Quotes about evil
evil acquiescence asks
All that the Devil asks is acquiescence ... Suzanne Massie
evil needs blame
Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims. Susan Sontag
evil results easier
Preventives of evil are far better than remedies; cheaper and easier of application, and surer in result. Tryon Edwards
evil genius doe
Genius does not excuse evil. Rick Riordan
evil humanity behavior
Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity. Reinhold Niebuhr
evil-people done good-people
Ultimately evil is done not so much by evil people, but by good people who do not know themselves and who do not probe deeply.
evil
The Bible says that evil cannot be negotiated with. It has to just be stopped. Rick Warren
evil evil-thoughts goats
I whistled. "You have evil thoughts for a goat.
evil divergent excuse
Human reason can excuse any evil. Veronica Roth
evil important divergent
Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it's so important that we don't rely on it.
evil mask meekness
Meekness is the mask of malice. Robert Green Ingersoll
evil trouble infinite
I have had some trouble in regarding evil as having been intended by infinite Goodness.
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 venom malice
Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom. St. Jerome
evil mind world
The world's oldest wisdom: each evil thought infuses the mind, sooner or later, with an unholy fear. Sri Chinmoy
evil sometimes appearance
In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments. Rutherford B. Hayes
evil paradise vehicle
I had a definite sense of somehow being a passenger in an evil vehicle crusing through Paradise. Sam Shepard
evil abortion might
Is it logical to ask how far away are we from the pope explaining that abortion can be justified, "in certain circumstances, in certain regions," and if it might be related to the evils of American capitalism and our immigration policy? Rush Limbaugh
evil politics imagine
Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good. W. H. Auden
evil mad culture
Accurate scholarship can unearth the whole offence from luther untill noe that has driven a culture mad. From what occured at linz what huge imago made a psychopathic god. i and the public know what all schoolchildren learn those to whom evil is done do evil in return.
evil tables criminal-mind
Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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 has-beens
For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. Yann Martel