Quotes about evil
evil wish
To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better. Claudius
evil misogyny walks
Why are you wearing that negligee? Sure makes it hard to walk away. Clay Walker
evil face looked
His face looked kind of lifeless. It looked evil.
evil done guts
Was aus Liebe getan wird, geschieht immer jenseits von Gut und Böse. (What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.) Friedrich Nietzsche
evil judging ideals
Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.
evil unjust
[Heraclitus] concluded that coming-to-be itself could not be anything evil or unjust.
evil age golden
The golden age, when rambunctious spirits were regarded as the source of evil.
evil doe horror
When horror is associated with what is harmful, evil results, when disgust does, badness.
evil redemption morality
This is the crux of the moral pessimists: if they really wanted to promote their neighbor's redemption, then they would have to resolve themselves to spoiling existence for him, and thus to being his misfortune; out of pity, they would have to--become evil!
evil long people
A sure way to irritate people and to put evil thoughts into their heads is to keep them waiting a long time. This makes them immoral.
evil earth forests
We should conserve evil just as we should conserve the forests. It is true that by thinning and clearing the forests the earth grew warmer.
evil judging people
Prejudice of the learned. - The learned judge correctly that people of all ages have believed they know what is good and evil, praise- and blameworthy. But it is a prejudice of the learned that we now know better than any other age.
evil poverty firsts
The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor. George Bernard Shaw
evil poverty crime
The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.
evil policy
My only policy is to profess evil and do good.
evil pardon
Those who understand evil pardon it.
evil good-and-evil justified
I am justified. For I chose wisdom and the knowledge of good and evil ; and now there is no evil; and wisdom and good are one. It is enough.
evil saws firsts
The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL; but as the inscription was on the outside, the prisoners could not read it.
evil deception trying
Everything is deception: seeking the minimum of illusion, keeping within the ordinary limitations, seeking the maximum. In the first case one cheats the Good, by trying to make it too easy for oneself to get it, and the Evil by imposing all too unfavorable conditions of warfare on it. In the second case one cheats the Good by keeping as aloof from it as possible, and the Evil by hoping to make it powerless through intensifying it to the utmost. Franz Kafka
evil whiplash motive
The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil.
evil demand accepted
When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands to be believed.
evil doe paradise
In Paradise, as always: that which causes the sin and that which recognizes it for what it is are one. The clear conscience is Evil, which is so entirely victorious that it does not any longer consider the leap from left to right necessary.
evil literature madness
Evil is whatever distracts.
evil giving groups
There is nothing inhuman, evil, or irrational which does not give some comfort, provided it is shared by a group. Erich Fromm
evil fundamentals rationalize
...it is in the very fundamentals of evil that one always condemns it when they see it but rationalizes it when they do it. Jack L. Chalker
evil spirituality modern
To the modern spirit, disillusioned, or at least unillusioned, the great evil to be avoided is sentimentality. Irwin Edman
evil action existence
There are neither good nor evil, only the existence and action. Irving Stone
evil mouth
Because, where I'm from, you see no evil, you do no evil. If you see something, you keep your mouth shut.
evil earth mass
Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth. Hans Bender
evil mind being-positive
You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between them are countless facets. Therefore, concentrate on the depth of your consciousness and on what you consider to be positive and good.
evil forgiving resentment
Resentment is an evil so costly to our peace that we should find it more cheap to forgive even were it no more right. Hannah More
evil laziness may
Life though a short, is a working day. Activity may lead to evil; but inactivity cannot be led to good.
evil abuse language
The abuse of terms has at all times been an evil.