Evil Quotes
There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
It was when Lucifer first congratulated himself upon his angelic behavior that he became the tool of evil.
Conversations I have had with school principals and students lead me to the same conclusion-that...there is an evil and growing habit of profanity and the use of foul and filthy language.
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.
The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL; but as the inscription was on the outside, the prisoners could not read it.
Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all.
Your only gain is to try to get me to fall down to your level. Man, you worser than devils.
Of all evils of war the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth, the artificial conflict.
Any new technology, if it's used by evil people, bad things can happen. But that's more a question of the politics of the technology.
The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
The evil was not in either ideal; the evil was in the attempt to impose that ideal by force upon others.
Good with out evil is like light with out darkness which in turn is like righteousness whith out hope.
Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either - but right through every human heart...
God’s holiness, then, is not only the opposite of evil; it is the measure by which we know evil to be evil.
Mr. Chairman, when I contemplate the evils of apartheid, my heart bleeds and I am sure the heart of every true blooded African bleeds.
The fall of man did not introduce evil; it placed us on the wrong side of it, under its rule, needing rescue.
As a means of motivating people to be cruel or inhumane-as a means of inciting evil, to borrow the vocabulary of the devout-there may be no more potent force than religion.
I do not believe Tony Blair was a fundamentally good man who went bad. I believe he was evil in the first place.
Motives are better than actions. Men drift into crime. Of evil they do more than they contemplate, and of good they contemplate more than they do.
It is mercy, not justice or courage or even heroism, that alone can defeat evil.
People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.
Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.
Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.
Laughter is a powerful weapon for it carries the light. To laugh is to defy the darkness.
I have been all men known to history, Wondering at the world and at time passing; I have seen evil, and the light blessing Innocent love under a spring sky.
There have been 50 or 60 books written about Empress Orchid, but none of them bothered to really examine the period in China when she lived. I was taught that she was evil; it's in all the textbooks.
There is no evil that the father’s love cannot pardon and cover, there is no sin that is a match for his grace.
The more one is absorbed in fighting evil, the less one is tempted to place the good in question.
While there is no one who hasn't an evil bone in their body, there is also no one who is totally evil to the core. the fact that someone harbors opposing emotions simply makes them human.
It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors.
It used to be widely held that evil was incompatible with the existence of God: that no possible world contained both God and evil. So far as I am able tell, this thesis is no longer defended
To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.
Evil is done in hopes that evil surrenders, but the deeds of the devil are burned too deep in the embers, and world of hunger in vengeance will always remember.
Our proportionate admission of the claims of good or of evil determines the harmony of our existence, - our health, our longevity, and our Christianity.
You almost felt sorry for the devil cause heaven knows he didn't have a prayer, when Mama prayed.
The evil which one suffers patiently as inevitable seems insupportable as soon as he conceives the idea of escaping from it.
