Quotes about evil
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. Leonardo da Vinci
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 stories want
It's one thing to not want an evil-sorcerer type villain in your story, but it's another thing to avoid having any sort of antagonist at all. A story without an antagonist gets weird pretty quick. Patrick Rothfuss
evil planets filthy
Our planet is being turned into a filthy and evil-smelling imperialist barrack. Leon Trotsky
evil greater-good greater
The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil. Larry Wall
evil envy political
The urge to distribute wealth equally, and still more the belief that it can be brought about by political action, is the most dangerous of all popular emotions. It is the legitimation of envy, of all the deadly sins the one which a stable society based on consensus should fear the most. The monster state is a source of many evils; but it is, above all, an engine of envy. Paul Johnson
evil toss crooks
The most evil person I ever met was a toss-up between Pablo Picasso and the publisher-crook Robert Maxwell.
evil liberty world
Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world. Oliver Ellsworth
evil ability extremes
Extreme good, extreme evil: the abilities required are similar. Margaret Atwood
evil complicated sometimes
Don't misunderstand me. I am not scoffing at goodness, which is far more difficult to explain than evil, and far more complicated. But sometimes it's hard to put up with.
evil evil-thoughts madden
It is our own evil thoughts which madden us. Marcus Tullius Cicero
evil passing-away making-a-difference
If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.
evil should exes
Of evils one should choose the least. [Lat., Ex malis eligere minima oportere.]
evil republic may
How great an evil do you see that may have been announced by you against the Republic? - Videtis quantum scelus contra rem publicam vobis nuntiatum sit?
evil stronger bud
Every evil in the bud is easily crushed: as it grows older, it becomes stronger.
evil sides evil-side
I can pretty much get in touch with my evil side pretty easily. Kelly Hu
evil purpose communism
Is there conscience in the Kremlin? Do they ever ask themselves what is the purpose of life? What is it all for?... No. Their creed is barren of conscience, immune to the promptings of good and evil. Margaret Thatcher
evil goodness badness
as I get older there is nothing more constantly astonishing to me than the goodness of the Bad; - unless it is the badness of the Good. Margaret Deland
evil temptation erring
Moralists and philosophers have adjudged those who throw temptation in the way of the erring, equally guilty with those who are thereby led into evil Mark Twain
evil farewell good hope thou
So farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear, Farewell Remorse: all Good to me is lost; Evil be thou my Good John Milton
evil good news rides
Evil news rides post, while good news bates
evil ignorance misuse
evil is not power; it is ignorance and misuse of good. James Allen
evil finds individual itself large nor reason respond rhyme small wherever willing
Evil finds itself in the large cities, the small cities, the villages, ... Wherever there is an individual who is willing to respond to that evil, you're going to find it. I don't think there is rhyme nor reason to this.
evil lack money root
The lack of money is the root of all evils.
evil goodness harder
When "Do no Evil" has been understood, Then learn the harder, braver rule, "Do Good. Arthur Guiterman
evil degrees relative
There is no such thing as evil. Only relative degrees of good. Meher Baba
evil progress environmental
The sharing of goods and resources, from which authentic development proceeds, is not guaranteed by merely technical progress and relationships of utility, but by the potential of love that overcomes evil with good. Pope Benedict XVI
evil abortion catholic
A Catholic would be guilty of formal cooperation in evil, and so unworthy to present himself for Holy Communion, if he were to deliberately vote for a candidate precisely because of the candidate's permissive stand on abortion and/or euthanasia.
evil answers faces
In the face of horror ... there is no other answer than the cross of Christ: Love that descends to the abyss of evil.
evil giving soul
To humanity, which sometimes seems to be lost and dominated by the power of evil, selfishness and fear, the risen Lord gives the gift of His love which forgives, reconciles and reopens the soul to hope. Pope John Paul II
evil catholic enemy
There is no evil to be faced that Christ does not face with us. There is no enemy that Christ has not already conquered. There is no cross to bear that Christ has not already borne for us, and does not now bear with us.