Evil Quotations | Page 6

There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.

I wouldn't say jamie is an evil genius. I'm not sure he's evil and I'm not sure he's a genius.

One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

Now and then, someone would accuse me of being evil - of letting people destroy themselves while I watched, just so I could film them and tape-record them. But I didn't think of myself as evil - just realistic.

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so; life's business being just the terrible choice.

Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.

What twelve year old wouldn't want to play an evil wizard?

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.

If there is no God, the labels 'good' and 'evil' are merely opinions. They are substitutes for 'I like it' and 'I don't like it.' They are not objective realities.

Musically, there's a movement called the flatted fifth that's really evil-sounding. It was outlawed by the Catholic Church during the Middle Ages. That movement is what gives you a real evil sound that conjures up dark, fantastic images. It's like an audio horror movie. It personifies what a horror movie is about.

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

I think shareholders are the great evil of this modern world.

In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.

Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.

War is good when good survives and evil is crushed. If you don't crush evil then evil will get you.

My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.

I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.

The reason societies with democratic governments are better places to live in than their alternatives isn't because of some goodness intrinsic to democracy, but because its hopeless inefficiency helps blunt the basic potential for evil.

Oh yes, there's lots of great food in America. But the fast food is about as destructive and evil as it gets. It celebrates a mentality of sloth, convenience, and a cheerful embrace of food we know is hurting us.

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.

It has been said that people never do evil with more enthusiasm than when they do it in the name of God.

The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.

Sin, also for those who don't have faith, exists when one goes against one's conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

Evil is only imperfection, that which is not complete, which is becoming, but has not yet found its end.

Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil. You have to eliminate it and replace it with something that is good for all people and that something is democracy.

I don't doubt that God can bring good out of tragedies, but the Bible is clear that God is not the author of evil!

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil.

There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.

The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them. When Ronald Reagan called on Gorbachev to 'tear down this wall,' a surge of confidence rose that would ultimately breach the bounds of the evil empire.

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.

However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.

The evil influence of Satan would destroy any hope we have in overcoming our mistakes. ... In contrast, Jesus reaches down to us to lift us up. Through our repentance and the gift of the Atonement, we can prepare to be worthy to stand in His presence.

Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.

I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

Lord keep us all from sin. Teach us how to walk circumspectly; enable us to guard our minds against error of doctrine, our hearts against wrong feelings, and our lives against evil actions.

No evil can happen to a good man either in life or after death.

We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.

I've never doubted that apartheid - because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil - was going to bite the dust eventually.

You know George M. Steinbrenner III is the center of all evil in the universe.

There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.

You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I'm taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.

The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art

There comes a time when a human being has to either face evil or admit to allowing it. Abortion is legal in the United States, but it should not be celebrated or used as a political tool. Viable babies are human beings.

There is no possible source of evil except good.

The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.

Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.

One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.

All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

Bush sees the evil as out there in the wider world, residing in people who 'hate freedom'. Look at his immediate response to the pictures of prisoner abuse; this is not what Americans do, these are not our values.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.

The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

Rather than dividing the world between good and evil, the Left divided the world in terms of economics. Economic classes, not moral values, explained human behavior. Therefore, to cite a common example, poverty, not one's moral value system, or lack of it, caused crime.

I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.

It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?

To live without evil belongs only to the gods.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.

The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.

Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.