Famous Quotes & Sayings

Simone Weil

A society like the Church, which claims to be Divine is perhaps more dangerous on account of the ersatz good which it contains then on account of the evil which sullies it. Something of the social labelled divine: an intoxicating mixture which carries with it every sort of license. Devil disguised.

Simone Weil

There is a certain kind of morality which is even more alien to good and evil than amorality is.

Simone Weil

Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. For they are linked together; sin makes us suffer and suffering makes us evil, and this indissoluble complex of suffering and sin is the evil in which we are submerged against our will, and to our horror.

Simone Weil

The human soul has need of security and also of risk. The fear of violence or of hunger or of any other extreme evil is a sickness of the soul. The boredom produced by a complete absence of risk is also a sickness of the soul.

Simone Weil

When literature becomes deliberately indifferent to the opposition of good and evil it betrays its function and forfeits all claim to excellence.

Simone Weil

Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.

Simone Weil

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

Thomas Mann

Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.

Thomas Malthus

The greatest talents have been frequently misapplied and have produced evil proportionate to the extent of their powers. Both reason and revelation seem to assure us that such minds will be condemned to eternal death, but while on earth, these vicious instruments performed their part in the great mass of impressions, by the disgust and abhorrence which they excited.

Thomas Malthus

The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.

Thomas Malthus

Evil exists in the world not to create despair but activity.

Thomas Carlyle

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

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.

Thomas Carlyle

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.

Thomas Carlyle

How indestructibly the good grows, and propagates itself, even among the weedy entanglements of evil.

Thomas Carlyle

In the huge mass of evil as it rolls and swells, there is ever some good working toward deliverance and triumph.

Tony Campolo

I don't doubt that God can bring good out of tragedies, but the Bible is clear that God is not the author of evil!

Tony Campolo

When leading evangelicals say terrible things about Islam, evil things about Islam, terrible things about Muhammad, they ought to be ashamed of themselves.

Steven Biko

Apartheid — both petty and grand — is obviously evil. Nothing can justify the arrogant assumption that a clique of foreigners has the right to decide on the lives of a majority.

Steven Biko

Apartheid - both petty and grand - is obviously evil

Stephen Harper

Evil comes in many forms and seems to reinvent itself time and again. But whatever it calls itself - Nazism, Marxist-Leninism, today, terrorism - they all have one thing in common: the destruction, the end of human liberty.

Stephen King

The battle between good and evil is endlessly fascinating because we are participants every day.

Shirley MacLaine

Until mankind realizes that there is, in truth, no good, and there is, in truth, no evil-there will be no peace.

Sergey Brin

You can make money without doing evil.

Sergey Brin

It's not enough not to be evil. We also actively try to be good.

Rick Riordan

What was I up to, you may ask? I certainly didn't want to meet Monsieur Evil again or creepy old Lord Salamander.

Rem Koolhaas

Nigeria [in 1990] was all rumour, an unbelievable amount of rumour - largely about crime and almost mythical manifestations of evil.

Swami Vivekananda

The progress of the world through all its evils making it fit for the ideals, slowly but surely.

Swami Vivekananda

It is clear to us that, for good or for evil, our vitality is concentrated in our religion. You cannot change it. You cannot destroy it and put in its place another.

Swami Vivekananda

Change is always subjective. To talk of evil and misery is nonsense, because they do not exist outside. If I am immune from all anger, I never feel angry. If am immune from all hatred, I never feel hatred.

Ringo Starr

You're like the devil with horns in your head, the only way I'll get you is to get you in bed.

If there is any person to whom you feel a dislike, that is the person of whom you ought never to speak.

Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse.