Quotes about evil
evil realizing mankind
Until mankind realizes that there is, in truth, no good, and there is, in truth, no evil-there will be no peace. Shirley MacLaine
evil making-money
You can make money without doing evil. Sergey Brin
evil trying enough
It's not enough not to be evil. We also actively try to be good.
evil giving soul
To humanity, which sometimes seems to be lost and dominated by the power of evil, selfishness and fear, the risen Lord gives the gift of His love which forgives, reconciles and reopens the soul to hope. Pope John Paul II
evil catholic enemy
There is no evil to be faced that Christ does not face with us. There is no enemy that Christ has not already conquered. There is no cross to bear that Christ has not already borne for us, and does not now bear with us.
evil equal good-evil
All evils are equal when they are extreme. Pierre Corneille
evil equal extremes
All evils are equal when they are extreme. [Fr., Et tous maux sont pareils alors qu'ils sont extremes.]
evil borders good-and-evil
The border between good and evil passes not outside of us but within us Pope Francis
evil goodness contagion
If evil is contagious, so is good:therefore, we must allow good to abound in us, more and more;let us be infected by goodness, and let us spread the good contagion.
evil doe praying
Whoever does not pray to God, prays to the devil.
evil firsts defeat
Be the first to seek to bring good, do not grow accustomed to evil, but defeat it.
evil stronger goodness
God’s goodness is stronger than any evil!
evil bleeding armenians
Concealing or denying evil is like allowing a wound to keep bleeding without bandaging it,
evil world doe
Why does God allow evil in the world? To thicken the plot. Ramakrishna
evil ego subjects
There must be a subject to know the good and evil. Thatsubject is the ego. Ramana Maharshi
evil distillation meant-to-be
You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything. Ralph Fiennes
evil destroyed
Evil contained is not evil destroyed. Terry Brooks
evil world enthusiasm
The banality of evil transmutes into the banality of sentimentality. The world is nothing but a problem to be solved by enthusiasm. Teju Cole
evil heaven demand
In Heaven all reviews will be favorable; here on earth, the publisher realizes, plausibility demands an occasional bad one, some convincing lump in all that leaven, and he accepts it somewhat as a theologian accepts Evil. Randall Jarrell
evil slavery merit
The magnitude of this evil among us is so deeply felt, and so universally acknowledged, that no merit could be greater than that of devising a satisfactory remedy for it. James Madison
evil done slavery
If slavery, as a national evil, is to be abolished, and it be just that it be done at the national expense, the amount of the expense is not a paramount consideration.
evil political slavery
Our opinions agree as to the evil, moral, political, and economical, of slavery.
evil abuse growing
There is an evil which ought to be guarded against in the indefinite accumulation of property from the capacity of holding it in perpetuity by...corporations. The power of all corporations ought to be limited in this respect. The growing wealth acquired by them never fails to be a source of abuses.
evil good-and-evil
Good and evil exists everywhere. Taylor Momsen
evil able possibility
Freedom's possibility is not the ability to choose the good or the evil. The possibility is to be able. Soren Kierkegaard
evil impossible framed
The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible. Thomas Hardy
evil purpose sake
Thus, then, stands the case. It is good, that authors should be remunerated; and the least exceptionable way of remunerating them is by a monopoly. Yet monopoly is an evil. For the sake of the good we must submit to the evil; but the evil ought not to last a day longer than is necessary for the purpose of securing the good. Thomas B. Macaulay
evil produce cures
There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.
evil news faster
Evil news fly faster still than good. Thomas Kyd
evil people protect
Let our countrymen know that the people alone can protect us against these evils of misgovernment. Thomas Jefferson
evil way affair
It is a happy circumstance in human affairs that evils which are not cured in one way will cure themselves in some other.
evil trying prohibition
We have seen the evil of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in our midst; let us try prohibition and see what this will do for us Thomas Jordan Jarvis
evil moral constitution
By the very constitution of our nature moral evil is its own curse. Thomas Chalmers