Quotes about evil
evil soul forget
We too often forget that not only is there 'a soul of goodness in things evil,' but very generally also, a soul of truth in things erroneous. Herbert Spencer
evil break malady
Evil is the chronic malady of the universe, and checked in one place, breaks forth in another. Herman Melville
evil worst officers
The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
evil risk desire
Benevolent desires, after passing a certain point, can not undertake their own fulfillment without incurring the risk of evils beyond those sought to be remedied.
evil humanity atheism
Those of us who always abhorred slavery as an atheistical iniquity, gladly we join in the exulting chorus of humanity over its downfall.
evil literature vengeance
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil. Henry David Thoreau
evil tree good-and-evil
The tree of Knowledge is a Tree of Knowledge of good and evil.
evil flow
Our greatest evil flows from ourselves. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
evil
Physical evils destroy themselves, or they destroy us.
evil good-and-evil doing-good
By doing good we become good.
evil flow
Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.
evil people innocence
People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.
evil world care
Those who would extirpate evil from the world know little of human nature. As well might punch be palatable without souring as existence agreeable without care. James Boswell
evil world greater
There are many powers in the world, for good or for evil. Some are greater than I am. Against some I have not yet been measured. But my time is coming. J. R. R. Tolkien
evil broken world
For so sworn good or evil an oath may not be broken and it shall pursue oathkeeper and oathbreaker to the world's end.
evil mortality
For nothing is evil in the beginning.
evil paradise fool
It is written, better to be a fool all your days than for one hour to be evil. You are not a fool. They are the fools. For he who causes his neighbor to feel shame loses Paradise himself. Isaac Bashevis Singer
evil
All evil is good become cancerous. Isaac Asimov
evil people would-be
Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances. Iris Chang
evil principles reason
The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason. Immanuel Kant
evil hatred quality
The evil that we do does not attract to us so much persecution and hatred as our good qualities. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
evil justice doe
God has ordained the state as a delegated authority; it is not autonomous. The state is to be an agent of justice, to restrain evil by punishing the wrongdoer, and to protect the good in society. When it does the reverse, it has no proper authority. It is then a usurped authority and as such it becomes lawless and is tyranny. Francis Schaeffer
evil pluck
Better one thorn pluck'd out than all remain. Horace
evil decision doe
The closed language does not demonstrate and explain it communicates decision, dictum, command. Where it defines, the definition becomes "separation of good from evil;" it establishes unquestionable Herbert Marcuse
evil despair world
There's only one great evil in the world today. Despair. Evelyn Waugh
evil people trying
People always try to find base motives behind every good action. We are afraid of pure goodness and of pure evil. Eugene Ionesco
evil feels immoral
Only that which makes you feel bad after doing is immoral. Ernest Hemingway
evil good-against-evil fighting-evil
Being against evil doesn't make you good.
evil long doe
We human beings cause monstrous conditions, but precisely because we cause them we soon learn to adapt ourselves to them. Only if we become such that we can no longer adapt ourselves, only if, deep inside, we rebel against every kind of evil, will we be able to put a stop to it. ... while everything within us does not yet scream out in protest, so long will we find ways of adapting ourselves, and the horrors will continue. Etty Hillesum
evil christian-inspirational people
If there is one single reason why good people turn evil, it is because they fail to recognize God’s ownership over their kingdom, their vocation, their resources, their abilities, and above all their lives. Erwin W. Lutzer
evil users
Power is neither good nor evil, but its user makes it so. Erin Hunter
evil substitutes inverted
We must substitute fear for faith, for fear is only inverted faith; it is faith in evil instead of good. Florence Scovel Shinn
evil culture good-and-evil
Good and evil appear to be joined in every culture at the spine. Flannery O'Connor