Quotes about evil
evil needs looks
I don't need to be made to look evil. I can do that on my own. Christopher Walken
evil might poison
To while away the day contemplating evils that might have been is to poison the happiness we already have. Christopher Paolini
evil
She's so small, yet she contains so much evil. Christopher Moore
evil want naked
She's evil. Evil, evil, evil. I want to see her naked.
evil giving economy
A check on itself, evil subserves the economies of good, as it were a condiment to give relish to good. Amos Bronson Alcott
evil soul liberty
Evil is retributive: every trespass slips fetters on the will, holds the soul in durance till contrition and repentance restore it to liberty.
evil poetry luck
You must be a poet, a lady of evil luck desiring to be what you are not, longing to be what you can only visit. Anne Sexton
evil age new-age
Don't you see? It is a new age. It requires a new evil. And I am that new evil. Anne Rice
evil forgive-me forgiving
The evil of one murder is infinite, and my guilt is like my beauty - eternal. I cannot be forgiven, for there is no one to forgive me for all I've done.
evil perfect devil
A perfectly evil Devil makes even less sense than a perfect God.
evil lasts tiny
Evil grows and bears fruit, which is understandable, because it has logic and probability on its side and also, of course, strength. The resistance of tiny kernels of good, to which no one grants the power of causing far-reaching consequences, is entirely mysterious, however. Such seeming nothingness not only lasts but contains within itself enormous energy which is revealed gradually. Czeslaw Milosz
evil secret passionate
This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten. D. H. Lawrence
evil villain whole
I love playing bad. But my whole thing is usually villains that don't know that they're evil. Danny Huston
evil forever catholic
The Catholic Church... upheld feudalism, then monarchism, warning of growing evils and possible revolutions. In the same manner, and under the same reservations, she now upholds capitalism; but, above all things and forever, she upholds the Catholic Church. Daniel De Leon
evil
All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them. Daniel Defoe
evil etc oppression
Aside from the occasional genocide, oppression, evil and torture, etc., it is inarguable that public policy could be implemented more rapidly in an autocracy. David Harsanyi
evil deeds death-penalty
An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed in retaliation. Coretta Scott King
evil justice return
Return good for good; return evil with justice. Confucius
evil may diamond
A blemish may be removed from a diamond by careful polishing, but evil words once spoken cannot be effaced.
evil political currency
A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils. Daniel Webster
evil expectations
we generally get the evil we expect ...
evil wickedness may
There is much said about the wickedness of doing evil that good may come. Alas! there is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
evil mystery enough
... good and evil are so interwoven in life that every good, traced up far enough, is found to involve evil. This is the great mystery of life.
evil bears fortitude
CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another. Ambrose Bierce
evil death-of-a-friend enemy
CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another. When Zeno was told that one of his enemies was no more he was observed to be deeply moved. "What!" said one of his disciples, "you weep at the death of an enemy?" "Ah, 'tis true," replied the great Stoic; "but you should see me smile at the death of a friend.".
evil inquiry spirit
To Dogmatism the Spirit of Inquiry is the same as the Spirit of Evil.
evil shadow folly
Wisdom is known only by contrasting it with folly; by shadow only we perceive that all visible objects are not flat. Yet Philanthropos would abolish evil!
evil enemy social
Introduction - a social ceremony invented by the devil for the gratification of his servants and the plaguing of his enemies.
evil bereavement shows
Condole - to show that bereavement is a smaller evil than sympathy.
evil political wish
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
evil forgiving done
Helped are those who forgive; their reward shall be forgetfulness of every evil done to them. It will be in their power, therefore, to envision the new Earth. -----“The Gospel According to Shug Alice Walker
evil who-we-are language
Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.
evil television world
My activism really is for myself, because I see places in the world where I feel I should be. If there is something really bad, really evil, happening somewhere, then that is where I should be. I need, for myself, to feel that I have stood there. It feels a lot better than just watching it on television.