Evil Quotes - Page 132

We see God and the devil making fools of each other, and we nurture in ourselves the absolutely unshakable conviction that both of them are drunk.

The ultimate test ... to see the good in evil and the evil in good.

Of a young hermit, an old devil. [Fr., De jeune hermite, vieil diable.]

We often do shallow good in order to accomplish evil with impunity.

If you tell a woman she is beautiful, whisper it softly, for if the devil hears, he will echo it many times.

... so far from entrenching human conduct within the gentle barriers of peace and love, religion has ever been, and now is, the deepest source of contentions, wars, persecutions for conscience sake, angry words, angry feelings, backbitings, slanders, suspicions, false judgments, evil interpretations, unwise, unjust, injurious, inconsistent actions.

No true Latter-day Saint and no true American can be a socialist or a communist or support programs leading in that direction. These evil philosophies are incompatible with Mormonism, the true gospel of Jesus Christ.

I also believe, without any supporting evidence, that cats are evil.

Good and bad may not be dissevered; There is, as there should be, a commingling.

People always try to find base motives behind every good action. We are afraid of pure goodness and of pure evil.

Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers and the sense of unaliveness. Among the evils of life, there are few which are as painful as boredom, and consequently every attempt is made to avoid it.

Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist.

Whatsoever causes no annoyance when it is present, causes only a groundless pain in the expectation. Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not. It is nothing, then, either to the living or to the dead, for with the living it is not and the dead exist no longer.

There is nothing to fear from gods, There is nothing to feel in death, Good can be attained, Evil can be endured.

Shall I show you the sinews of a philosopher? What sinews are those? - A will undisappointed; evils avoided; powers daily exercised; careful resolutions; unerring decisions.

Against specious appearances we must set clear convictions, bright and ready for use. When death appears as an evil, we ought immediately to remember that evils are things to be avoided, but death is inevitable.

Everywhere and always, since its very inception, Christianity has turned the earth into a vale of tears; always it has made of life a weak, diseased thing, always it has instilled fear in man, turning him into a dual being, whose life energies are spent in the struggle between body and soul. In decrying the body as something evil, the flesh as the tempter to everything that is sinful, man has mutilated his being in the vain attempt to keep his soul pure, while his body rotted away from the injuries and tortures inflicted upon it.

So far any one shuns evils, so far as he does good.

A hard headed woman, a soft hearted man, been the cause of trouble ever since the world began.

They say that God makes problems just to see what you can stand, before you do as the devil pleases.

Dr. Oaks made the remark that, according to the best estimate he could make, there were four hundred murders annually produced by abortion in that county alone....There must be a remedy for such a crying evil as this.

Of what use to destroy the children of evil? It is evil itself we must destroy at the roots.

It's no use crying over spilt evils. It's better to mop them up laughing.

This is the essential evil of vice: it debases a man.

In some way the secret vice exhales its poison; and the evil passion, however cunningly masked, stains through to the surface.