Quotes about evil
evil gears kind
I've always had a fondness for that satirical, Terry Gilliam - esque evil corporate megastructure, the kind of business that hangs banners that say making your life better as it throws kittens into the gears. Chris Hardwick
evil abuse satire
Satire is an abuse of wit. It corrects few evils.
evil way poverty
Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
evil doe belief
God has created too few unmixed evils to warrant the belief that death is one of them. In all things else in nature, goodness so abounds that we are authorized to infer that it does not stop even at the grave. It is only that her footprints have become invisible.
evil politics easier
Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him. Fyodor Dostoevsky
evil want claws
Of all evil I deem you capable: Therefore I want good from you. Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws. Friedrich Nietzsche
evil shameless poet
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
evil good-and-evil illusion
There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.
evil monsters
Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?
evil language mask
The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much bigger business of plunder. Frantz Fanon
evil
It is good insofar as it is not evil. Franz Grillparzer
evil widows sulfur
The devil, he's about this big. He had a red suit on and a widow's peak, and then a pointed tail, and like a sulfur reek. Yes, it was him alright, I swear. Frank Zappa
evil nature-of-evil true-nature
..to change something you do not understand is the true nature of evil. Jeanette Winterson
evil world
In the world we make good as evil and evil as good. Jim Caviezel
evil people treasure
Covetousness teaches people to be cruel and crafty, industrious and evil, full of care and malice; and after all this, it is for no good to itself, for it dares not spend those heaps of treasure which it has snatched. Jeremy Taylor
evil looks
The greatest evils, are from within us; and from ourselves also we must look for the greatest good.
evil world spirit
since God has appointed one remedy for all the evils in the world and that is a contented spirit.
evil video
Make movies. Don't make videos. Videos are evil. Jeff Ament
evil vampire humans
I love the Underworld movies because the vampires arent automatically evil, yet neither are they basically humans with fangs. Jeaniene Frost
evil be-good values
To choose this or that is to affirm at the same time the value of what we choose, because we can never choose evil. We always choose the good, and nothing can be good for us without being good for all. Jean-Paul Sartre
evil restraint emancipation
To choose evil is to choose freedom, emancipation from all restraint. Georges Bataille
evil damnation action
If one evil thought, if one evil word, if one evil action, deserves eternal damnation, how many hells, my friends, do every one of us deserve, whose whole lives have been one continued rebellion against God! George Whitefield
evil slavery masters
Every one must understand that, whatever be the evil of slavery, it is not increased by its diffusion. Every one familiar with it knows that it is in proportion to its sparseness that it becomes less objectionable. Wherever there is an immediate connexion between the master and slave, whatever there is of harshness in the system is diminished. Jefferson Davis
evil crime
Some smaller crimes always precede the great crimes. Jean Racine
evil joy flow
The joys of the evil flow away like a torrent.
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.)
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.