Evil Quotes - Page 106

What is forgotten cannot be healed, and that which cannot be healed easily becomes the cause of greater evil.

It must be remembered that there is no real reason to expect anything in particular from mankind; good and evil are local expedients - or their lack - and not in any sense cosmic truths or laws.

The doctrine that the cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy is like saying that the cure of crime is more crime.

I do not believe I have any immortality. The greatest evil in the world today is the Christian religion

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he can’t play; and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is donkey enough to die in harness. But the Englishman, as he has since become, works until he can pretend that he never worked at all.

Everyone dies whether one is good in their lifetime or evil in their lifetime. So virtue has no payback. Life is meaningless. When you die, you die!

If we had not been dealing with the devil in person, we could have saved Algeria.

The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible.

Offensive acts come back upon the evil doer, like dust that is thrown against the wind.

The gods spend the wealth the universe gathers, they scan the wonders and fling them to nothingness. That's why they're the gods! I told you they were devils.

Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.

Pleasure and pain, the good and the bad, are so intermixed that we can not shun the one without depriving ourselves of the other.

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

Ambition is not in itself an evil; nor is he to be condemned whose spirit prompts him to seek fame by worthy and honourable ways.

It is not enough simply to try to resist evil or empty our lives of sin. We must also fill our lives with righteousness

If there is one single reason why good people turn evil, it is because they fail to recognize God’s ownership over their kingdom, their vocation, their resources, their abilities, and above all their lives.

Denounce useless guilt. Don’t make a cult of suffering. Live in the now(or at least the soon). Always do the things you fear most. Courage is an acquired taste like caviar. Trust all joy. If the evil eye fixes you in its gaze, look elsewhere. Get ready to be 87.

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.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

However much I have frequented the mystics, deep down I have always sided with the Devil; unable to equal him in power, I have tried to be worthy of him, at least, in insolence, acrimony, arbitrariness and caprice.

I'm lonely like Adam and you're evil like Eve.

How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!

Remembering is a noble and necessary act. The call of memory, the call to memory, reaches us from the very dawn of history. No commandment figures so frequently, so insistently, in the Bible. It is incumbent upon us to remember the good we have received, and the evil we have suffered.

It is very easy to make wild generalizations about Islam. All you have to do is read almost any issue of The New Republic and you'll see there the radical evil that's associated with Islam, the Arabs as having a depraved culture, and so forth. These are impossible generalizations to make in the United States about any other religious or ethnic group.