Evil Quotes - Page 112

Although every organized religion works overtime to contribute its own brand of misogyny to the myth of woman-hate, woman-fear, and woman-evil, the Roman Catholic church also carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion, and by its use of skillful and wealthy lobbies to prevent legislative change. It is an obscenity-an all-male hierarchy, celibate or not, that presumes to rule on the lives and bodies of millions of women.

Boredom and stupidity and patriotism, especially when combined, are three of the greatest evils of the world we live in.

It's wiser being good than bad; It's safer being meek than fierce: It's fitter being sane than mad.

The most dangerous flaws are those which are good in moderation," she said. "Evil is easy to fight. Lack of wisdom… that is very hard indeed.

It is fashionable to wax apocalyptic about the threat to humanity posed by the AIDS virus, "mad cow" disease, and many others, but I think a case can be made that faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.

If it is solely an evolutionary convenience, there is really no such thing as good or evil.

Foxes are rats in expensive coats. What are foxes associated with? Evil, wily, conniving, duplicitous, Fox News - worst news service on the planet and the evilest.

If patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, it is not merely because evil deeds may be performed in the name of patriotism, but because patriotic fervor can obliterate moral distinctions altogether.

We tend to misunderstand the colour black, seeing it as evil, or negation of life. Rather, black means all things being possible, infinite energy of life before consciousness has constructed any boundaries. When we fear blackness or darkness we fear the deep unconscious source of life itself.

What greater evil could you wish a miser, than long life?

From it (the Rosary) the young will draw fresh energy with which to control the rebellious tendencies to evil and to preserve intact the stainless purity of the soul. Also in it, the old will again find repose, relief, and peace from their anxious cares. And to all those who suffer in any way, especially the dying, may it bring comfort and increase the hope of eternal happiness.

The Cross is the Word through which God has responded to evil in the world.

Drug addiction is an evil, and with evil there can be no yielding or compromise.

It is a symbol evoking a reality that touches the depths of the person ... the light of goodness that vanquishes evil, of love that overcomes hatred, of life that defeats death.

To do an evil action is base; to do a good action without incurring danger is common enough; but it is the part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks every thing.

Lord of Lords, grant us the good whether we pray for it or not, but evil keep from us, even though we pray for it.

You may be sure, dear Crito, that inaccurate language is not only in itself a mistake: it implants evil in men's souls.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

The most evil person I ever met was a toss-up between Pablo Picasso and the publisher-crook Robert Maxwell.

Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power - power to do good or evil. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.

The whole economy of this lower world proves that it is by labor and perseverance only that good is obtained and evil is avoided.

Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. They were under the heel of the French... and they got together and swore a pact to the devil.

When I was growing up, we were taught in school that North Koreans, and especially the North Korean leadership, were all devils.

Everything evil is revenge.

There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful.