Quotes about evil
evil able canvas
I see the canvas and I begin... It's a necessary evil to get into the work, and it's pretty marvelous to be able to get out of it. Willem de Kooning
evil focus communism
I see in Communism the focus of the concentrated evil of our time. Whittaker Chambers
evil safety appeasement
There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil. Ronald Reagan
evil presidential focus
The Soviet Union is the focus of evil in the modern world.
evil taught doctrine
Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil. Saint Basil
evil soul causes
Every evil is a sickness of soul, but virtue offers the cause of its health.
evil choices abuse
We have freedom to do good or evil; yet to make choice of evil, is not to use, but to abuse our freedom. Saint Francis de Sales
evil vices sometimes
One of the most evil dispositions possible is that which satirizes and turns everything to ridicule. God abhors this vice, and has sometimes punished it in a marked manner
evil worry anxiety
Anxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a soul, except sin. God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to worry.
evil lust god-love
Carnal lust rules where there is no love of God. Saint Augustine
evil way permit
God Almighty would in no way permit evil in His works were He not so omnipotent and good that even out of evil He could work good.
evil lazy taught
Disturbers are to be rebuked, the low spirited to be encouraged, the infirm to be supported, objectors confuted, the treacherous guarded against, the unskilled taught, the lazy aroused, the contentious restrained, the haughty repressed, the poor relieved, the oppressed liberated, the good approved, the evil borne with, and all are to be loved!
evil doubt doe
For, were it not good that evil things should also exist, the omnipotent God would almost certainly not allow evil to be, since beyond doubt it is just as easy for Him not to allow what He does not will, as for Him to do what He will.
evil coping difficulty
Ex Malo Bounum (good out of evil).
evil people looks
Well, some people say I'm pessimistic because I recognize the eternal cycle of evil. All I say is, look at the history of mankind right up to this moment and what do you find? Wole Soyinka
evil speech foolish
Free speech carries with it the evil of all foolish, unpleasant venomous things that are said but, on the whole, we would rather lump them than do away with them. Winston Churchill
evil temptation lobbyists
If we have Senators and Congressmen there that can't protect themselves against the evil temptations of lobbyists, we don't need to change our lobbies, we need to change our representatives. Will Rogers
evil world telling-the-truth
I am one who tells the truth and exposes evil and seeks with Beauty for Beauty to set the world right. W. E. B. Du Bois
evil littles submit
To great evils we submit; yet we resent little provocations. William Hazlitt
evil malice
Malice often takes the garb of truth.
evil imperfection shadow
Flatterers are the worst kind of traitors, for they will strengthen thy imperfections, encourage thee in all evils, correct thee in nothing, but so shadow and paint thy follies and vices as thou shalt never, by their will, discover good from evil, or vice from virtue. Walter Raleigh
evil has-beens
For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. Yann Martel
evil use want
Like anything else, you can use the Internet for good or ill. You can get out of it what you want to. There's no evil about it. The way I see it, it's a liberation. Willie Nelson
evil work-out crucible
Perhaps evil is the crucible of goodness... and perhaps even Satan - Satan, in spite of himself - somehow serves to work out the will of God. William Peter Blatty
evil world envious
That some are poorer than others, ever was and ever will be: And that many are naturally querulous and envious, is an Evil as old as the World. William Petty
evil essentials ability
The ability to choose is at the essential core of our grandeur. Even evil exists because God respects our ability to choose. William P. Young
evil may moral
To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals. William Penn
evil overcoming guilty
To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.
evil long mind
I have long gone about with a conviction on my mind that I had a work to do-a Work, if you like, with a great W; a Purpose to fulfil; ... a Great Social Evil to Discover and to Remedy. William Makepeace Thackeray
evil people pure-evil
There is no such thing as pure good or pure evil, least of all in people. Zedd