Quotes about evil
evil bears fortitude
CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another. Ambrose Bierce
evil death-of-a-friend enemy
CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another. When Zeno was told that one of his enemies was no more he was observed to be deeply moved. "What!" said one of his disciples, "you weep at the death of an enemy?" "Ah, 'tis true," replied the great Stoic; "but you should see me smile at the death of a friend.".
evil inquiry spirit
To Dogmatism the Spirit of Inquiry is the same as the Spirit of Evil.
evil shadow folly
Wisdom is known only by contrasting it with folly; by shadow only we perceive that all visible objects are not flat. Yet Philanthropos would abolish evil!
evil enemy social
Introduction - a social ceremony invented by the devil for the gratification of his servants and the plaguing of his enemies.
evil bereavement shows
Condole - to show that bereavement is a smaller evil than sympathy.
evil political wish
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
evil forgiving done
Helped are those who forgive; their reward shall be forgetfulness of every evil done to them. It will be in their power, therefore, to envision the new Earth. -----“The Gospel According to Shug Alice Walker
evil who-we-are language
Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.
evil television world
My activism really is for myself, because I see places in the world where I feel I should be. If there is something really bad, really evil, happening somewhere, then that is where I should be. I need, for myself, to feel that I have stood there. It feels a lot better than just watching it on television.
evil ugly worst
It's very much related to the American tycoon. To William Randolph Hearst, Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, that whole stratum of American acquisitive evil. Monopolistic, acquisitive evil. Ugly evil. The ugly American. The ugly American at his ugly worst. That's exactly what it is. Allen Ginsberg
evil spirit
That's what the shaman said. He didn't know what he was up against. He didn't expect the strength and weight and evil intensity of this spirit, this "entity," as he called it. The same way the priest in an exorcism has to take on the spirit.
evil community authority
An evil nature wielding great authority brings misfortune upon the community. Aeschines
evil hateful virtue
The safeguards of virtue are hateful to the evil disposed. Aesop
evil
Don't be in a hurry to change one evil for another.
evil ignorant knowledgeable
I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils. Aeschylus
evil evil-thoughts best-gift
To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.
evil
Evil to some is always good to others Jane Austen
evil mind injustice
We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reason that psychologists study the minds of murderers and rapists... to understand how those evil things came about. Jared Diamond
evil age trouble
The trouble with New Age music is that there's no evil in it. Brian Eno
evil
Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do? Bret Easton Ellis
evil politics
There they are. See no evil, hear no evil, and...evil. Bob Dole
evil mud void
When blackness was a virtue and the road was full of mud, I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form. Bob Dylan
evil world united-states
The United States is evil. It has to be brought down, it has to be eliminated from the world scene. They are the ones who have made the world the hell that it is. Bobby Fischer
evil doing-good dies
It's better to die doing good than to live doing evil. Brigham Young
evil hats consciousness
Ist es an und fu? r sich absurd, das Nichtsein fu? r einUbel zu ? halten; da jedes Ubel wie jedes Gut das Dasein zur Voraussetzung hat, ja sogar das Bewusstsein. It is in and by itself absurd to regard non-existence as an evil; for every evil, like every good, presupposes existence, indeed even consciousness. Arthur Schopenhauer
evil may deeds
For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne. Edmund Spenser
evil anticipation
Nothing is so rash as fear; its counsels very rarely put off, whilst they are always sure to aggravate the evils from which it would fly. Edmund Burke
evil enemy good-and-evil
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
evil half vices
Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
evil calling reformation
Evils we have had continually calling for reformation, and reformations more grievous than any evils.
evil nurse grace
The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise isgone! it isgone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
evil understanding may
You may never understand How the stranger is inspired For he is not always evil, And he is not always wrong. Billy Joel