Quotes about evil
evil association violence
Its [Communism's] unfortunate association with violence encourages a certain evil tendency in human beings. Jawaharlal Nehru
evil poison grows
Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.
evil regimes interest
As so often happens in politics, what appears to be politically expedient for those in power rarely overlaps with the public interest. The lesser evils of the regime become entrenched, while the greater good is never realized. Jason Stearns
evil knows know-how
True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good--and we all know how rare that is... Jasper Fforde
evil occupation idleness
Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil.... Hippocrates
evil issues prosecutor unless
You're not a prosecutor unless you've got your own issues with evil. Scott Turow
evil apathy thrive
Evil thrives on apathy and cannot exist without it. Hannah Arendt
evil weakness forget
Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil.
evil strange interdependence
There is a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil.
evil people littles
He asks how the evil is to be remedied. I tell him that there seems to be little chance for avoiding the extremes of despotism or anarchy; that the only ground of hope must be the morals of the people, but that these are, I fear, too corrupt. Gouverneur Morris
evil greed mind
To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil. Gore Vidal
evil way knows
We cannot freely and wisely choose the right way for ourselves unless we know both good and evil. Helen Keller
evil optimism effort
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail.
evil looks kind
They kind of look like evil lawn gnomes Cassandra Clare
evil love money pierced root themselves
For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
evil joy suffering
The melancholy joys of evils pass'd, For he who much has suffer'd, much will know. Homer
evil
And would'st thou evil for his good repay?
evil looks woe
Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies.
evil hatred
Evil, why do you infest the purest thoughts with hatred? Stevie Wonder
evil world mutation
Exploitation, mutilation, mutations, confirmation to the evils of the world.
evil sound brands
To me, a 'brand' sounds evil. Steven Moffat
evil may able
Up until today evil has lured goodness into evil, but goodness has not been able to lure evil into goodness. This may be the reason why up to today Christianity has not been able to boldly fulfill the Will of God. Sun Myung Moon
evil faces silent
To remain silent in the face of evil is itself a form of evil. Sue Monk Kidd
evil frailty
Great for good, or great for evil. Robert Burns
evil broken perfect
There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before; The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying sound; What was good shall be good, with for evil so much good more; On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven, a perfect round. Robert Browning
evil grace doe
Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent. John Calvin
evil use instruments
So great and boundless is God's wisdom that he knows right well how to use evil instruments to do good.
evil fellowship kind
Whomever the Lord has adopted and deemed worthy of His fellowship ought to prepare themselves for a hard, toilsome, and unquiet life, crammed with very many and various kinds of evil.
evil authority
To resist him that is set in authority is evil John Bartlett
evil mind patterns
A benevolent mind, and the face assumes the patterns of benevolence. An evil mind, then an evil face. Jimmy Sangster
evil soul entrances
Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself. George A. Smith
evil perceive
Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
evil islam wicked
Islam is an evil and wicked religion. Franklin Graham