Quotes about evil
evil towns palaces
Prostitution in the towns is like the cesspool in the palace: take away the cesspool and the palace will become an unclean and evil-smelling place. Thomas Aquinas
evil use action
One cannot use an evil action with reference to a good intention.
evil substance body
We ought to cherish the body. Our body's substance is not from an evil principle, as the Manicheans imagine, but from God. And therefore, we ought to cherish the body by the friendship of love, by which we love God.
evil catholic purity-and-love
In the realm of evil thoughts none induces to sin as much as do thoughts that concern the pleasure of the flesh.
evil violence forbidden
It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil. Tertullian
evil failing our-relationship
We are not evil, inadequate or incompetent when our relationships fail. Leo Buscaglia
evil process
The process of nature cannot be evil. Joseph Campbell
evil alive irony
You yourself are participating in the evil, or you are not alive. Whatever you do is evil for somebody. This is one of the ironies of the whole creation.
evil joy sorrow
All societies are evil, sorrowful, inequitable; and so they will always be. So if you really want to help this world, what you will have to teach is how to live in it. And that no one can do who has not himself learned how to live in it in the joyful sorrow and sorrowful joy of the knowledge of life as it is.
evil small-nations nations
Small nations are like indecently dressed women. They tempt the evil-minded. Julius Nyerere
evil world deeds
It is forbidden to be merciful to them. You must send missiles to them and annihilate them. They are evil and damnable. [...] The Lord shall return the Arabs' deeds on their own heads, waste their seed and exterminate them, devastate them and vanish them from this world. Ovadia Yosef
evil faces
Evil doesn't always have one face, Ethan. Kami Garcia
evil
Power is neither good nor evil.
evil opposition
Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies. Joyce Meyer
evil wicked reborn
If you are a good economist, a virtuous economist, you are reborn as a physicist. But if you are an evil, wicked economist, you are reborn as a sociologist. Paul Krugman
evil quality looks
If you permit your thoughts to dwell on evil you yourself will become ugly. Look only for the good in everything so you absorb the quality of beauty. Paramahansa Yogananda
evil habit results
These are the evils which result from gossiping habits. Ovid
evil mind may
All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
evil daddy bird
No, Kramisha, he's not black. He's a killer bird with evil for his Daddy. P. C. Cast
evil spirit
All spirits are enslaved which serve things evil Percy Bysshe Shelley
evil soul earth
You would not easily guess All the modes of distress Which torture the tenants of earth; And the various evils, Which like so many devils, Attend the poor souls from their birth.
evil slaying annihilation
Annihilation itself is no death to evil. Only good where evil was, is evil dead. An evil thing must live with its evil until it chooses to be good. That alone is the slaying of evil. George MacDonald
evil
To be afraid is to have more faith in evil than in God. Emmet Fox
evil doe persons
A person who knows all that is good and all that is true---as much as can be known---but does not resist evils, knows nothing. Emanuel Swedenborg
evil accepting walks
Never accept evil as something you must walk with, something you deserve. Ellen Hopkins
evil
Evil is not intrinsic. It's fashioned.
evil accepted not-sure
I nod, because I do understand. I'm just not sure how to go about divorcing myself from the evil I've already accepted.
evil tree may
He that doth righteousness; that is, righteousness which the gospel calleth so, is righteous; that is, precedent to, or before he doth that righteousness. For he doth not say, he shall make his person righteous by acts of righteousness that he shall do; for then an evil tree may bear good fruit, yea, and make itself good by doing so; but he saith, He that doth righteousness is righteous; as he saith, He that doth righteousness is born of him. John Bunyan
evil can-do
Evil can do anything, for a price. Lois Lowry
evil wish
Evil cannot be conquered by wishing. Lloyd Alexander
evil mask
Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?
evil vader epitome
To me, Darth Vader is the epitome of evil. Manu Bennett
evil literature dubious
How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question. Lytton Strachey