Quotes about evil
evil overcoming triumph
...love triumphs, at least in this life, not by eliminating evil once for all, but by resisting and overcoming it anew every day. Thomas Merton
evil may fallacy
There is no permanent place in this universe for evil... Evil may hide behind this fallacy and that, but it will be hunted from fallacy to fallacy until there is no more fallacy for it to hide behind. Thomas Carlyle
evil wicked alive
The dead are all holy, even they that were base and wicked while alive. Their baseness and wickedness was not they, was but the heavy and unmanageable environment that lay round them.
evil battle misery
Evil, once manfully fronted, ceases to be evil; there is generous battle-hope in place of dead, passive misery; the evil itself has become a kind of good.
evil goodness entanglement
How indestructibly the good grows, and propagates itself, even among the weedy entanglements of evil.
evil triumph deliverance
In the huge mass of evil as it rolls and swells, there is ever some good working toward deliverance and triumph.
evil doubt tragedy
I don't doubt that God can bring good out of tragedies, but the Bible is clear that God is not the author of evil! Tony Campolo
evil islam muhammad
When leading evangelicals say terrible things about Islam, evil things about Islam, terrible things about Muhammad, they ought to be ashamed of themselves.
evil arrogant majority
Apartheid — both petty and grand — is obviously evil. Nothing can justify the arrogant assumption that a clique of foreigners has the right to decide on the lives of a majority. Steven Biko
evil apartheid petty
Apartheid - both petty and grand - is obviously evil
evil liberty nazism
Evil comes in many forms and seems to reinvent itself time and again. But whatever it calls itself - Nazism, Marxist-Leninism, today, terrorism - they all have one thing in common: the destruction, the end of human liberty. Stephen Harper
evil battle participants
The battle between good and evil is endlessly fascinating because we are participants every day. Stephen King
evil gossip people
Be thou good thyself, and let people speak evil of thee; it is better than to be wicked, and that they should consider thee as good. Saadi
evil perfect insightful
It must be hard being you,” she said. “Mr. Perfect on the outside. Dr. Evil on the inside.” “It’s not that hard. The rest of the world isn’t as insightful as you. Susan Elizabeth Phillips
evil banality subjects
Cannot Hannah Arendt's 'banality of evil' be subject to transposition: the evil of banality? Studs Terkel
evil crap load
Don't be evil is a load of crap. Steve Jobs
evil venom malice
Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom. St. Jerome
evil mind world
The world's oldest wisdom: each evil thought infuses the mind, sooner or later, with an unholy fear. Sri Chinmoy
evil way bed
You're like the devil with horns in your head, the only way I'll get you is to get you in bed. Ringo Starr
evil speak feels
If there is any person to whom you feel a dislike, that is the person of whom you ought never to speak.
evil good-evil unbelief
Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse.
evil firsts survived
The presence of evil was something to be first recognized, then dealt with, survived, outwitted, triumphed over. Toni Morrison
evil care choose-wisely
Either God can do nothing to stop catastrophes like this, or he doesn't care to, or he doesn't exist. God is either impotent, evil, or imaginary. Take your pick, and choose wisely. Sam Harris
evil soul suffering
Souls are punished when they have gone forth from the body, some wandering among us, some going to hot or cold places of the earth, some harassed by spirits. Under all circumstances they suffer with the irrational part of their nature, with which they also sinned. For its sake there subsists that shadowy body which is seen about graves, especially the graves of evil livers. Sallust
evil impossible framed
The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible. Thomas Hardy
evil purpose sake
Thus, then, stands the case. It is good, that authors should be remunerated; and the least exceptionable way of remunerating them is by a monopoly. Yet monopoly is an evil. For the sake of the good we must submit to the evil; but the evil ought not to last a day longer than is necessary for the purpose of securing the good. Thomas B. Macaulay
evil produce cures
There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.
evil news faster
Evil news fly faster still than good. Thomas Kyd
evil people protect
Let our countrymen know that the people alone can protect us against these evils of misgovernment. Thomas Jefferson
evil way affair
It is a happy circumstance in human affairs that evils which are not cured in one way will cure themselves in some other.
evil trying prohibition
We have seen the evil of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in our midst; let us try prohibition and see what this will do for us Thomas Jordan Jarvis
evil moral constitution
By the very constitution of our nature moral evil is its own curse. Thomas Chalmers
evil moral curse
... moral evil is its own curse.