny-founding-fathers useless
When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil. Thomas Jefferson
evil defeat conquer
The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat. Edith Hamilton
evil politics opponents
Liberals and conservatives are opponents in the most literal sense, each using the myth of pure evil to demonize the other side and unite there own. Jonathan Haidt
evil would-be made
If power made one evil, then God would be the Devil. Jonah Goldberg
evil victim attractive
And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to make of us not simply victims, as nature and accident do, but active accomplices. Joyce Carol Oates
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.