Quotes about evil
evil impulse moral teach wood
One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can. William Wordsworth
evil form hot piece
No one should form an acquaintance with one who has an evil character. A piece of coal, if it is hot burns, and if it's cold, blackens the hands.
evil silence faces
Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
evil giving romance
You need not attempt to shake off or to banter off Romance. It is an evil you will never get rid of to the end of your days. It is a part of yourself ... of your soul. Age will only mellow it a little, and give it a holier tone. Edgar Allan Poe
evil effort purpose
practically nothing we do ever stands by itself. If it is good, it will serve some good purpose in the future. If it is evil, it may haunt us and handicap our efforts in unimagined ways. Eleanor Roosevelt
evil easy
How can I be so evil? It ain't easy. Edward Abbey
evil long trying
Judicial execution can never cancel or remove the atrocity it seeks to punish; it can only add a second atrocity to the original one ... So long as one sees killing as wrong there is no need to waste time with the deterrent argument, since it would be nonsense to try to prevent a theoretical evil in the future by perpetrating an actual one in the present. Auberon Waugh
evil trying use
I do have magical powers, I try to use them for good and not evil, but I can pretty much make anyone do whatever I want them to do, if they're within range. Aubrey Plaza
evil people second-best
We must as second best, as people say, take the least of the evils. Aristotle
evil chosen greater
For the lesser evil is reckoned a good in comparison with the greater evil, since the lesser evil is rather to be chosen than the greater. .
evil suspects knows
They that know no evil will suspect none. Ben Jonson
evil abortion cry
There must be a remedy even for such a crying evil as this [abortion]. But where shall it be found, at least where begin, if not in the complete enfranchisement and elevation of women? Elizabeth Cady Stanton
evil abortion four
Dr. Oaks made the remark that, according to the best estimate he could make, there were four hundred murders annually produced by abortion in that county alone....There must be a remedy for such a crying evil as this.
evil foreign government heard knew minister mode prime reckless saw sorry spoke three trade wise
The prime minister, the foreign minister and the trade minister were the three wise monkeys: they saw no evil, they spoke no evil, they heard no evil but they knew all about it. It's a sorry story of a government in a mode of reckless negligence.
evil amen
...and deliver me from evil." "Amen. Dave Pelzer
evil people wall watching
Sir, the world is watching Wall Street. Show these evil people what you're made of. Buy, buy, buy.
evil finds man mistrust
Mistrust the man who finds everything good; the man who finds everything evil; and still more the man who is indifferent to everything
evil held higher
When you put something out there like 'Don't Be Evil,' you get held to a higher standard,
evil sin good-work
Our best performances are so stained with sin, that it is hard to know whether they are good works or bad works. Charles Spurgeon
evil world would-be
If He had not known with certainty that He would be Master over sin and that out of evil would evolve the noblest display of His own glory, He would not have permitted it to enter the world.
evil my-best-friend christ
If Christ has died for me, I cannot trifle with the evil that killed my best Friend.
evil my-best-friend sake
If Christ has died for me - ungodly as I am, without strength as I am - then I can no longer live in sin, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me. I cannot trifle with the evil that killed my best Friend. I must be holy for his sake. How can I live in sin when He has died to save me from it?
evil choices slides
You and I are, by birth, by nature, and by choice, inwardly depraved, which is to say that we are entirely corrupt. That's not to say that we have no good in us; we do. However, anything good in us has been tainted with evil. It touches everything. Without the redeeming power of Christ we cannot halt our own moral slide. Charles R. Swindoll
evil world conservative
Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich and poor. Dennis Prager
evil triumph united-states
If the United States doesn't lead then evil triumphs
evil people doe
Nothing enables people to do evil as much as does a sense of victimhood
evil allies tough
This is the belief of the Left: You negotiate with evil, and get tough with your allies
evil groups belief
Most evil comes from the belief that one is a victim, or one's group is a victim
evil tolerance ends
If we continue to teach about tolerance and intolerance instead of good and evil, we will end up with tolerance of evil.
evil resent
Those who do not confront evil resent those who do.
evil encounters masters
Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high. Denis Diderot
evil genius world
Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
evil people half
The usual cause of evil in the world is that at any given time half the people in the world are awake. Dean Rusk