Evil Quotes - Page 124

You don’t knock on the devil’s door, boy, unless you want him to answer. (Ravyn)

It's the lack of humanity in the human psyche that haunts me. The hypocrisy. How people as a group can take something like tolerance and contort it into a new form of intolerance and conformity. The way humanity can justify any kind of evil.

Right now, my favorite game is Resident Evil 2.

Some there are that torment themselves afresh with the memory of what is past; others, again, afflict themselves with the apprehension of evils to come; and very ridiculously both - for the one does not now concern us, and the other not yet ... One should count each day as a separate life.

If thou wishest to get rid of thy evil propensities, thou must keep far from evil companions.

In all evils which admit a remedy, impatience is to be avoided, because it wastes that time and attention in complaints, that, if properly applied might remove the cause.

The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.

Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.

The aeroplane is an invention of the devil and will never play any part in such a serious business as the defence of the nation, my boy!

The problem of vindicating an omnipotent and omniscient God in the face of evil is insurmountable. Those who claim to have surmounted it, by recourse to notions of free will and other incoherencies, have merely heaped bad philosophy onto bad ethics.

What would our world be like if we ceased to worry about 'right' and 'wrong,' or 'good' and 'evil,' and simply acted so as to maximize well-being, our own and that of others? Would we lose anything important?

There are many poor men and poor women: set apart some one constantly to remain there: let the poor man be though but as a guard to thy house: let him be to thee wall and fence, shield and spear. Where alms are, the devil dares not approach, nor any other evil thing.

One of the most evil dispositions possible is that which satirizes and turns everything to ridicule. God abhors this vice, and has sometimes punished it in a marked manner

God Almighty would in no way permit evil in His works were He not so omnipotent and good that even out of evil He could work good.

Unfortunately our nation, nay, our world, is run by evil morons.

Self-esteem is the goddamn root of all evil.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

The snake stood up for evil in the Garden.

The devil's name is dullness.

Boldness and decision command, often even in evil, the respect and concurrence of mankind.

There are gods, but there is no God; and all gods become devils eventually.

Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

Obsessing on evil is boring. Rousing fear is a hackneyed shtick. Wallowing is despair is a bad habit. Indulging in cynicism is akin to committing a copycat crime.

Controversy, though always an evil in itself, is sometimes a necessary evil.

...the right of holding slaves is clearly established in the Holy Scriptures, both by precept and example... Had the holding of slaves been a moral evil, it cannot be supposed that the inspired Apostles ... would have tolerated it for a moment in the Christian Church. In proving this subject justifiable by Scriptural authority [Luke 12:47], its morality is also proved; for the Divine Law never sanctions immoral actions.