Quotes about evil
evil faces truth-is
Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil. Menander
evil excess goodness
The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.
evil negative goodness
Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else. Mencius
evil forever deceit
Love binds, and it binds forever. Good binds while evil unravels. Separation is another word for evil; it is also another word for deceit. Michel Houellebecq
evil imaginary
Imaginary evils are incurable. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
evil liberty wells
True liberty is not liberty to do evil as well as good. John Winthrop
evil messages violence
I have never intended in any of my films to sell violence or to glorify it. Even in the most intense action sequences in my films, there is a message about how evil violence is. John Woo
evil deeds friars
I shall not die, but live; and again declare the evil deeds of the friars. John Wycliffe
evil ornaments railroads
Another of the strange and evil tendencies of the present day is the decoration of the railroad station... There was never more flagrant nor impertinent folly than the smallest portion of ornament in anything connected with the railroads... Railroad architecture has or would have a dignity of its own if it were only left to its work. John Ruskin
evil abuse balance
Nothing is of its nature evil, and nothing is of its nature good. Evil is only excess, good is simply balance. All things are subject to abuse, all things are susceptible to beneficial use. And balance does not consist in denial, or excess of indulgence. John Parsons
evil world needs
If I could, Sister James, I would certainly choose to live in innocence. But innocence can only be wisdom in a world without evil. Situations arise and we are confronted with wrongdoing and the need to act. John Patrick Shanley
evil temptation gains
Temptation gains power by persistent solicitations that beget thoughts that make evil less serious John Owen
evil threatening holy
It is one thing to fear God as threatening, with a holy reverence, and another to be afraid of the evil threatened.
evil news bait
For evil news rides post, while good news baits. John Milton
evil
Evil, be thou my good.
evil promise followers
That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure; her whiteness is but an excremental whiteness.
evil recoil
Evil on itself shall back recoil.
evil force ideals
The evil was not in either ideal; the evil was in the attempt to impose that ideal by force upon others. Norman Angell
evil use
Use your powers for good instead of evil Nnedi Okorafor
evil giving goal
To some people the ego is evil. It gives you so much. It gives you everything you want. But it takes back too much in return. It gives you everything: money, riches, women, glamour, everything you want. But in return it takes back so much, and you're soulless. That's its goal. The ego's goal is to leave you soulless. Mike Tyson
evil
Where there's music there can be no evil. Miguel de Cervantes
evil goodness
Seek for good, but expect evil.
evil ifs
Evil comes not amiss if it comes alone.
evil slavery captivity
Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.
evil ownership source
We cannot remove the evils of capitalism without taking its source of power: ownership. Neil Kinnock
evil sick
You're sick. Sick and evil and weird. Neil Gaiman
evil triumph action
I do not permit affection, or lack thereof, to influence my actions. There is good, and there is evil. The good must be protected; the evil eradicated. I have shown you the triumph of evil, as a caution.
evil reactions distress
Depend upon it; from every condition of distress or evil, there is a great reaction, and the greater the distress or evil, the greater the reaction. Theodore Dreiser
evil mind world
Triviality is evil - triviality, that is, in the form of consciousness and mind that adapts itself to the world as it is, that obeys the principle of inertia. And this principle of inertia truly is what is radically evil. Theodor Adorno
evil-people people evil
Very evil people cannot really be imagined dying.
evil soul alive
Empty and cold, but it keep me alive. I gave it my soul, so that I could survive. Melissa Etheridge
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