Quotes about evil
evil growth rapids
No propagation or multiplication is more rapid that that of evil, unless it be checked; no growth more certain. Charles Caleb Colton
evil giving decision
Accustom yourself to submit on all and every occasion, and on the most minute, no less than on the most important circumstances of life, to a small present evil, to obtain a greater distant good. This will give decision, tone, and energy to the mind, which, thus disciplined, will often reap victory from defeat and honor from repulse.
evil unhappy ends
Good never come of such evil, a happier end was not in nature to so unhappy a beginning. Charles Dickens
evil hatred debt
It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse.
evil wells decided
It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'. Charles Simmons
evil confusion people
We're living in a fearful time. Since 9/11 people have become more afraid than before, because of terrorism. There's a lot of confusion about evil, where it's all coming from. Charles Stanley
evil would-be action
If we do wrong and no harm comes of it, we are not thereby justified. If we did evil and good came of it, the evil would be just as evil. It is not the result of the action, but the action itself which God weighs. Charles Spurgeon
evil imagination worst
The worst evils of life are those which do not exist except in our imagination.
evil good-and-evil incompetence
Evil is a form of incompetence. Alan Bullock
evil use may
The main thing is this: we should never blame anyone or anything for our defeats. No matter how evil their intentions may be, they are altogether unable to harm us until we begin to blame them and use them as excuses for our own unbelief. Aiden Wilson Tozer
evil people extravagant
The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it. Chester A. Arthur
evil doorways conditions
Not woman, but the condition of woman, has always been a doorway of evil. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
evil political causes
Evil person causes harm even if treated will. Chanakya
evil vision wicked
Angelic Sookie, vision of love and beauty, I am prostrate that the wicked evil maenad violated your smooth and voluptuous body, in an attempt to deliver a message to me. -Eric Charlaine Harris
evil joy making-love
What I say is that the supreme and singular joy of making love resides in the certainty of doing evil. Charles Baudelaire
evil literature born
We are all born marked for evil.
evil would-be behavior
Well in the history of the See's Candy Company they always say, "I never did it before, and I'm never going to do it again." And we cashier them. It would be evil not to, because terrible behavior spreads. Charlie Munger
evil shelter clients
You'll better understand the evil when top audit firms started selling fraudulent tax shelters when I tell you that one told me that they're better [than the others] because they only sold [the schemes] to their top-20 clients, so no-one would notice.
evil choices taxation
Taxation under every form presents but a choice of evils. David Ricardo
evil religion doe
If God is omnipotent, omniscient and wholly good, whence evil? If God wills to prevent evil but cannot, then He is not omnipotent. If He can prevent evil but does not, then he is not good. In either case he is not God. David Hume
evil design temptation
God designs that those whom He sanctifies...shall tarry awhile in this present evil world, that their own experience of temptations may teach them how great the deliverance is, which God has wrought for them. David Brainerd
evil accepting
Those who won't accept evil never get anything good. August Strindberg
evil liberty libertarian
The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder. Frederic Bastiat
evil gone trouble
No evil lost is wailed when it is gone. William Shakespeare
evil neglect preparing
The Englishman is too apt to neglect the present good in preparing against the possible evil. Washington Irving
evil desire sanctuary
Can it be That modesty may more betray our sense Than woman's lightness? Having waste ground enough, Shall we desire to raze the sanctuary And pitch our evils there?
evil understanding wish
Michael Koryta isn’t just one of the finest authors working in the crime genre today. He’s simply one of today’s finest authors, period. His stories are taut, compelling, and beautifully rendered. His understanding of human nature-the good, the evil, and all the gray between-is masterful. THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD is Koryta at his best. William Kent Krueger
evil defeated
Evil cannot be accommodated. It must be defeated. Cal Thomas
evil demon restraint
We tolerate, even promote, many things we once regarded as evil, wrong, or immoral. And then we seek "explanations" for an act that seems beyond comprehension. Remove societal restraints on some evils and one can expect the demons to be freed to conduct other evil acts.
evil doe bigs
Good does not become better by being exaggerated, but worse; And a small evil becomes a big one through being disregarded and repressed. Carl Jung
evil darkness understanding
Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.
evil people progress
It is only when people can feel that their lives and the property which their industry has produced today will continue to be safe...that there can be...stability of value and...economic progress... Calvin Coolidge
evil principles world
Unless we lay our course in accordance with this principle, the great power for good in the world with which we have been intrusted by a Divine Providence will be turned to a power for evil.