Quotes about evil
evil different
Different isn't evil, it's just different. Laurell K. Hamilton
evil candy pleasant
Why was so much evil pleasant, pretty on the outside, like poisoned candy?
evil giving ordinary
Give a truly good person power, and they’re still a good person. Give a bad person power, and they’re still a bad person. The question is always about the person in between. The one that isn’t evil, or good, but just ordinary. You don’t always know what an ordinary person is like on the inside.
evil visuals
More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all. Lars von Trier
evil may triumph
Evil will never find peace. It may triumph, but it will never find peace L. J. Smith
evil charity causes
The best philanthropy is constantly in search of the finalities-a search for a cause, an attempt to cure evils at their source. John D. Rockefeller
evil way ends
There is only one way to put an end to evil, and that is to do good for evil. Leo Tolstoy
evil known tolerable
The best known evil is the most tolerable. Livy
evil silence freedom-of-speech
If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence. Louis D. Brandeis
evil devil firsts
The devil was the first democrat Lord Byron
evil literature mystery
Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
evil done way
Quaternions came from Hamilton after his really good work had been done, and though beautifully ingenious, have been an unmixed evil to those who have touched them in any way. Lord Kelvin
evil rooms population
How in heck are they handling their surplus population in Hell these days? Maybe by the time you and I are in the queue there won't be room for us. Malcolm Forbes
evil suffering free-will
We suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them! Maimonides
evil certain existence
The so-called evils are evils only in relation to a certain thing, and that which is evil in relation to a certain existing thing, either includes the non-existence of that thing or the non-existence of some of its good conditions.
evil balance world
One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed.
evil ears world
To say that God permits evil in the world may not be pleasing to the ear. But if He is held responsible for the good, it follows that He has to be responsible for the evil too. Mahatma Gandhi
evil tolerance may
Tolerance cannot afford to have anything to do with the fallacy that evil may convert itself to good. Freya Stark
evil liberty grows
Where liberty dies, evil grows. Hamid Karzai
evil weapons needed
I have always felt as though I needed a weapon against evil. Gordon Parks
evil allowing
I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand.
evil nine excuse
Nine times out of ten it is the coarse word that condemns an evil, and the refined word that excuses it. Gilbert K. Chesterton
evil common nonsense
To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil. John Dryden
evil may valiant
I am devilishly afraid, that's certain; but ... I'll sing, that I may seem valiant.
evil growth world
The destruction of the inducement to invest by an excessive liquidity-preference was the outstanding evil, the prime impediment to the growth of wealth, in the ancient and medieval worlds. John Maynard Keynes
evil long mind
The spectacle of modern investment markets has sometimes moved me towards the conclusion that to make the purchase of an investment permanent and indissoluble, like marriage, except by reason of death or other grave cause, might be a useful remedy for our contemporary evils. For this would force the investor to direct his mind to the long-term prospects and to those only.
evil heaven looks
I'm not a god or the God, but we're all God and we're all potentially divine — and potentially evil. We all have everything within us and the Kingdom of Heaven is nigh and within us, and if you look hard enough you'll see it. John Lennon
evil political religion
We're all God. I'm not a god or the God, but we're all God and we're all potentially divine-and potentially evil.
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.