Quotes about evil
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. Saint Augustine
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 effort poverty
It would be hard to find a single instance of a direct assault by positive effort upon poverty, vice, and misery which has not either failed or, if it has not failed directly and entirely, has not entailed other evils greater than the one which it removed. William Graham Sumner
evil operations term
Everything understood by the term co-operation is in some sense an evil. William Godwin
evil good-and-evil
Power is not happiness.
evil progress ships
Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it obstructed its fair, comfortable progress in the path of life. William Banting
evil lazy delay
It is my greatest misfortune to be too lazy, and by the few mortifications I have already set with on that account I predict many evils in my future life. I have always the inclination to do what I ought; but by continually procrastinating for tomorrow the business of today, I insensibly delay, until at the end of one month I find myself in the same place as when I began it. Washington Allston
evil trying schedules
I'm very well acquainted with the seven deadly sins, I keep a busy schedule trying to fit them in. Warren Zevon
evil people world
Some people turn from God because they cannot understand how a good God can permit evil in the world. Walter Lang
evil desire harness
We know that it is possible to harness desire to many interests, that evil is one form of a desire, and not the nature of it. Walter Lippmann
evil world stride
Let us confess it: evil strides the world. Voltaire
evil littles obtaining
A little evil is often necessary for obtaining a great good.
evil infidelity adultery
Adultery is an evil only inasmuch as it is a theft; but we do not steal that which is given to us.
evil too-late midst
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils. Walter Scott
evil doe praise
For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears.
evil done fruit
When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that. William Kingdon Clifford
evil
The Bible says that evil cannot be negotiated with. It has to just be stopped. Rick Warren
evil evil-thoughts goats
I whistled. "You have evil thoughts for a goat. Rick Riordan
evil divergent excuse
Human reason can excuse any evil. Veronica Roth
evil important divergent
Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it's so important that we don't rely on it.
evil mask meekness
Meekness is the mask of malice. Robert Green Ingersoll
evil trouble infinite
I have had some trouble in regarding evil as having been intended by infinite Goodness.
evil justice tests
To scatter praise or blame without regard to justice is to destroy the distinction of good and evil. Many have no other test of actions than general opinion; and all are so far influenced by a sense of reputation that they are often restrained by fear of reproach, and excited by hope of honour, when other principles have lost their power. Samuel Johnson
evil stealing consistent
Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.
evil vices mystery
Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.
evil mind empty
Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.
evil may influence
Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can; and conquered they must be, or neither wisdom nor happiness can be attained: but those who are not yet subject to their influence may, by timely caution, preserve their freedom;