Quotes about evil
evil segregation ministers
My uncertainty disappeared. Segregation is evil, and I cannot, as a minister, condone evil. Martin Luther King, Jr.
evil defeat force
[Nonviolence] is directed against forces of evil rather than against persons who happen to be doing the evil. It is evil that the nonviolent resister seeks to defeat, not the persons victimized by evil.
evil accomplices
To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.
evil littles empires
The current health crisis, however, is a little more the work of the evil empire. We were told, we were assured, that the more meat and dairy and poultry we ate, the healthier we'd be Mark Bittman
evil morality human-nature
Human nature is so constituted that the propensity for evil is always intensified by external circumstances, and the morality of the individual depends much more on the conditions of his existence and the environment in which he lives than on his own will. Mikhail Bakunin
evil important unions
It seems that the most important thing about Reagan was his anti-Communism and his reputation as a hawk who saw the Soviet Union as an 'evil empire.' Mikhail Gorbachev
evil tolerance world
Tolerance is the last virtue of a depraved society. When an immoral society has blatantly and proudly violated all the commandments, it insists upon one last virtue, tolerance for its immorality. It will not tolerate condemnation of its perversions. It creates a whole new world in which only the intolerant critic of intolerable evil is evil. Hutton Gibson
evil support world
The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance and support life, and evil is an absence of the inclination of matter to be at peace. Gregory Maguire
evil world this-world
It isn’t hard to find evil in this world. Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow.
evil littles hermione
Hermione: You! You foul, loathsome, evil little cocroach! Ron: Hermione, no! He's no worth it. J. K. Rowling
evil democracy doctrine
The doctrine that the cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy is like saying that the cure of crime is more crime. H. L. Mencken
evil murderer
Word to God, we murderers. Ja Rule
evil mind world
From the respect paid to property flow, as from a poisoned fountain, most of the evils and vices which render this world such a dreary scene to the contemplative mind. Mary Wollstonecraft
evil political politics
Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.
evil denial succeed
Those conspiracies that are too incredible to be believed, are by the same right, those which most often succeed. Marshall McLuhan
evil secret denial
Only the small secrets need to be protected. The large ones are kept secret by public incredulity.
evil may draws
We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.
evil notches cases
Before I put another notch in my lipstick case, you better make sure you put me in my place. Pat Benatar
evil division pope
Mr. Churchill, Mr. Prime Minister, how many divisions did you say that the pope had? Joseph Stalin
evil nostalgia exhausted
After having exhausted all the arguments on behalf of evil, one utters the creed's dictums with nostalgia rather than with fervor. Joseph Brodsky
evil political eating
Russian talk of political evil is as natural as eating ...
evil lasts firsts
It is easier to contend with evil at the first than at the last. Leonardo da Vinci
evil age youth
Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.
evil done politics
He who does not oppose evil......commands it to be done.
evil
Not to punish evil is equivalent to authorizing it.
evil world criminal-mind
We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell. Oscar Wilde
evil good-and-evil cases
You can't be afraid to do good in case evil results. Nadine Gordimer
evil way void
In the void is virtue, and no evil. Wisdom has existence, principle has existence, the Way has existence, spirit is nothingness. Miyamoto Musashi
evil may misfortunes
We may escape misfortune for a while, but the evil day will come. Publilius Syrus
evil long wish
What greater evil could you wish a miser, than long life?
evil quiet secure
An evil conscience is often quiet, but never secure.
evil return may
The evil you do to others you may expect in return.
evil want bent
He who is bent on doing evil can never want occasion.