Quotes about evil
evil use want
Like anything else, you can use the Internet for good or ill. You can get out of it what you want to. There's no evil about it. The way I see it, it's a liberation. Willie Nelson
evil work-out crucible
Perhaps evil is the crucible of goodness... and perhaps even Satan - Satan, in spite of himself - somehow serves to work out the will of God. William Peter Blatty
evil world envious
That some are poorer than others, ever was and ever will be: And that many are naturally querulous and envious, is an Evil as old as the World. William Petty
evil essentials ability
The ability to choose is at the essential core of our grandeur. Even evil exists because God respects our ability to choose. William P. Young
evil may moral
To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals. William Penn
evil overcoming guilty
To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations. William Penn
evil long mind
I have long gone about with a conviction on my mind that I had a work to do-a Work, if you like, with a great W; a Purpose to fulfil; ... a Great Social Evil to Discover and to Remedy. William Makepeace Thackeray
evil immoral
It is immoral to see evil and not act on it. Robert Kennedy
evil doe harm
It seems to me it's always the evil we refuse to see that does us the greatest harm. Robert Baer
evil human-nature communism
Communism starts with the proposition that there are no universal truths or general truths of human nature. Richard M. Nixon
evil good-and-evil sanity
Sanity is all that stands between good and evil. Raymond E. Feist
evil decision mankind
Boldness and decision command, often even in evil, the respect and concurrence of mankind. Robert Dale Owen
evil i-can lurking
Evil's lurking, I can see him smirking. Tupac Shakur
evil noble deeds
The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed. Tacitus
evil quality lasts
We can never lose what is really ours. Who can lose his being? Who can lose his very existence? If I am good, it is the existence first, and then that becomes colored with the quality of goodness. If I am evil, it is the existence first, and that becomes colored with the quality of badness. That existence is first, last, and always; it is never lost but ever present. Swami Vivekananda
evil endurance resistance
The disciple must have great power of endurance. Bear all evil and misery without one thought of unhappiness, resistance, remedy, or retaliation. That is true endurance, and that you must acquire. Swami Vivekananda
evil credit blame
How absurd to take the credit of doing the good act on oneself and lay the blame for the evil act on the Lord! Swami Vivekananda
evil world doers
The attempt to remove evil from the world by killing a thousand evil - doers, only adds to the evil in the world. Swami Vivekananda
evil inexplicable
Don't stigmatize in a rush to explain inexplicable evil. Ron Fournier
evil people tears
Evil, in this system of ethics, is that which tears apart, shuts out the other person, raises barriers, sets people against each other. Rollo May
evil stories genocide
The story of U.S. policy during the genocide in Rwanda is not a story of willful complicity with evil. U.S. officials did not sit around and conspire to allow genocide to happen. Samantha Power
evil revolver standards
Anyone who maintains absolute standards of good and evil is dangerous. As dangerous as a maniac with a loaded revolver. Tom Robbins
evil mind trying
What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy. Tom Robbins
evil crap load
Don't be evil is a load of crap. Steve Jobs
evil venom malice
Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom. St. Jerome
evil mind world
The world's oldest wisdom: each evil thought infuses the mind, sooner or later, with an unholy fear. Sri Chinmoy
evil sometimes appearance
In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments. Rutherford B. Hayes
evil paradise vehicle
I had a definite sense of somehow being a passenger in an evil vehicle crusing through Paradise. Sam Shepard
evil abortion might
Is it logical to ask how far away are we from the pope explaining that abortion can be justified, "in certain circumstances, in certain regions," and if it might be related to the evils of American capitalism and our immigration policy? Rush Limbaugh
evil people pure-evil
There is no such thing as pure good or pure evil, least of all in people. Zedd