Quotes about evil
evil yang world
The world is, was, will always be filled with good and evil, because good and evil is the yin and yang of the human condition. Philip Zimbardo
evil house thieves
You are good when you are one with yourself. Yet when you are not one with yourself you are not evil. For a divided house is not a den of thieves; it is only a divided house. And a ship without rudder may wander aimlessly among perilous isles yet sink not to the bottom. Khalil Gibran
evil saws next
I saw Herschel and he saw me and we stood next to each other because that is what friends do in the presence of evil or love. Jonathan Safran Foer
evil focus succeed
Each one of us has both; good and evil virtues. Those who decide to focus on the good ones succeed in life. Narendra Modi
evil people lazy
The Balopticon [a machine that projects photos on canvas to trace the lines] is an evil, inartistic, habit-forming, lazy and vicious machine! It also is a useful, time-saving, practical and helpful one. I use one often-and am thoroughly ashamed of it. I hide it whenever I hear people coming. Norman Rockwell
evil minorities literature
What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil. Norman Mailer
evil mind machines
The Frenchman Jean-PaulSartre ... had a dialectical mind good as a machine for cybernetics, immense in its way, he could peel a nuance like an onion, but he had no sense of evil, the anguish of God, and the possible existence of Satan.
evil bears scar
Christianity is the only religion whose God bears the scars of evil. Os Guinness
evil judging
In our day it's worse to judge evil than to do evil.
evil hatred police
The most personal thing I've put in [Touch of Evil] is my hatred of the abuse of police power. It's better to see a murderer go free than for a policeman to abuse his power. Orson Welles
evil want way
I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west. Orhan Pamuk
evil deeds possibility
Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished. Orison Swett Marden
evil deception able
Judgment consists not in seeing through deceptions and evil intentions, but in being able to awaken the decency dormant in every person. Eric Hoffer
evil function supreme
The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils. Enoch Powell
evil follow reason shall spoken truth whom
And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
evil left
The Evil One has left, the evil ones remain. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
evil anticipation lost
To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.
evil elements spirit
I am the spirit that negates. And rightly so, for all that comes to be Deserves to perish wretchedly; 'Twere better nothing would begin. Thus everything that that your terms, sin, Destruction, evil represent— That is my proper element.
evil faust
Who are you then?" "I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good.
evil dens dies
The Evil One has left, the evil ones remain. [Ger., Den Bosen sind sie los, die Bosen sind geblieben.]
evil genocide prelude
Evil, unchecked, is the prelude to genocide. - Anonymous Joel C. Rosenberg
evil risk threat
To misunderstand the nature and threat of evil is to risk being blindsided by it.
evil cop robbers
There's good and evil going on. We have cops. We have robbers. Joe Mantegna
evil chocolate battle
The battle of good and evil reduced to a fat woman standing in front of a chocolate shop, saying, Will I? Won’t I? in pitiful indecision. Joanne Harris
evil rats doe
A rat is neither good nor evil. It does what a rat has to do. Jo Nesbo
evil love money root
The love of money is the root of all evil.
evil gita action
My Gita tells me that evil can never result from a good action. Mahatma Gandhi
evil casual nature-of-evil
The true nature of evil is that it is so very casual. James St. James
evil joy suffering
The problem of evil is raised more often by spectators of life than the actual combatants. You will hardly ever find that the great sufferers are the great skeptics. James Stewart
evil judging personality
No sin is committed merely because a thought enters the mind, provided it is not made welcome. Perhaps we may use the figure that the thought first passes into an anteroom, where it stands before the mind acting as a judge. No matter how sordid or evil, it has not touched the personality with its infamy nor in any way laid guilt upon the soul unless and until the mind acting as judge admits it with a welcome. If the mind decides against it and dismisses it, the personality is not only unsullied but is, on the contrary, by this act of rejection stimulated and strengthened in moral power. Norman Vincent Peale
evil heaven moral
How evil life must be if it were indeed necessary that such imploring cries, such cries of physical and moral wretchedness, should ever and ever ascend to heaven! Emile Zola
evil personality destruction
The destruction of the personality is the great evil of the time. Ellen Key
evil definitions different
One person's definition of evil is another person's different definition. Eric Schmidt