Quotes about evil
evil forgiving needs
No need to repent, no need to forgive - reverse 'evil' to live. Chris Murphy
evil empires terrorism
The evil of predatory global capitalism and empire has spawned the evil of terrorism Chris Hedges
evil giving too-much
Eating too much meat gives you indigestion and evil thoughts make you eat too much meat. Gertrude Stein
evil goal mind
The tragic evils of our life are so commonly unintentional. We did not start out for that poor, cheap goal. That aim was not in our minds at all....Look to the road you are walking on. He who picks up one end of [a] stick picks up the other.He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. Harry Emerson Fosdick
evil desire entertainment
Bind to you friends of your own kind, friends who will encourage you, stand with you, live as you desire to live, who will enjoy the same kind of entertainment, and who will resist the evil that you determine to resist. Gordon B. Hinckley
evil break malady
Evil is the chronic malady of the universe, and checked in one place, breaks forth in another. Herman Melville
evil risk desire
Benevolent desires, after passing a certain point, can not undertake their own fulfillment without incurring the risk of evils beyond those sought to be remedied.
evil literature vengeance
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil. Henry David Thoreau
evil tree good-and-evil
The tree of Knowledge is a Tree of Knowledge of good and evil.
evil flow
Our greatest evils flow from ourselves. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
evil consciousness what-is-life
What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you're not getting the whole thing that's there to be had. Jerry Garcia
evil impossible censorship
As to the evil which results from censorship, it is impossible to measure it, because it is impossible to tell where it ends. Jeremy Bentham
evil hoarding benefits
At times like the present, when the evils of unsound finance threaten us, the speculator may anticipate a harvest gathered from the misfortune of others, the capitalist may protect himself by hoarding or may even find profit in the fluctuations of values; but the wage earner - the first to be injured by a depreciated currency and the last to receive the benefit of its correction - is practically defenseless. Grover Cleveland
evil giving tables
Evil is an act, not an appetite. How many haven't wanted to slash the throat of some boor across the dining room table? Present company excepted of course. Everyone has the appetite. If you give in to it, it, that act is evil. The appetite is normal. Gregory Maguire
evil empty empty-words
And empty words are evil. Homer
evil degrees may
I am not an absolute pacifist, because I can't rule out the possibility that under some, carefully defined circumstances, some degree of violence may be justified, if it is focused directly at a great evil. Howard Zinn
evil suffering together
It is better to suffer wrong than to do wrong, because you can remain the friend of the sufferer; who would want to be the friend of and have to live together with a murderer? Not even another murderer. Hannah Arendt
evil apathy thrive
Evil thrives on apathy and cannot exist without it.
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 world care
Those who would extirpate evil from the world know little of human nature. As well might punch be palatable without souring as existence agreeable without care. James Boswell
evil leaving suffering
Death is not an evil, because it frees us from all evils, and while it takes away good things, it takes away also the desire for them. Old age is the supreme evil, because it deprives us of all pleasures, leaving us only the appetite for them, and it brings with it all sufferings. Nevertheless, we fear death, and we desire old age. Giacomo Leopardi
evil done agents
I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good or evil, has been done freely; I am a free agent. Giacomo Casanova
evil age may
Whatever else we may say of our own age, for good or evil, nobody is likely to call it an Age of Reason. Gilbert K. Chesterton
evil way violence
I ain't the type for begging, I am not the type to plead. If she don't change those evil ways, I'm gonna make her bleed. Frank Zappa
evil
The only thing evil can’t stand is forgiveness. Fred Rogers
evil might infinity
Ask what Infinity might produce and the only answer possible was, "Anything." Any good, any evil; any god, any devil. Frank Herbert
evil tests ultimate
The ultimate test ... to see the good in evil and the evil in good.
evil shining presidential
We asked for God's help; and now, in this shining outcome, in this magnificent triumph of good over evil, we should thank God. George H. W. Bush
evil intention
I didn't have evil intentions, but I guess I did have power. Harmon Killebrew
evil wish speak
Do not wish evil for others. Do not speak ill of others. Do not obstruct anyones activities. Guru Nanak