Evil Quotes - Page 117

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

The concept of portraying evil and then destroying it - I know this is considered mainstream, but I think it is rotten. This idea that whenever something evil happens someone particular can be blamed and punished for it, in life and in politics is hopeless.

I don't know what I would have done if I had had to work for a living.

You think that you can judge what's good or evil from whether you enjoy doing it or not. You think that evil is what always appears in the form of a temptation, while good is what you never spontaneously want to do. I think this is all total rubbish, if you don't mind my saying so.

Uncertainty and danger are always closely allied, thus making any kind of an unknown world a world of peril and evil possibilities.

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

Let us not esteem worldly prosperity or adversity as things real or of any moment, but let us live elsewhere, and raise all our attention to Heaven; esteeming sin as the only true evil, and nothing truly good, but virtue which unites us to God.

I have always felt as though I needed a weapon against evil.

They call television a medium because nothing's well done.

The ends and means are a seamless web.

The devil, you see, is that friend who never stays with us to the end.

The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since escaped.

Evil lurks where disappointment lodges.

As a single drop of water fills a bucket, so do small deeds of evil; as a single drop of water fills a bucket, so do small deeds of good.

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was the quarter from behind the ear gag. He would never put the time in.

I think there's a bit of the devil in everybody. There's a bit of a priest in everybody, too, but I enjoyed playing the devil more. He was more fun.

No, evidently habit means a lot. The devil knows what habit can do to a person.

When reason fails, the devil helps!

When our conscience bothers us, whether we admit it or not, we often try to justify it by correcting others, or by finding fault with them. The readiness to believe evil about others is in large part ammunition for a thousand scandals in our own hearts.

Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil.

Free will without fate is no more conceivable than spirit without matter, good without evil.

To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.

To combat the depression by a forced credit expansion is to attempt to cure the evil by the very means which brought it about.

The devil, he's about this big. He had a red suit on and a widow's peak, and then a pointed tail, and like a sulfur reek. Yes, it was him alright, I swear.