Quotes about evil
evil reason no-reason
Evil requires no reason. Alberto Manguel
evil
Good is that which promotes life, evil is that which destroys life Albert Schweitzer
evil good men needed prosper
The only thing needed for evil to prosper is for good men to do nothing. Edmund Burke
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 old-testament depiction
The God of the Old Testament is the depiction of evil. Joni Mitchell
evil obligation
It is as much our obligation not to cooperate with evil as it is to cooperate with good Mahatma Gandhi
evil parent world
We are saved from nothing if we are not saved from sin. Little sins are pioneers of hell. The backslider begins with what he foolishly considers trifling with little sins. There are no little sins. There was a time when all the evil that has existed in the world was comprehended in one sinful thought of our first parent; and all the now evil is the numerous and horrid progeny of one little sin.
evil minorities literature
What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil. Norman Mailer
evil continuing subjects
Necessity is an evil; but there is no necessity for continuing to live subject to necessity. Epicurus
evil looks mouths
Oh, you know, driving around, coming to a stop sign and an entire family, from 8 to 80, will be looking at me with that Dr. Evil look - pinkie on the mouth. Mike Myers
evil evil-thoughts ruins
Evil thoughts and evil doing, cold, alone, you hang in ruins. Ozzy Osbourne
evil christianity harmony
Our proportionate admission of the claims of good or of evil determines the harmony of our existence, - our health, our longevity, and our Christianity. Mary Baker Eddy
evil overcoming
To overcome evil with good is good, to resist evil with evil is evil. Nazr Mohammed
evil lines able
When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom. Natan Sharansky
evil priorities matter
The existence of poverty in the US should not be accepted as a necessary evil or insoluble problem, but should be considered a crisis requiring emergency measures. It is a matter of will and priorities, not a matter of resources. Martin Luther King, Jr.
evil ability extremes
Extreme good, extreme evil: the abilities required are similar. Margaret Atwood
evil temptation erring
Moralists and philosophers have adjudged those who throw temptation in the way of the erring, equally guilty with those who are thereby led into evil Mark Twain
evil equal good-evil
All evils are equal when they are extreme. Pierre Corneille
evil equal extremes
All evils are equal when they are extreme. [Fr., Et tous maux sont pareils alors qu'ils sont extremes.]
evil borders good-and-evil
The border between good and evil passes not outside of us but within us Pope Francis
evil goodness contagion
If evil is contagious, so is good:therefore, we must allow good to abound in us, more and more;let us be infected by goodness, and let us spread the good contagion.
evil doe praying
Whoever does not pray to God, prays to the devil.
evil firsts defeat
Be the first to seek to bring good, do not grow accustomed to evil, but defeat it.
evil stronger goodness
God’s goodness is stronger than any evil!
evil bleeding armenians
Concealing or denying evil is like allowing a wound to keep bleeding without bandaging it,