Quotes about evil
evil people looks
Well, some people say I'm pessimistic because I recognize the eternal cycle of evil. All I say is, look at the history of mankind right up to this moment and what do you find? Wole Soyinka
evil speech foolish
Free speech carries with it the evil of all foolish, unpleasant venomous things that are said but, on the whole, we would rather lump them than do away with them. Winston Churchill
evil temptation lobbyists
If we have Senators and Congressmen there that can't protect themselves against the evil temptations of lobbyists, we don't need to change our lobbies, we need to change our representatives. Will Rogers
evil world telling-the-truth
I am one who tells the truth and exposes evil and seeks with Beauty for Beauty to set the world right. W. E. B. Du Bois
evil deeds stills
This is the course of every evil deed, that, propagating still it brings forth evil. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
evil be-good
The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
evil looks necks
Ah! well a-day! what evil looks / Had I from old and young! / Instead of the cross, the Albatross / About my neck was hung.
evil down-and graves
We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience... It is true, terrors of conscience cast us down; and yet without terrors of conscience we cannot be raised up again. Samuel Rutherford
evil moral left
Almost all the moral good which is left among us is the apparent effect of physical evil. Samuel Johnson
evil degrees reason
Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we ought not to hope too securely, we ought not to fear with to much dejection.
evil worst
The worst evils are those that never arrive.
evil suffering stills
Still we love The evil we do, until we suffer it.
evil consciousness
No evil is insupportable but that which is accompanied with consciousness of wrong.
evil grows concealment
Evil is nourished and grows by concealment. Virgil
evil killers responsible
Adolf Hitler was a vile, heinous, vicious killer responsible for one of the greatest acts of evil committed on this planet. Will Smith
evil mind trying
Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil. Vincent Van Gogh
evil imperfection judgment
To sit in judgment of those things which you perceive to be wrong or imperfect is to be one more person who is part of judgment, evil or imperfection. Wayne Dyer
evil selfishness persecution
There can be no Good Will. Will is always Evil; it is persecution to others or selfishness. William Blake
evil-love evil paradise
wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good. Wallace Stegner
evil looks may
What we look upon as our greatest unhappiness in a difficulty we are involved in, may possibly be the evil hastening to its crisis, and happy days may ensue. Samuel Richardson
evil effort poverty
It would be hard to find a single instance of a direct assault by positive effort upon poverty, vice, and misery which has not either failed or, if it has not failed directly and entirely, has not entailed other evils greater than the one which it removed. William Graham Sumner
evil operations term
Everything understood by the term co-operation is in some sense an evil. William Godwin
evil good-and-evil
Power is not happiness.
evil progress ships
Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it obstructed its fair, comfortable progress in the path of life. William Banting
evil lazy delay
It is my greatest misfortune to be too lazy, and by the few mortifications I have already set with on that account I predict many evils in my future life. I have always the inclination to do what I ought; but by continually procrastinating for tomorrow the business of today, I insensibly delay, until at the end of one month I find myself in the same place as when I began it. Washington Allston
evil trying schedules
I'm very well acquainted with the seven deadly sins, I keep a busy schedule trying to fit them in. Warren Zevon
evil people world
Some people turn from God because they cannot understand how a good God can permit evil in the world. Walter Lang
evil desire harness
We know that it is possible to harness desire to many interests, that evil is one form of a desire, and not the nature of it. Walter Lippmann
evil world stride
Let us confess it: evil strides the world. Voltaire
evil littles obtaining
A little evil is often necessary for obtaining a great good.
evil infidelity adultery
Adultery is an evil only inasmuch as it is a theft; but we do not steal that which is given to us.
evil too-late midst
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils. Walter Scott
evil doe praise
For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears.