Quotes about evil
evil lazy would-be
The aphorism "Whatever is, is right," would be as final as it is lazy, did it not include the troublesome consequence that nothing that ever was, was wrong. Charles Dickens
evil statesmen statesmanship
It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil. Charles Caleb Colton
evil choices goods
Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods.
evil decision choices
Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
evil growth rapids
No propagation or multiplication is more rapid that that of evil, unless it be checked; no growth more certain.
evil giving decision
Accustom yourself to submit on all and every occasion, and on the most minute, no less than on the most important circumstances of life, to a small present evil, to obtain a greater distant good. This will give decision, tone, and energy to the mind, which, thus disciplined, will often reap victory from defeat and honor from repulse.
evil unhappy ends
Good never come of such evil, a happier end was not in nature to so unhappy a beginning.
evil hatred debt
It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse.
evil wells decided
It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'. Charles Simmons
evil confusion people
We're living in a fearful time. Since 9/11 people have become more afraid than before, because of terrorism. There's a lot of confusion about evil, where it's all coming from. Charles Stanley
evil would-be action
If we do wrong and no harm comes of it, we are not thereby justified. If we did evil and good came of it, the evil would be just as evil. It is not the result of the action, but the action itself which God weighs. Charles Spurgeon
evil imagination worst
The worst evils of life are those which do not exist except in our imagination.
evil good-and-evil incompetence
Evil is a form of incompetence. Alan Bullock
evil use may
The main thing is this: we should never blame anyone or anything for our defeats. No matter how evil their intentions may be, they are altogether unable to harm us until we begin to blame them and use them as excuses for our own unbelief. Aiden Wilson Tozer
evil choices taxation
Taxation under every form presents but a choice of evils. David Ricardo
evil religion doe
If God is omnipotent, omniscient and wholly good, whence evil? If God wills to prevent evil but cannot, then He is not omnipotent. If He can prevent evil but does not, then he is not good. In either case he is not God. David Hume
evil design temptation
God designs that those whom He sanctifies...shall tarry awhile in this present evil world, that their own experience of temptations may teach them how great the deliverance is, which God has wrought for them. David Brainerd
evil accepting
Those who won't accept evil never get anything good. August Strindberg
evil liberty libertarian
The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder. Frederic Bastiat
evil gone trouble
No evil lost is wailed when it is gone. William Shakespeare
evil human-nature inherent
There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil. Benjamin Haydon
evil criticism necessary-evil
A critic is a necessary evil, and criticism is an evil necessity. Carolyn Wells
evil intellectual rehabilitation
Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a rehabilitation of the work of the fields. Charles Wagner
evil may lessons
I confess I have yet to learn that a lesson of the purest good may not be drawn from the vilest evil.
evil people extravagant
The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it. Chester A. Arthur
evil doorways conditions
Not woman, but the condition of woman, has always been a doorway of evil. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
evil political causes
Evil person causes harm even if treated will. Chanakya
evil vision wicked
Angelic Sookie, vision of love and beauty, I am prostrate that the wicked evil maenad violated your smooth and voluptuous body, in an attempt to deliver a message to me. -Eric Charlaine Harris
evil joy making-love
What I say is that the supreme and singular joy of making love resides in the certainty of doing evil. Charles Baudelaire
evil literature born
We are all born marked for evil.
evil would-be behavior
Well in the history of the See's Candy Company they always say, "I never did it before, and I'm never going to do it again." And we cashier them. It would be evil not to, because terrible behavior spreads. Charlie Munger
evil shelter clients
You'll better understand the evil when top audit firms started selling fraudulent tax shelters when I tell you that one told me that they're better [than the others] because they only sold [the schemes] to their top-20 clients, so no-one would notice.
evil derivatives horror
I turn away with fright and horror from the lamentable evil of functions which do not have derivatives. Charles Hermite