Evil Quotes - Page 129

If you want to do something evil, put it inside something boring.

Many have puzzled themselves about the origin of evil. I am content to observe that there is evil, and that there is a way to escape from it, and with this I begin and end.

But pain is perfect misery, the worst Of evils, and excessive, overturns All patience.

When the devil drives, needs must.

If you can get some of the devil's money to use for the Lord's work, if you have to borrow it, it is all right and carry on the work.

Life's sunniest hours are not without The shadow of some lingering doubt-- Amid its brightest joys will steal Spectres of evil yet to feel-- Its warmest love is blent with fears, Its confidence a trembling one-- Its smile--the harbinger of tears-- Its hope--the change of April's sun! A weary lot--in mercy given, To fit the chastened soul for heaven.

She didn't like the fact that she had reduced a man – no matter how evil he might be—to a drooling idiot.

I am devilishly afraid, that's certain; but ... I'll sing, that I may seem valiant.

He that doth righteousness; that is, righteousness which the gospel calleth so, is righteous; that is, precedent to, or before he doth that righteousness. For he doth not say, he shall make his person righteous by acts of righteousness that he shall do; for then an evil tree may bear good fruit, yea, and make itself good by doing so; but he saith, He that doth righteousness is righteous; as he saith, He that doth righteousness is born of him.

To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.

In the world we make good as evil and evil as good.

Usually people who are evil don't see themselves as evil.

So. You get handed a holy sword by an archangel, told to go fight the forces of evil, and you somehow remain an atheist. Is that what you're saying?

Government is an unnecessary evil.

The joys of the evil flow away like a torrent.

The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong.

A vain man finds his account in speaking good or evil of himself.

With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.

We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reason that psychologists study the minds of murderers and rapists... to understand how those evil things came about.

The true nature of evil is that it is so very casual.

Evil is a far more cunning and persevering propagandist than good, for it has no inward strength, and is driven to seek countenance and sympathy.

Evil springs up, and flowers, and bears no seed, And feeds the green earth with its swift decay, Leaving it richer for the growth of truth.

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

Nonviolence is the answer for the questions of our time. Love will conquer evil every time.

It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil.